Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A modern day adaption of the classic horror novel Dracula. REVIEW: As I’ve occasionally done on this site, I decided to see how many films have been released around the mythos of Dracula. Oh there are so many. So. Many. So many, I had to give up counting as my wife missed me, and the imaginary …
Read More »Film Review: Vice (2015)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Bruce Willis stars in this Sci-Fi thriller about ultimate resort: VICE, where customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look like humans. REVIEW: In the wild and wooly world of tomorrow, synthetic humans have been pretty much banned from all walks of society. Except sleazy CEO Bruce Willis, playing one of his finest …
Read More »Film Review: Awaken (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs. REVIEW: 1924’s The Hounds of Zaroff by Richard Connell is a story perhaps best known as The Most Dangerous Game. It’s the simple tale of a simple aristocrat with a simple desire: …
Read More »Film Review: Dreamkatcher (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In order to stop his bad dreams a young boy steals a dreamcatcher from a mysterious neighbor forcing his family to rescue him from a nightmarish entity. REVIEW: Violence against children can be a bitter pill to swallow for some in films. Even in horror, a flash of brutality towards a young innocent can uncork a …
Read More »Film Review: Devil’s Acid (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A drunk father is telling his son a bedtime story about a group of people spending the night at a haunted prison, where they all take “Devil’s Acid”. They then start having problems differentiating between reality and the trip. REVIEW: Have you seen The Princess Bride? Did you enjoy the Fred Savage whimsy of its meta …
Read More »Film Review: Cry Havoc (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rogue police officer takes on a serial killer who murders at call REVIEW: You might not know the name Robert Bronzi (Once Upon a Time in Deadwood), but you’ll know his face. In fact, you could argue that you’ve seen his face on someone else. Charles Bronson, to be exact. Yes, since 2017, the Hungarian …
Read More »Film Review: For Jennifer (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jennifer, Stefanie, and Joey are making a movie. But soon the lines between what is a movie and what is real begin to disappear. And when making a horror movie, that can be a difference between life and death. REVIEW: One of the gimmicks in Tom Six’s Human Centipede trilogy – outside of sewing mouths to …
Read More »Film Review: Cabal (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A military assassin is hired to hunt down and eliminate a bloodthirsty serial killer who is committing murders in a forbidden forest. REVIEW: As a kid, do you ever imagine how it would go down if The Flash and Superman raced each other? Yeah? Course you did. Later in life, did you yearn for the day …
Read More »Film Review: The 5th Wave (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. REVIEW: With Katniss having hung up her bow and arrows in the final Hunger Games film last year, and the Divergent series dying a slow, painful death, could The 5th Wave …
Read More »Film Review: Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
SYNOPSIS: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her. REVIEW: Within five minutes of Before I Go to Sleep starting, it sets up its stall and asks you to buy into what it’s selling. You can …
Read More »Film Review: Door to the Other Side (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor. REVIEW: Not many people would truly say they wouldn’t help someone in a bind should the occasion arise. Reaching out to our neighbors in their times of need is what alleviates us above animals. It makes your neighbor feel good, it makes you feel …
Read More »Film Review: Ava’s Possessions (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A young woman recovers from a demonic possession. REVIEW: Ava (Louisa Krause) has a had a really rough month. Not rough as in having to work late, breaking up with your partner, losing your favorite earrings and forgetting to record Game of Thrones; we’re demon possession rough. For 28 days, Ava has been running hell-bent across her hometown, attacking …
Read More »Film Review: Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A small town news team discovers a box of video tapes where a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family… slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the “Operator” has begun to stalk them as well. REVIEW: Created by Eric Knudsen in 2009, the Slender Man has become a phenomenon, inspiring numerous …
Read More »Film Review: The Jack in the Box (2019)
SYNOPSIS: When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it’s new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of it’s own. REVIEW: The Conjuring cinematic universe has had a good go at making the everyday and mundane seem scary. Whether we’re talking about houses in The Conjuring, nuns in The Nun, or England …
Read More »Film Review: One Must Fall (2018)
SYNOPSIS: A horror-comedy slasher set in the 80’s about a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene cleanup crew. With a maniacal serial killer on the loose leaving them lots of work, did he ever leave the scene of the crime? REVIEW: Ah, the old 9 to 5. …
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