SYNOPSIS: When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life’s misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying …
Read More »Film Review: Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (2013)
SYNOPSIS: From the people that brought you Steve Niles’ Remains and Dead Souls comes a terrifying new anthology film based on the human senses… REVIEW: When sitting down to watch a movie called Chilling Visions: 5 Senses in Fear, the mind races at what this could possibly be about, and if you take the title for it’s most literal meaning, …
Read More »Film Review: The Last Broadcast (1998)
SYNOPSIS: Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect in the disappearances of the other two. However, a local filmmaker examines extensive footage found at the scene and …
Read More »Film Review: Scarecrow (2013)
SYNOPSIS: For generations, it was an urban legend that lived in the nightmares of children. Now, the season to rejuvenate the tale will revive a town’s darkest fears. REVIEW: “It never sleeps, it never dies, it can’t be stopped, hear our cries. The scarecrow lives to kill us all, keep it buried in the fall.” This is the rhyme of …
Read More »Film Review: City of Rott (2006)
SYNOPSIS: Desperately losing his mind while searching for a new pair of shoes, an old man and his trusty Walker wander the City of Rott, saturated with thousands of rotting zombies, driven to feed the blood-hungry worms residing in their skulls. REVIEW: As a horror fan one of the things I always look forward to each year are the few …
Read More »Film Review: Devoured (2012) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: You Will Be Devoured… REVIEW: Devoured is a great psychological thriller, which makes you think about the way the world thinks about us and us about them. With that said, this movie starts out with the main character, Lourdes (Marta Milans), dead on the floor of a Manhattan restaurant. Now the fun starts as we try to figure out …
Read More »Film Review: WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Originally broadcast live on October 31, 1987, the ‘WNUF Halloween Special’ is a stunning expose of terrifying supernatural activity that unfolded at the infamous Webber House, the site of ghastly murders. Local television personality Frank Stewart leads a group of paranormal investigators including Catholic exorcist, Father Joseph Matheson and the prolific husband-and-wife team Louis and Claire Berger. Together, the …
Read More »Top 10 Sequels that Shouldn’t have Been Made
Sequels in the movie industry are a fickle thing, they can add great plot points and depth to characters, or they can almost drag a franchise into the ground. Everyone can think of at least one or two sequels that might even be better than the originals (though this is really few and far between), but what about those additions …
Read More »Top 5 Best and Worst Horror Films of Mid-2015
Top 5 Best/ Worst Horror Movies of Mid-2015 As June is ready to roll into July it means that we have not only officially hit summer, but that the year is already half over. I know everyone usually waits to do a year end top 10 list, but what the hey, half the years already gone so why not a …
Read More »Film Review: Mischief Night (2013) Review 2
SYNOPSIS: Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother’s life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder. REVIEW: Mischief night, the night when teenagers run rampant, pulling pranks and playing tricks. Most common among these antics are toilet papering …
Read More »Film Review: Dead Fury (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Animated parody of such horror classics as “Evil Dead” and “The Hills Have Eyes”. REVIEW: Frank Sudol’s first animated undertaking he showed use the humor in the zombie apocalypse, how would he fair as he takes his characters out of the big city and drops them in secluded forest. This is the location for his next movie, Dead Fury, …
Read More »Film Review: Low (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A lonely city girl finds herself taken hostage by disturbed outsider. Miles from home she must not only escape her captor, but also protect a dark and dangerous secret. REVIEW: Low is a low budget psychological thriller indie that plays on the concept that you really don’t know the true person that you are talking to. Yes people might …
Read More »Film Review: The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community REVIEW: It’s not uncommon to see horror movies made in foreign counties and then brought over to the United States. The most common of these movies will usually …
Read More »Film Review: Joy Ride (2001)
SYNOPSIS: Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer. REVIEW: With this being the age of the internet, many people think that they can hide in the shadows of a fake name and not be held …
Read More »Film Review: Killer Holiday (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A startling motive is revealed when psychotic killer Melvin ‘Spider’ Holiday stalks 8 unsuspecting teenage victims lured to an abandoned amusement park off old Route 66 REVIEW: Killer Holiday is one of those movies that you start to watch with little to no expectations for, and you aren’t very surprised when it comes true. The first thing that you …
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