Let’s start this off with a little background info… Halloween Horror Nights (or HHN) is a yearly event held at Universal Studios Orlando, Hollywood, Singapore, and Japan. All four events have similarities as well as differences, but we’ll be focusing specifically on the Orlando event, which has promised an 80s theme. (Check out our review of last year’s event here.) …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Typical Mondo in the style of Faces of Death REVIEW: This is one of those movies that folks might call a “shockumentary” – a movie that is most often found in the horror section of your video store, but claims to contain “REAL” footage of death and dismemberment. The most famous of these, of course, is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The cast and crew of a horror film encounter the vengeful spirit of a cursed demon. REVIEW: As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the big news coming out of Unearthed Films is the return of the exorcism film with the upcoming release of American Guinea Pig: Song of Solomon. As if to whet our appetites …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lurid and exploitative adventure into erotica, violence, pain, and the unknown. Necrophilia, torture, gore, and psychological horror REVIEW: You can’t wave a limited collector’s edition VHS tape in the independent horror world and not hit what some folks would call a torture p**n movie. And it makes sense – if your film revolves primarily around …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Extreme urban violence reigns in Argentina. Senator Beccar Varela rises as the only way to stop violence with his “zero tolerance” politic. People doesn’t suspect that Beccar is the head of the nazi gang that causes the violence. When members of the gang torture and rape a intellectually disabled man, a mysterious Masked avenger begins his …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The story is about David Gates, a cryptozoologist who is hired to film his investigations. One of them being a mysterious town where all of it’s inhabitants have vanished without a trace. David uncovers far more than he anticipated and puts his own life at risk. Afterwards David begins to feel the bizarre effects from the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rookie cop starts her shift like any other but soon it will all change for the worse. A derelict with a reputation of satanic violence, attacks the officer and collars her with a dog leash which is just the start of his abusive ritual. REVIEW: If you’ve seen anything by writer/director Ryan Nicholson (for example, …

 The films of Dustin Wayde Mills tend to go in one of two directions. On one hand, he has directed some of the more unique films in the genre of the last 10 years, combining an experimental, nonlinear approach with raw, visceral images and a violent sexual angle. Films like Applecart, Her Name was Torment, and A Black Heart in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A documentary that explores why society loves to watch death and gore in movies. REVIEW: The number one question a hardcore horror fan will be asked in their life (by non-horror fans) has got to be: Why do you watch that garbage? (Running a close second is probably “What is wrong with you?” but that’s a …

Rate This Movie  REVIEW:  Some anthology films feature a wraparound story that weaves its way through from beginning to end; others feature a host who appears between segments to wisecrack and introduce the next story; and in some, one story begins where the previous ended, and ends where the next begins, and so on. And then there’s Home Videos, which …

Rate This Movie REVIEW:  Industrial Animals is a very small film in almost every measurable metric. Weighing in at roughly 61 minutes, this low budget, found footage film from the UK features a cast of just three people who also cover many of the behind the scenes credits as well. In fact, the entire story takes place over a three-day …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: ”THE DAY OF THE PURPLE SUN”: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? REVIEW: There is a very specific style to the films of Carsten Frank and Margarethe von Stern, but it is one that would be very difficult to put …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: If there’s one thing we can count on in the world of horror cinema, it is the fact that no matter what trend becomes the next “big” thing, no matter what style or on what format horror films are shot, anthology films will always be here. Two of the bigger players in the anthology market right …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 2 years have passed since the terrible events in the exitus house. Sophie, the sister of the dead monique, suffers from the fact that the body of her sister has never been found. Together with her friend Lena, she makes her own research and discovers a terrible secret in the former murder house! REVIEW: Exitus Interruptus …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While they are haunted by ghostly apparitions, two parents try to protect their young son from a dark secret that could destroy their family. REVIEW: Michael Williams’s latest film, The Atoning, follows a family living what seems at times like a surreal nightmare. Mom (Vera, played convincingly by Virginia Newcomb) and son (Sam, Cannon Bosarge in …