SYNOPSIS: A young couple’s dream home turns into a house of horrors when the disturbing, violent acts of three generations of doomed families is reawakened for them to witness. REVIEW: As I pressed the play button on my laptop to watch The Perfect House, I literally had no idea whatsoever of what I was in store for – obviously, from …
Read More »Film Review: Children of Sorrow (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A young woman embeds herself in a cult looking for answers to her sister’s disappearance, only to find a dark secret within the cult and an even darker secret within herself. REVIEW: There’s nothing I like more than a good psychological horror, and Children of Sorrow falls into that category…or at least it nearly did. Whilst I think that …
Read More »Film Review: In Fear (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Trapped in a maze of country roads with only their vehicle for protection, Tom and Lucy are terrorized by an unseen tormentor exploiting their worst fears. Eventually they realize they’ve let the evil in – it’s sitting in their car REVIEW: Fear. It is at the heart of all horror movies and was the theme that inspired Jeremy Lovering …
Read More »Film Review: The Invoking (2013)
SYNOPSIS: After inheriting a house from the family she never knew, Samantha Harris (Trin Miller) and three friends head to rural Sader Ridge to inspect the property. Soon after arriving, Sam begins to experience horrific visions of savage brutality and unspeakable evil. Plagued by the sinister forces closing in around her, Sam descends into a waking nightmare when the demons …
Read More »Film Review: The Facility (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Eight volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.
Read More »Film Review: Nothing Left to Fear (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A family’s journey toward a better life is interrupted by an unstable man of the cloth. REVIEW: Despite the fact that the iconic name ‘Slash’ (aka from Guns ‘n’ Roses fame) produced this movie, it turned out to be a fairly average horror film which managed to throw in a couple of scares but nothing ground-breaking. I’ve noticed that …
Read More »Film Review: Zombie Hunter (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Zombie Hunter” follows the vengeful HUNTER in his journey through the post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested wasteland. Killing in the name of the family he lost, he teams up with a group of survivors and face the deadly mutations that challenge their survival. REVIEW: I’m going to say this right from the start – this is a movie that should not be …
Read More »Film Review: You Can’t Kill Stephen King (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A group of friends visit a lake where horror author Stephen King lives, and start getting killed off one at a time. REVIEW: Including the name of one of the greatest horror novelists of all time in the title, You Can’t Kill Stephen King manages to grab people’s attention for the get-go. However, I’m not too sure that I …
Read More »Film Review: Hold Your Fire (short film) (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A ghostly soldier comes face to face with the grim reality of his war-torn existence on the battlefield and beyond in this award-winning short film directed by Wes Benscoter REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Gallowwalkers (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A cursed gunman (Snipes) whose victims come back from the dead recruits a young warrior to help in the fight against a gang of zombies. REVIEW: It’s difficult to know where to begin with writing a review of the film Gallowwalkers, mainly because there are so many problems with it. It would probably be easier for me to point …
Read More »Film Review: Evidence (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A detective hunts down a killer using video footage shot by the victims of a massacre at an abandoned gas station. REVIEW: I actually thought that the premise for Evidence, although entirely farcical given that if you were running for your life you would not make the decision to film your terrified struggles, was an interesting one which had …
Read More »Film Review: Summer Scars (2007)
SYNOPSIS: A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter. REVIEW: As a viewer, you must be patient with Summer Scars, because even with a running time of just over an hour, it takes a while for things to really warm up. Towards the end things get pretty disturbing though, so most horror …
Read More »Film Review: Judas Ghost (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A team of professional ghost finders are trapped in an old village hall. The haunting they set out to investigate turns out to be far worse than they anticipated. Who will survive and what will be left of their souls? REVIEW: ‘Ghosts don’t make places bad. Bad places make ghosts.’ This quote from Simon R. Green, New York Times …
Read More »Film Review: House of Wax (2005)
SYNOPSIS: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit REVIEW: I find it extremely amusing that one of the key marketing tools for House of Wax was that it gives the audience an opportunity to see Paris Hilton get killed! But if that …
Read More »Film Review: Blood the Last Vampire (2009)
SYNOPSIS: On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on …
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