Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson’s spirit into her unborn child but end up summoning more than they bargained for. REVIEW: I love going into a film and having my expectations turned upside down for the better. That feeling of being surprised …
Read More »Film Review: Fatale (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled in a cunning police detective’s latest investigation. REVIEW: Derrick Tyler (Michael Ealy) is a successful self-made LA sports agent with fancy cars and a fancy home. Everything is going well for him, except his marriage, so when Derrick goes on a Vegas trip with the …
Read More »Film Review: Synchronic (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. REVIEW: Genre cinema specialists, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead helm another genre mashing foray with Synchronic, a film about friendship, loss, life, drugs and time travel. SOME SPOILERS AHEAD: New Orleans …
Read More »Film Review: Riders On the Storm (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Terror strikes when a lonely driver picks up a hitchhiker on a dark road. REVIEW: I don’t mind the odd one-locale film every now and again. It’s a very difficult feat to pull off. Minimal locations, characters and cameras make it pivotal that the script, dialog and acting is absolutely perfect otherwise it’s a dull affair. …
Read More »Film Review: 8ight After (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night REVIEW: CCTV/Found Footage horror was a novel idea once. For a brief moment in its life-span, this sub-genre was the golden child of Horror and breathed new life into it, even making …
Read More »Film Review: Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A research team trying to prove supernatural theories about a crew’s disappearance on the merchant ship “the Mary Celeste”, discover more than they anticipated. REVIEW: Based on an actual legend, the Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. It was found slightly disheveled but in a …
Read More »Film Review: Freaky (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent. REVIEW: There’s been countless iterations of the Body Swap trope. It’s a basic setup with limitless potential. Show your two characters’ lives, swap them up, shenanigans ensue, they learn about …
Read More »Film Review: No Escape (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. REVIEW: A story needs to have characters that are relatable to the viewer. Likeable to them, so they …
Read More »Film Review: Spell (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon. REVIEW: Marquis (Omari Hardwick) is making every effort to be the man his father …
Read More »Film Review: The Exorcism of Molly Hartley (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS Taking place years after The Haunting of Molly Hartley, who now, as an adult, has fallen under the possession of an evil spirit and must be exorcised by a fallen priest before the devil completely takes her. REVIEW: Exorcism films are a “seen one, seen them all” bag of tricks so a lot of effort is …
Read More »Film Review: The Craft: Legacy (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of high school students form a coven of witches. A sequel to the 1996 film, “The Craft”. REVIEW: A sequel in the loosest of terms, The Craft: Legacy, written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, lacks the danger and magic of its predecessor, with a script that races through its runtime at breakneck speed with …
Read More »Film Review: Fear Pharm (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four people enter a corn maze for Halloween and are picked off one by one by the twisted family who own the scare attraction. REVIEW: A family who kills together stays together Well, that’s the case with Fear Pharm, a film who puts the PH in farm. I was immediately surprised by the production value. This …
Read More »Film Review: Kingdom of Var (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS College student Sonja summons the demonic sorcerer Var after viewing a 500-year-old film containing his spirit. REVIEW: What happens when you cross The Ring, Army of Darkness and House of the Devil? Probably a decent film, unfortunately Kingdom of Var is not due to many, many flaws from start to finish.
Read More »Film Review: The Dead Ones (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While serving detention for a horrific incident, four students are locked in a school and hunted by a gang dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While fighting to survive, each student must confront past traumas. REVIEW: I was always told patience is a virtue, and this saying holds true for The Dead Ones. The …
Read More »Film Review: Host (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. REVIEW: I’ll be honest, when I saw that Host takes place in COVID lockdown and is based off a painfully realistic Zoom call, I was dying to slam my …
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