Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to takeover the large estate. REVIEW: Sometimes, it is fun to imagine classic Hollywood films reworked into horror films. Instead of Rosebud being a sled, what if Rosebud was a ghost that haunted …
Read More »Film Review: American Fable (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After 11-year-old Gitty discovers a man who can grant wishes hiding in her family’s silo, she is forced to choose between saving the man’s life and protecting her family. REVIEW: Back in the 80s, Reagan-era farmers were seeing a tidal wave of foreclosures on property due to economic issues. Many farms were bought and resold, leaving …
Read More »Film Review: The Hole in the Ground (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house. REVIEW: Sarah O’Neill recently moved into a remote house with her young son, Chris. The dad …
Read More »Film Review: Yummy (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Yummy is an orgy of blood, violence and fun in which a young couple travel to a shabby Eastern European hospital for plastic surgery. The young woman wants a breast reduction. Her mother comes along for yet another face-lift. Wandering through an abandoned ward the boyfriend stumbles upon a young woman, gagged and strapped to an …
Read More »Film Review: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature. REVIEW: An old man sitting on a stool as he stares at his own reflection in the mirror behind the bar. It is late. The jukebox bleeds a single guitar as Billy Squier sings about the demons we carry inside. The beginning of “The …
Read More »Film Review: Neverknock (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Halloween fun turns to horror when young friends ignore the warnings of a local urban legend and unintentionally unleash a gruesome creature known as Never Knock, that uses their worst fears to stalk and kill them one by one REVIEW: Why does seeing “A Syfy Original” at the beginning of a movie bring on a sense …
Read More »Film Review: Driven (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Emerson Graham’s nights as a cab driver are filled with annoyances and inconveniences, but until tonight, never attacks and disappearances. After picking up a mysterious passenger her evening goes from working a job to performing a quest as they must race against the clock to defeat a force of evil. The meter is running. REVIEW: Got …
Read More »Film Review: Haven (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 4 years after a Nuclear disaster, a father and daughter try to live a simple life in the woods. When a routine supply run goes awry, trouble soon finds it way back to them and their Haven. REVIEW: Wow. 2020 has been one helluva year, so far. Massive bushfires in Australia. Impeachment of President Trump. Drone …
Read More »Film Review: Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five strangers converge at a haunted movie theater owned by The Projectionist (Mickey Rourke). Once inside, the audience members witness a series of screenings that shows them their deepest fears and darkest secrets over five tales. REVIEW: I tend to enjoy anthology movies. It’s kind of like getting to see a bunch of little movies without …
Read More »Film Review: Itsy Bitsy (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the centuries old poem, a family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider. REVIEW: Have I expressed my dislike of spiders before? I really don’t like them. Not phobic, but I don’t trust them to just walk away and …
Read More »Film Review: The Source of Shadows (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A series of stories woven together by one of our most primal fears, the fear of the unknown.
Read More »Film Review: Wretch (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Under the tutelage of an eccentric hippie restaurateur and her messianic self-help guru, a young man sets out to master the occult magic of Enceladism in an effort to destroy the cancer that’s killing his partner. REVIEW: Nat is a recovering alcoholic who, at the beginning of “Wretch”, is 30 days sober. A pretty amazing feat …
Read More »Film Review: The Unborn (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Strange, unexplained events unfold at an old factory. Two security guards must come to terms with reality: Tiffany as a future mother, and Joey who is secretly in love with her. But someone has other plans for both as well as Tiffany’s unborn child. REVIEW: I wish I could say that I’ll do my review of …
Read More »Film Review: Witches in the Woods (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jill, a tenacious UMass freshman, abandons her studies for an off-the-grid snowboarding trip. When their SUV mysteriously becomes lost, temperatures fall and the group dynamic unravels as a virtual and then literal witch hunt begins. REVIEW: Those crazy college kids are at it again. Kids with their snowboarding, their team sports, their need to party, their …
Read More »Film Review: Hood of Horror (2006)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife. REVIEW: As the old saying goes, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.” Freudian analysis aside, let’s just say that sometimes, …
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