SYNOPSIS: Late one night a shopping centre receives an unexpected visitor, what begins as an act of kindness turns into a night of horror. REVIEW: Low budget film making has been a large part of movies for the past thirty years as camera equipment has become increasingly available. Camcorders are accessible for people who aren’t entrenched in the Hollywood system, …
Read More »Film Review: The Horde (2016)
SYNOPSIS: The film follows John Crenshaw as he accompanies his girlfriend and her students on a weekend nature-photography expedition deep into the woods. What should be an educational and fun-filled weekend turns into horror as the group is besieged by an unspeakable evil – a horde of hideously disfigured, mutated humans with an insatiable taste for blood. As things go …
Read More »Film Review: Drifter (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics. REVIEW: There’s a certain kind of storytelling in horror where a movie feels like it’s going one way and then it takes a hard left turn into the horrific events. As the viewer becomes comfortable with the story …
Read More »Film Review: The Sleeping Room (2014)
SYNOPSIS: A psychological gothic tale of Victorian revenge. REVIEW: In 2013, The Conjuring was released into theaters. It was a movie about a haunted house that captured the attention of the theater-going audiences. They loved the ghostly tale. But that mainstream horror flick is not the only recent movie that was based upon hauntings and ghosts. Many movies are released …
Read More »Film Review: The Swarm (1978)
SYNOPSIS: A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people. REVIEW: Throughout the 1970s, disaster movies were all the rage. The increase in popularity was thanks in large part to Irwin Allen, the man behind movies such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. He would hire a multitude of established …
Read More »Film Review: Don’t Hang Up (2016)
SYNOPSIS: While not in class, Brady (Garrett Clayton) and his best friend, Sam (Gregg Sulkin), spend their time making prank calls that they upload online to receive millions of views. As their online celebrity begins to rise, the boys escalate their pranks to a dangerous level. One evening, Brady and Sam receive a prank call of their own, igniting a …
Read More »Film Review: The Blackburn Asylum (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
Read More »Film Review: E.N.D. The Movie (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Day zero: When it all begins, in a funeral home. Day #1466: When the epidemic has already devoured the entire planet, set in a house in the woods. Day #2333: When the zombies have become something more than the monsters that we know, in a prison surrounded by post-apocalyptic scenarios. REVIEW: Zombies are all the rage. The undead flesh …
Read More »Film Review: Delusion (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Three years after the death of Frank’s wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall. REVIEW: Loss is powerful. It covers so many different aspects of our feelings for such a long time that it …
Read More »Film Review: Girl in Woods (2016)
SYNOPSIS: After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace’s struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past. Battling the demons in her mind may be the only way to come out alive.
Read More »Film Review: 5 Years After the Fall (2016)
SYNOPSIS: After an industrial disaster, the world’s food and water supplies are contaminated. The rich and powerful retreat into fortified cities where life goes on, undisturbed by the starving masses outside their walls. While the outside world slides into unspeakable madness, Jacob, an idealistic citizen is on his way to the inner sanctum with others hell-bent on revolution when their …
Read More »Film Review: Cassidy Way (2016)
SYNOPSIS: When a film student and her two friends go to Kern County to shoot a documentary, they stumble upon a mysterious family and learn why Pandora’s box should never have been opened.
Read More »Film Review: Area Q (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist whose world is turned upside-down when his son disappears, is sent to Brazil to investigate close encounter sightings. REVIEW: A man once approached me at work and said “It was my birthday a while ago. My friends asked me how old I was. I said 54. Then we looked at my birth certificate and …
Read More »Film Review: The Final Girls (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film’s maniacal killer. REVIEW: Nostalgia is pretty big in the movie world right now. The use of properties from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s …
Read More »Film Review: Charlie Charlie (2016)
SYNOPSIS: An Eccentric haunted house owner invites a group of hapless teens to play the terrifying game known as Charlie Charlie, overnight in the many attractions his house has to offer. While the game is meant to be a mere spectacle of spooky fun, it soon turns into a true nightmare leaving the teenagers, and the owner, battling for their …
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