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 …
Read More »Film Review: Morbid Colors (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tale of two foster sisters forced to hunt down a wealthy socialite believed to have infected the elder sibling with vampirism. REVIEW: There are the cinema entries in the horror realm that offer hope in the darkness. There are those that lean heavily toward the bleak and unrelenting aura. There are even genre efforts where …
Read More »Film Review: Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On the last flight of a transatlantic passenger airliner, a priest, a rabbi and the airline crew team together to save a plane from a pandemic of demonic possessions. REVIEW: Until now, I had thought the singularly distinctive example of the supernatural horror/air disaster mish-mosh was 1973’s made-for-tv The Horror at 37,000 Feet. Essentially it was …
Read More »Kidnappings, Demonic Possession: Jonathan Cartwright Expounds on What in the Horror Realm Can Test the Friendship Bonds With Demu
What gets me most excited and energized to write about horror films and genre media are the instances where I am allowed to chart the growth of newcomer artists who have found their voices through digital films, festivals and internet streaming. Situations where I can say “I knew this person when they were just starting out with their cell phone …
Read More »Scared: the Documentary – William Mitchem and Nightmare Closet Productions Present
Finding the Fear That Drives the Fearmakers: William Mitchem and Nightmare Closet Productions Present: Scared: the Documentary Horror, a genre that is meant to create a sense of being SCARED – fear, panic, alarm, and dread for those that consume it’s works, whether it be in the form of film, literature, music, or whatever the creator has made. These works …
Read More »Film Review: Cute Little Buggers (2017)
SYNOPSIS: From the Director of ‘DEADTIME’ and ‘Crying Wolf’ comes Cute Little Buggers! Will you let them take our women? It’s Gremlins meets Hot Fuzz set in the English countryside. When hostile aliens crash land on local farmland the villagers at the summer ball get suspicious when young women start going missing. The villagers soon band together around our hero …
Read More »Film Review: Fighting the Sky (2018)
SYNOPSIS: Strange other-worldly sounds are echoing around the world. A group of researchers, led by expert ufologist Lorraine Gardner, begin an expedition to track down the point of origin from which the sounds emerge. Yet as their journey deepens, they begin to discover more than they bargained for. REVIEW: Since my days as a boy eager for knowledge of all …
Read More »Film Review: The Wave (2020)
SYNOPSIS: An insurance lawyer goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his co-worker, Jeff. But their night takes a turns bizarre when Frank ingests a hallucinogen that completely alters his perception of the world.
Read More »Interview: Tony Reames – Director (Playtime’s Over)
Tony Reames is an award winning director, thanks to his favorite film partner (his 10 year old daughter Evan). They have worked on over 25 short films in all different genres. For their latest they chose to pay tribute to some of the best horror movies with a tale about Evan’s mortal enemy, her babysitter. Kevin Nickelson of Horror News …
Read More »Interview: Adam Raynes (Captured)
Adam Raynes, the writer behind the creepy home invasion short CAPTURED spoke with Kevin Nickelson of Horror News Net. Find out why Adam believes the less is more approach can be a more effective means of storytelling. KN: Growing up, did you have anyone, a particular person or perhaps an icon, an actor or writer or a director that kind …
Read More »Interview: Director Roshni Bhatia (Plasmid)
Roshni Bhatia is a twenty-two year old writer-director who grew up in Mumbai, India. A science fiction and horror fan inspired by the films of James Cameron, Jason Blum and the writings of Richard Matheson, she came to the United States in 2018 to study film. Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world and she …
Read More »Interview: David Black
I like to think that my cinema interests have grown in variety over the years to embrace more output from different countries as well as varying sizes of budget and notoriety (both the pictures that enjoy multi-airings over a month as well as one that you might see once every 3 years and, even then, at 3:30am on a Saturday …
Read More »Underrated Super Hero Movies Worth a Second Look
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 …
Read More »Film Review: One Must Fall (2018)
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, …
Read More »Film Review: Fall of Grace (2017)
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, …
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