Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a six-year relationship with his girlfriend Rie, Jonas decides take a stab at the freedom of single life, but is confronted with a world filled with lonely, emotionless and sex-fixated individuals. An infernal racket from the upstairs neighbour Frank forces him to consider the possibility that noise can come from anywhere, even from the inside. …
Read More »Film Review: Mute (short film) (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mute, which follows a tongue-chopping madman chasing three kids who stumble into his neck of the woods REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MUTE, written and directed by A Color Green (yea, I’m not making that up…..that is, in fact, the person’s name as listed). This is the directorial debut for A Color Green, …
Read More »Film Review: Blood and Carpet (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the late 1960s there were no CCTV or crime scene DNA testing, but disposing of a dead body was still bloody murder. REVIEW: I love period films, especially when the filmmaker gets it right. It’s difficult to create another era. The more recent the era, the more difficult the task. BLOOD AND CARPET takes place …
Read More »Film Review: The Wild Hunt (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend. REVIEW: This is a different film from the kind I usually get, and I’m finding it difficult to try and explain it. There are three seperate stories going on at the same time. Each runs parallel …
Read More »Film Review: The Ten Steps (short film) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set in Ireland, a family moves to a new city neighborhood, taking residence in a large, old house that is rumored to have a dodgy past. Their young daughter Katie is caught in a power outage while the parents are out to dinner, and her father insists that she go down to the basement to fix …
Read More »Film Review: Light as a Feather (short film) (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A ghost story told at a spooky sleepover becomes all too real.
Read More »Film Review: The Phantom of Regular Size (short film) (1986)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man gradually transforms into a robotic, metal-encrusted monster. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! And I’m really excited about this one. Today we have Futsû saizu no kaijin (The Phantom of Regular Size), a film from 1986 written and directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto. Some of you out there may recognize the director’s name. That’s because he …
Read More »Film Review: The Nightmare (short film) (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Karen has been tormented by a creature that regularly manifests in her bedroom. Out of fear, she keeps these encounters to herself. Until the nightmare becomes all too real and, with no other choice, she must confront the unwelcome visitor. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE NIGHTMARE, written and directed by Christian D. …
Read More »Film Review: Home Education (short film) (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An authoritarian mother and her inquisitive daughter keep their father/husband’s corpse in the attic, convinced that if they show how much they care for him, he’ll no doubt come back to life soon. That is, until he begins to rot.
Read More »Film Review: The Hopping Dead (short film) (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two thieves break into a Chinese business only to stumble upon the terror that is the Chinese jiang shi, a corpse reanimated as a vampire by Chinese black magic that, because of rigor mortis, chases after its victims by hopping. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have a tasy entry called THE HOPPING DEAD, Written …
Read More »Film Review: The Knock (short film)
Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE KNOCK, directed by Andrew P. The film features a young girl (actor not credited) going about normal bathroom things as if to start her day. Then she starts to hear a knocking, but can’t figure out where its coming from. She does find the source eventually, but that’s …
Read More »Film Review: Regissören (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A director falls into insanity because of the films he is making, and we follow his attempt at making his last film, an anthology of surreal films. REVIEW: ok kids. Got a feature for you this time. It was sent to me as a short film, but with a run time of one hour and ten …
Read More »Film Review: Spirits of the Fall (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: This Halloween, the spirits are restless and things that go bump in the night are closer than they seem for Chris, a widower who is coming to terms with his loss. While living in his hotel, strange things begin to happen. Voices in the night and faces at the window are not uncommon and things …
Read More »Film Review: A Tale of the Bonesetter (short film) (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman and her child visit a Bed and Breakfast in rural Quebec unaware of the town’s history of child murders at the hands of an ancient Bonesetter. REVIEW: ok yet another short film, and yet another from writer/director Brett Kelly. I’ve seen a lot of his short films in the last year. Seems to be …
Read More »Film Review: Hellbox: A Caixa Do Inferno (short film) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In a street sale, an old lady buys a mysterious box, but the box does not have any opening in sight, she lends the box to a friend who can open it, and it’s hell on earth, when Mephisto is released from his eternal prison.
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