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Film Review: ClownDoll (2019)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After purchasing a doll, Lane’s life takes a turn for the worse when close friends and family begin vanishing. REVIEW: Not great…not completely unwatchable either. Its got a “cheap” feel to it. Poorly written script (like why in the hell would she buy the doll in the first place?). The acting feels forced and wooden. None …

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Film Review: Howl (2015)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A passenger train crew and its passengers are stuck on a rail, in the snow. A creature is stalking the train as the passengers and crew struggle to be free, but freedom will be found elsewhere. REVIEW: The review: Why do they keep making werewolf films? The old classic ones are fun despite the poor effects. …

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Film Review: Sputnik (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The lone survivor of an enigmatic Russian spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. REVIEW: Most horror fans will agree, I can say based on my travels, that space and aliens are excellent themes for horror movies. Of course, Ridley Scott’s original “Alien” made the hair stand up on …

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Film Review: The Retreat (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man finds himself alone and lost after a horrifying encounter with a monster during a backpacking trip into the Adirondack High Peaks. Now, he must fight for his life, and sanity, as he battles the evil Native American legend, The Wendigo. REVIEW: The concept of a Wendigo waiting in the forest for two unsuspecting climbers …

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Film Review: Possessor (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients. REVIEW: As many reviewers have said, this is an interesting new take on the possession genre. Who can deny the influence of David Cronenberg. His son Brandon …

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Film Review: Archons (2018)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Archons is the story of falling-from-grace rock group, Sled Dog, half a decade after the release of their hit single, Backfire. After a chance encounter with rock-legend and life-long idol, Emerson Gilmore, Eric is willing to take one more chance at success, the way Emerson Gilmore did it back in the 70s—out in the Canadian mountains …

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Film Review: Black Box (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Black Box” is about a man struggling to regain his memory after surviving a tragic car accident. Desperate to return to his former self while trying to raise his daughter, he receives an experimental treatment that helps him probe into a past which suddenly feels too dark to be his own. REVIEW: Let me establish here …

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Film Review: Transference (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Joshua must protect his twin-sister, Emma, who possesses supernatural abilities and keep her safe from an unstoppable secret agent hunting them for an experiment in a classified government program. REVIEW: I know many of you horror fans out there like superhero films. Maybe this was aimed at you because I don’t particularly like them and this …

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Film Review: Choke (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An attractive young women enters the world of a serial killer by having sex with him and being strangled. She lives and her story intertwines with many other lonely characters in this self-professed horror film that revolves around sexual choking and homicide. REVIEW: Review: Watching a horror movie that looks homemade is fine but the impact …

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Film Review: Ghosts of War (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield. REVIEW: Review: This film is on Amazon Prime Video currently, at time of writing this. I’m happy to review …

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