SYNOPSIS: It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget. REVIEW: A recent …
Read More »Film Review: Once Upon a Time at Christmas (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Santa and Mrs. Clause go on a killing spree in Woodbridge, 12 days prior to Christmas. REVIEW: The Christmas season is over. Santa has packed up the elves for another year. We can rest easy until the day after Halloween before being pummeled by candy canes, mistletoe, and mawkish tunes of good cheer. Unfortunately, the Christmas-themed movies don’t care …
Read More »Film Review: Mother Krampus (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Based on the myth of Frau Perchta, a witch that comes on the 12 days of Christmas taking children each night. REVIEW: I have never been a huge fan of Christmas, which I may have stated in a previous review, so I greatly enjoy films that throw major monkey wrenches into the works of holiday bliss. Our next contender …
Read More »Film Review: Creatures of the Abyss (Plankton) (1994)
SYNOPSIS: Five teenagers embark on a boating trip off the coast of Florida. The teens get hopelessly lost at sea after they get caught in a fierce storm. Fortunately, the quintet stumble across an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean with a mysterious biology lab on board it. Unfortunately, there are also ferocious mutated prehistoric fish running amok …
Read More »Film Review: Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
SYNOPSIS: After a nuclear war, the survivors are divided between horribly mutated beings who live on desolate reservations and fertile women who are searching for scarce virile men in order to multiply and start a new human society. REVIEW: Oh, Roddy Piper. You might not have been the hero we wanted, but you were the hero we needed. Okay, that’s …
Read More »Film Review: Killing Ground (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A couples camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime. REVIEW: “Killing Ground” would possibly be the best visual postcard to promote Australian tourism if they could maybe tone down the whole “local loons killing tourists” vibe. Director Damien Power has created a visually lush world for his feature-film debut. …
Read More »Film Review: Ghost in the Graveyard (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The town of Mt. Moriah comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who comes back to haunt the teens, who witnessed her death as children, during a “game” of ‘Ghost in the Graveyard.’ REVIEW: WARNING: This review may contain information that would be considered “spoilers”. Ten years ago, a group of kids decide to play …
Read More »Film Review: Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
SYNOPSIS: A single mother moves her three children into the haunted house not knowing of the house’s bloody history. REVIEW: Amityville called. They want their legend back because they are tired of people mucking about with it. Okay, the town didn’t call, but you’d think someone from there would ask filmmakers to find another town to make horror movies about. …
Read More »Film Review: Devil’s Whisper (2017)
SYNOPSIS: 15 year-old Alejandro Duran, who comes from a religious Latino family, aspires to one day be a Catholic priest. But when Alex discovers a mysterious box he unwittingly unleashes a demonic spirit bent on possessing him. Alex must find a way to defeat this ancient demon, which has been tormenting children since the dawn of man, before it destroys …
Read More »Film Review: Ghost Witch (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A group of rag-tag paranormal investigators get more than they bargain for when they research an old local urban legend for a disturbed local girl. REVIEW: Ever find yourself thinking about what people in the future will think of the films we leave behind? I mean, I’m a big fan of craptastic cinema from the 50s through the 80s. …
Read More »Film Review: 47 Meters Down (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Two sisters, vacationing in Mexico, are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean, with less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby REVIEW: A friend of mine used to hate it when I would comment on a movie and say, “It was pretty good for what it is.” His biggest …
Read More »Film Review: Les Affames (2017)
SYNOPSIS: In a small, remote village in upstate Quebec, things have changed. Locals are not the same anymore – their bodies are breaking down and they developed an outlandish attraction for flesh. REVIEW: “Silence is so accurate,” to quote Mark Rothko. Silence is the key to the heart of Robin Aubert’s “Les Affames” (The Hungry). To be honest, it seems …
Read More »Film Review: Cut Shoot Kill (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Serena Brooks, an ambitious young actress, signs on as the star of a horror film with a crew of backwoods filmmakers that have worked together for years. When the cast starts disappearing, Serena has to become her character if she wants to survive. REVIEW: I remember back when I was a kid. Always a horror movie fan, I perked …
Read More »Film Review: Clowntergeist (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Emma, a college student with a crippling fear of clowns, must come face to face with her worst fear when an evil spirit in the body of a clown is summoned terrorizing the town she calls home. REVIEW: Lon Chaney is attributed with the quote: “There’s nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight.” I can get behind that …
Read More »Film Review: A Taste of Evil (1971)
SYNOPSIS: On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. REVIEW: Adequate. There’s a word you just don’t hear very often. I used to know a gentleman who used that word to occasionally describe movies that he’d seen. It was the most …
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