SYNOPSIS: High school is over and summer has begun in the dead-end seaside town of Rainmouth. While Jamie’s friends seem to be happy working in the local pie factory by day and looking for a shag by night, Jamie is bored out of his mind, running his pot-head mother’s B&B. He’s desperate to get out of there. But when he …
Read More »Film Review: Gothika (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done. REVIEW: All of the right ingredients are present in the movie Gothika, making it a treat for any lover of thrillers or horrors. We’ve got a …
Read More »Film Review: The Descent (2005)
SYNOPSIS: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. REVIEW: Who couldn’t love a horror movie involving six beautiful women battling against angry mutant creatures (known simply as ‘crawlers’) in a fight for their lives? This film was a delight to watch from beginning to end, there was …
Read More »Film Review: Captivity (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree has it all – beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer is America’s sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. …
Read More »Film Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
SYNOPSIS: The Quileute and the Volturi close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses different threats to the wolf pack and vampire coven. REVIEW: Film fans from all around the world are now familiar with the term ‘Twilight’ and it always manages to spark a heated debate, both for and against it. It has often been …
Read More »Film Review: Hellgate (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A western businessman (Cary Elwes), his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies. REVIEW: This film is also known in some places as Shadows, which did at first cause some confusion, but I personally think that Shadows …
Read More »Film Review: No Way Out (short film) (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Isolated in a place where twisted creatures torment him from the dark, a man desperately tries to find an escape REVIEW: Although this short film was made on a mere $3000 budget, it was wonderfully shot and puts even some feature length films to shame! The action cuts in straight away, before the audience even has a chance to …
Read More »Film Review: Whisper (short film)
SYNOPSIS: Mike moves into a new dorm room and finds something strange whispering to him at night in his closet. What is it and how far will Mike go to learn it’s secret? REVIEW: Now short films don’t come much more D.I.Y than Whisper does, and I mean that entirely in a good way. The filming took place in director …
Read More »Film Review: The House That Cried Blood (short film) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Four teens venture up to Old Lady Death’s house to find the remains of her dead decomposing body they believe to be lying in the house. What they end up finding is far worse then what they could’ve imagined REVIEW: This has been described as ‘a Halloween short of badass proportions’ by the star Damian Maffei, but I wish …
Read More »Film Review: Bearz (short film) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: 6 year old Sam gets a birthday gift – a new teddy. Old Ted is not so pleased with this turn of events. A short horror filmette from Rob Parnell for R&R Film.
Read More »Film Review: The S State (short film) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: When American fugitive Ray seeks refuge with his cousin on a South East London council estate, he finds himself in the middle of a mess that forces him to stop running. A new street drug (skank) supplied by Ray’s cousin Vee is turning people into monsters. Neighbour Sylvia buys it for her gran to supress her constant bitching. Nana …
Read More »Film Review: The Muse (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A one-hit-wonder musician battles writers block and a strange inspirational force at a secluded lake house. REVIEW: This film had an interesting concept and played with the idea of a ‘traditional’ ghost story rather well. The ‘ghost’ sub-genre dates back many, many years and for that reason it is hard to come up with something that audiences haven’t seen …
Read More »Film Review: Hellweek (2010)
SYNOPSIS: Rush week turns unexpectedly hellish when a band of sadistic, masked, homicidal maniacs holed up in an abandoned warehouse wreak havoc on a bunch of not-so-innocent college kids. REVIEW: This horror film was horrific to watch for all of the wrong reasons, I’m afraid. The story was very vague and seemed to take a century to actually get to …
Read More »Film Review: Video Diary of a Lost Girl (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A rock and roll horror fantasy where we meet the immortal Louise and her beloved Charlie. Unfortunately, due to Louise’s supernatural origins, every man she sleeps with must die! Charlie was Louise’s first love from the 1920’s, who she accidentally killed before realizing what she is: a descendant of Lilith, the mother of all demons! This race of women …
Read More »Film Review: Dragon Wasps (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood. REVIEW: Despite the …
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