Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Master cake decorater and all-round family man, John (Bub) Morris, has a secret. He likes to hunt and stalk his prey. Woman. REVIEW: Prey is a short film written and directed by Adam Mason (see also Broken, The Devil’s Chair, and Hangman, among others), his second project after his 2001 debut, Dust. This is a short …
Read More »Film Review: Ostermontag (1991)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Heiko has fallen in love with his stepsister Fabiane who rejects him and lets her twin sister Nicole replace her. One day he plans to kill Nicole in order to end the recuring mix-ups. Unfortunately he catches Fabiane instead of Nicole and is sent to a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Years later …
Read More »Film Review: 555 (1988)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he’s …
Read More »Film Review: Three Tears on Bloodstained Flesh (2014)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A modern, Midwestern spin on the Giallo about a man with a sordid past who returns to the small town he abandoned to bury his niece. Convinced she was murdered he begins uncovering the town’s dark secrets, racking up a very high body count. REVIEW: Three Tears on Bloodstained Flesh might sound like the title of …
Read More »Film Review: Terror Nation (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a criminal gang botch a heist they find themselves drawn into a terrifying government conspiracy to cull the population.
Read More »Film Review: Caterpillar (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country …
Read More »Film Review: The Untamed (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction. REVIEW: The Untamed (or La Region Salvaje, which translates literally to The Wild Region) is a sci-fi/horror film coming …
Read More »Film Review: Red Room (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Held hostage in an isolated house, three kidnapped women attempt to escape from their sadistic captors. REVIEW: Written and directed by Stephen Gaffney (Bully [2015, not the Larry Clark film], Class A) and co-written by Erica Keegan (co-writer along with Gaffney of the upcoming The Profession of Violence), 2017’s Red Room combines a familiar title with …
Read More »Film Review: The Red Nights of the Gestapo (1977)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England. Disgraced, but dedicated Nazi officer Colonel Werner von Uhland is assigned by his superiors to ferret out these deceitful dissidents and stop them before it’s too late. von Uhland recruits a bunch of beautiful women to seduce these traitors …
Read More »Film Review: Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007)
SYNOPSIS: A policeman travels to Thailand and has an affair. When he has to return to Hong Kong, he promises that he will return. He doesn’t, that sends his life into a spiral thanks to the girl’s connections in the black magic world. REVIEW: Gong tau (also known as Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic or simply Voodoo) is a …
Read More »Film Review: Extremity (2018)
SYNOPSIS A young woman obsessed with horror subjects herself to hours of grueling torment inside an extreme haunt in an attempt to confront her fears and conquer the tragic past that haunts her. REVIEW: In less experienced, less capable hands, a horror movie based around an extreme haunt has a high potential of crashing and burning. Picture it: a secretly …
Read More »Film Review: Rot (1999)
SYNOPSIS: Sarah has a surprise and gruesome announcement for Muzzy… she has contracted a deadly virus called the ROT which she got by sexing a dead guy from the local funeral home, and now she has passed it along to Muzzy. Slowly the two of them begin to ROT alive, spreading the insidious, flesh-melting disease to friends and foes and …
Read More »Film Review: Crazy Murder (2014)
SYNOPSIS: The film follows a severely mentally ill homeless man over the course of a year in the streets of New York City as he commits a string of senseless murders and disgusting acts. With very little dialog and subtle background music, as Crazy Murder unfolds the viewer is subjected to disgusting nails-on-chalkboard visuals and senseless acts REVIEW: Crazy Murder is a …
Read More »Film Review: The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub. REVIEW: Before I start this review, I feel that I need to provide what they call in the business as a “full disclosure.” Herschell Gordon Lewis is one of my filmland …
Read More »Film Review: Transgression (1994)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: TV reporter Mary Selby wanted to get inside the mind of a serial killer… NOW SHE CAN’T GET OUT! REVIEW: According to director Michael P. DiPaolo’s bio, he spent sixteen years recording murder confessions at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. He goes so far as to say he has “been in the room with more murderers …
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