Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past. REVIEW: I miss the old days. You went out, saw a movie in the theater, got jazzed up about …
Read More »Film Review: Don’t Say Its Name (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After environmental activist Kharis Redwater is called back to the living world by her mother Mary Lynn after a questionable “accident” that cost Kharis her life, an ancient spirit is reborn outside of a small northern town out of revenge for the loss of her daughter’s life. Kharis returns as a Wheetago, a ferocious creature that …
Read More »Film Review: Antidote (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman is held captive in an underground medical facility where selected individuals are perpetually mutilated and then healed using a secret Antidote. REVIEW: “Antidote” opens with a casual drone-shot of a modern city. The view floats along as credits roll. So soothing and generic. It could be your city. It could be mine. Any …
Read More »Film Review: Nightmare Sisters (1988)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three geeky college girls who can’t get a date, organize a seance and become sex starved vamps. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Welcome to Hell (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A terrifying coven of tales designed to take viewers into the nether reaches of insanity, shock and horror.
Read More »Film Review: The Bellwether (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: To the outside world Joanne is just a book-store owner, but the Conspiracy knows different. She’s dangerous. She’s a bellwether: a quiet leader who is well on her way to being her whole self. When they kidnap her to break her to make her conform, they discover that Joanne is something so much more than even …
Read More »Film Review: The Appearance (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged ‘witch’. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts …
Read More »Film Review: The Old Ways (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she’s the devil incarnated. REVIEW: Cristina, a journalist for what appears to be an occult-investigation magazine, returns to Veracruz on a story. She left …
Read More »Film Review: Don’t Breathe 2 (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The sequel is set in the years following the initial deadly home invasion, where Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang) lives in quiet solace until his past sins catch up to him. REVIEW: During the 80s and 90s, Vietnam veterans, as characters in horror/action films, were considered to be modern-day ninja with uncanny abilities that made them almost …
Read More »Film Review: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six people unwillingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive. Joining forces with two of the original survivors, they soon discover they’ve all played the game before. REVIEW: NOTE: There are two versions of “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions”. There is the theatrical version, and …
Read More »Film Review: Dark Figures (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five friends accidentally awaken an ancient evil while hiking in Arizona. They must fight to survive both a demonic spirit and the small tribe who worships it. REVIEW: Some movies you remember from their opening scene until your dying day. Other movies slide out of your memory as life gives you more and more to remember …
Read More »Film Review: Concrete Plans (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A motley gang of builders take on a remote farmhouse renovation, only to be ripped off by the aristocratic owner, causing events to spin badly out of control… REVIEW: Take a group of rough, blue-collar builders from different places, isolate them in a country estate to do massive renovation work on a tight schedule, pit against …
Read More »Film Review: Separation (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother. REVIEW: “Separation” is the story of Maggie and Jeff Vahn’s failing marriage. Without any context, we are first shown how happy they are supposed to be, but the first live scene with them together in the film devolves into a …
Read More »Film Review: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king’s behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. REVIEW: During the 1760’s, in the province of Gevaudan, France, a series of attacks and killings took place. Often the victims were people …
Read More »Film Review: Gaia (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. REVIEW: I cannot say that I have ever dosed on ‘shrooms for altering my mind, but I get the …
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