SYNOPSIS: Lucy has a new husband, a new home and a new baby, but old ghosts won’t let her be. She tries to help the tortured souls break free of their torment and move on, but soon finds these ghosts don’t want her help REVIEW: When looking at the genre of horror, it’s easily the most diverse genre in cinema. …
Read More »Film Review: Nightscape (2012)
SYNOPSIS: In Nightscape, an emotionally guarded drifter, Kat (Galesh), crosses paths with a phantom car responsible for a wave of supernatural violence. The drifter must learn to trust again if she is to end a lifetime of bad luck and help her new found companions survive the growing chaos and carnage. REVIEW: Being a movie lover, and especially horror movies, …
Read More »Film Review: The Black Dahlia Haunting (2012)
SYNOPSIS: While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as “The Black Dahlia”. REVIEW: I’m sure that writer/director Brandon Slagle had a vision when it came to this project, and I would think that he was probably pretty happy with the way the …
Read More »Film Review: Forgetting the Girl (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Haunted by a traumatic history, photographer Kevin Wolfe (Christopher Denham) struggles to systematically forget all his bad memories, but erasing his past threatens to consume his future. Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul, creating more awkward experiences than he …
Read More »Film Review: Fresh Meat (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional gang of criminals invade the home of a middle class Maori family and take them hostage. But this seemingly normal family has a deep, dark secret and when the fugitives discover the home abattoir, the tables are turned and the hunters become the hunted. There’s fresh meat for dinner (washed down with a nice Chianti of course).
Read More »Film Review: Savages Crossing (2011)
SYNOPSIS: When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside. REVIEW: Savages Crossing is an Australian cat and mouse thriller written by brother and sister duo, John and Cody Jarrett, and directed by Australian born Kevin James Dobson. The …
Read More »Film Review: The Impaler (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Seven high-school friends begin their Euro-trip at the actual castle of Vlad the Impaler where he supposedly sold his soul to the devil over 500 years earlier, but the decrepit castle’s past envelopes them in a bloody ritual. REVIEW: The Impaler, the name makes you think of only one thing, Vlad the impaler, the man that inspired the famous …
Read More »Film Review: The Employer (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature …
Read More »Film Review: Exhumed (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A warped and mysterious family are unable to leave the house they reside in for unknown reasons. When this strange brood decide to turn their captivity into a sick and violent game, it challenges their very reality and puts all of their lives in great jeopardy. REVIEW: Right from the opening credit sequence, you can tell that Exhumed, a …
Read More »Film Review: Darkness Falls (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before. REVIEW: What do you get when you take a beloved children’s tale, the Tooth Fairy, and mix it together with one …
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