Rate This Movie 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: When I was, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled couple’s lives descend into violence and madness after a demonic entity takes their daughter. REVIEW: One of the many things that separate the indie filmmaker from his or her mainstream brethren is the refreshing lack of mass market and money pressure that is forced on them. They are free to make their complete vision, …

KN: Talk about your up-bringing in Southern California with your stunt driver dad. SM: Okay, I guess for me it was that my dad did a lot of tv shows, those 70s and 80s series. There was Hardcastle and McCormick. There was the A-Team there was the Fall Guy. He did a lot of mechanics work on them. Also did …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. REVIEW: “I don’t believe in using too much graphic violence, although I’ve done it. It’s better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to …

Saving the World From Under the Radar: A Tribute to the Forgotten Superheroes and Their Ninety-Minute Spotlights on Film Whether it was collecting comics since I was about six or sitting glued in front of tv and theater screens transfixed by the exploits of everyone from George Reeves as Superman to Adam West’s perfect for kids tv portrayal of Batman …

The Death’s Parade Film Festival (DPFF) has revealed its First Wave of film selections for its inaugural run on October 5th, 2019. The festival will feature short films from around the world with an emphasis on paranormal, psychological and body horror, found footage, experimental, killers, monsters, zombies, gore, and dark comedy. The First Wave exemplifies the spooky quality attendees can …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle. REVIEW: Minimalism has always been an intriguing angle for filming to me. It doesn’t always work, but is something of an ambitious leap in the attempting by the directing artist. It usually comes by way of two happenstances: either by creative design or financial necessity. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set ten years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts. REVIEW: Each of us has dealt with grief at one time or another and in varying degrees. Singular or multiple and, on occasion, all at once. In each instance, a staggering blow to both mind and body for even …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A bachelor party in the woods gets crashed by the ultimate party animal. REVIEW: One of the pure joys of reviewing independent film is that it’s a sub-level of film making that isn’t inhibited as much by the parameters set by financial backers of the big budget mainstream industry. The companies with the gajillion (not a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. REVIEW: Remember this dilly from your history of idioms learned from both life and school: “the blind leading the blind”? It’s kind of the one that tends to have the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Karla Marks mysteriously vanishes while conducting a paranormal investigation with her husband. A year after her disappearance, a group of paranormal investigators attempt to uncover the truth about her disappearance.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is sent challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise. REVIEW: I’m not a particular fan of the 2004 movie Saw (technically well made but relentlessly cold and nihilistic) and I find …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After atmospheric catastrophes send Los Angeles into chaos, three groups of survivors who escaped the city must put aside their differences to face a series of apocalyptic events. As they learn to work together they are faced with an even greater nightmare, giant gravity swells that contain thousands of giant killer bees, intent on ushering in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. REVIEW: A reasoned person would not necessarily need a lecture by Al Gore or Erin Brockovich to be enlightened on the fact that our constant reliance on chemical products unleashes a particularly severe level of harm to not just our ecological system …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man’s struggle to come to grips with his deteriorating mental state stemming from losing the love of his life. REVIEW: Though I’ve yet to witness the unrelenting grip of grief (it lands on each of us at some point, the spin of the bottle not resting in my direction yet), I can grasp at some …