Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The step on the housing ladder becomes the first step on the path to hell REVIEW: When the official Synopsis of a film is as barebones as the above, you know the film you’re about to watch isn’t going to be a good one, and in this sense, and this sense alone, Millennial Killer didn’t disappoint. …
Read More »Film Review: The 9th Precinct (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An idealistic cop joins an underground police unit and battles ghoulish forces threatening the balance between the human and the supernatural realms REVIEW: <SPOILER ALERT> Our hero is Chen (Roy Chiu). A police officer with the ability to see dead people. When he’s saved by a spirit and tells his chief about it, he is promptly …
Read More »Film Review: Hunter’s Moon (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sheriff makes a strange discovery when he gets called to an orchard where three teenage sisters have been attacked by a band REVIEW: After we witness the gruesome death (I presume, as it’s off screen) of a serial killer in his orchard, we meet an average city family who move into said killer’s “old farmhouse”, …
Read More »Film Review: Mad House (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A successful businessman, with a wife and daughter, has his happy home life destroyed when three junkies hold his family hostage and use his personal information against him. REVIEW: Found footage was once the poster child of horror, but is now the overbearing uncle who wears the same tacky bargain basement suit and says the same …
Read More »Film Review: Stillwater (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A weekend camping trip among six old friends in Northern Minnesota’s “Boundary Waters” turns tragic after one dies under mysterious circumstances, triggering further turmoil as they attempt to unmask the killer within their own group. REVIEW: What do you get when you mix a bunch of mates who have a weird fetish for mottos, drugs, PTSD …
Read More »Film Review: Reawakened (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Michele Chadwick’s best friend Sophia accidentally awakens the spirit of a malevolent witch that died centuries ago, Michele has to find a way to save her soul from eternal damnation. REVIEW: Steffani Brass plays Michele, the “lucky” survivor of a camping trip gone awry. As she recounts the events to Detective Henderson (Chantelle Albers), we …
Read More »Film Review: Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms. REVIEW: Right off the bat I am presuming you watched this film’s predecessor, The Boy. I will be spoiling said film and this sequel somewhat as it is kinda required to properly review Brahms: The Boy …
Read More »Film Review: Sniper Corpse (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The undead are former militia soldiers that are now indestructible snipers. A widow goes looking for the body of her husband but comes across a corpse that wants to end his new unjust life. REVIEW: Beginning with an opening title card reminiscent of a Commodore 64 game, Sniper Corpse tries to hook us in “Latvia”, where …
Read More »Film Review: The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Teenager Isabel Mann is seduced by a violent sect of day-walking vampires. Her classmates start to go missing, attracting two detectives.Things get weird as the disturbed teenager kills at will in the nearby woods. She’s aided by head vampire Alejo, and eerily by Isabel’s lost mother, an earlier recruit. She’s trained in the art of the …
Read More »Film Review: The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters, but not for his awkward sister Jordan who is transformed into a werewolf after being contaminated with lycan infected blood. REVIEW: If you’re looking for a family friendly comedy/horror that’s perfect for a Sunday afternoon with …
Read More »Film Review: The Wicked Within (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a year passes since the sudden death of a child, a family gathering takes place whilst peculiar unexplainable events occur REVIEW: The Wicked Within, one of After Dark’s “8 Films to Die For” 2015, is a possession-based horror that starts off really strong but then sprawls into a generic possession film with oddly acting characters …
Read More »Film Review: Muirhouse (2012)
SYNOPSIS In 2007 author Phillip Muirhouse was left alone in a haunted homestead called ‘Monte Cristo’. He was there making a documentary that was to accompany his latest book. He also broke the rule of all ghost hunters…. Never Be Alone. REVIEW To me, the found footage ghost/possession/supernatural film is the lowest common denominator of horror film making. It uses …
Read More »Film Review: The Complex (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A guilt-ridden nursing student moves into an apartment complex with her family and is soon plagued by ghosts and her past. REVIEW: Director: Hideo Nakata Writers: Jun’ya Katô, Ryûta Miyake Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Masanobu Katsumura Director Hideo Nakata is no stranger to a good old fashioned horror story having directed the Ringu series and Dark Water. I …
Read More »Film Review: Zombie eXs (2012)
SYNOPSIS: The newest fad in H2O drinks turns a lady’s man’s many ex girlfriends into zombies who have one idea – getting back together with him dead or alive. REVIEW: Director: George Smith Writers: Jean Cohen & George Smith Stars: Alex Hammel-Shaver, Madison Hart, Scott Keebler I dig me a good comedy-horror. Love them. Cherish them. To me, there’s nothing …
Read More »Film Review: Silent Retreat (2013) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat, in the woods, for rehabilitation, only to realize that the men who run it are brainwashing women, and if she breaks the rules, she’ll discover what lurks beyond the trees.
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