Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Jewish family, that just arrived in a new neighborhood, are recording their youngest son’s birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a bunch of crystal-meth-crazed Neo-Nazi lunatics. REVIEW: We open with a home video showing a young boy’s birthday party. The whole family is there, ready to celebrate, when the dad, …
Read More »Film Review: Lung II (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past? Or are they premonitions? REVIEW: If you’re familiar with the work of director Phil Stevens, you know he does things a bit differently, which in turn makes his films feel like a …
Read More »Film Review: Footsteps (2006)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass. REVIEW: If I say the name Gareth Evans, you are no doubt immediately thinking about The Raid: Redemption, or maybe The Raid 2, or maybe that …
Read More »Film Review: Sadisticum (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sadisticum tells the story of a man, for it seems to be only one mission in life, the torture and killing of his fellow men. At the age of 17, he has already killed two people. Then he succeeded to prevent his appetite for many years. He spent half of his life to work with the …
Read More »Film Review: Guinea Pig 4: Devil Doctor Woman (1986)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A mad doctor displays a selection of her more gruesome case studies. Starting with one family whose heads explode if they get angry and a woman whose heart explodes if she’s surprised, the doctor then presents us with a man whose right half wants to kill his left. Other subjects put on display are the effects of …
Read More »Book Review: Shatnerquest – Author Jeff Burk
Shatnerquest – by Jeff Burk Eraserhead Press, 2013 When a Magic: The Gathering tournament at Baltimore’s SuperCoolCon is interrupted by the beginning of the end of the world, Gary, Janice, Benny, and Benny’s cat Squishy find themselves on a mission, to boldly go where no cosplay group has gone before. To do what any self-respecting fan should do, given the …
Read More »Film Review: Rafureshia (1995)
SYNOPSIS: A young girl, alone on a private island with her incestuous, domineering father decides to escape her confinement. An unhappy housewife, trapped in a loveless marriage with her unresponsive husband and an overbearing mother-in-law wants out of her dreary existence. The twosome join up to escape their previous lives so they can start afresh together. REVIEW: Rafureshia (aka Sukebe-zuma: …
Read More »Film Review: Caligula (1979)
SYNOPSIS: Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome’s most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula. REVIEW: Today we are going to take a few minutes to discuss Caligula. I’m not talking about the play by Albert Camus, nor (necessarily) the factually accurate account of the madman/emperor of Rome. I’m talking about the legendary movie that we all …
Read More »Film Review: Brutal (2017)
SYNOPSIS: A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. We are all looking for that special love of our lives and sometimes, we’re willing to kill everyone to find that special someone. This is the tale of two people …
Read More »Film Review: Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version (2004)
SYNOPSIS: In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of “Enjo Kosai” is in fashion among some high school girls. A mysterious man Kuni lament such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He punish the girls by having sex with them without paying them. He calls this operation “Stop the Bitch Campaign” for public justice….. REVIEW: There is a …
Read More »Film Review: Night of the Dead: Leben Tod (2006)
SYNOPSIS: Pregnant and frightened, Anais is not allowed to leave the specialized hospital where her husband, Peter has a medical internship with his uncle, Dr. Gabriel Schreklich, a man with a serum that can resurrect the dead. But things go terribly wrong and the Ghouls take over the hospital. Now, the only way for Anais to save her unborn baby …
Read More »Film Review: 36 Pasos (2006)
SYNOPSIS: 36 pasos is a 2006 Argentine horror film directed and written by Adrián García Bogliano REVIEW: 36 Pasos (aka 36 Steps, or according to the subtitles in the movie itself, The Thirty-Six Trap, either translation working as well as the other) is the kind of movie that you watch and then try and pinpoint what it reminds you of. …
Read More »Film Review: When Your Flesh Screams (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Martina, a biology student, who after moving from her hometown to complete her studies decides to undertake an excursion to the outskirts of the city in search of rare and exotic specimens for research. Not finding the specimen after a long search, she decides to rest by the roadside. At that time, her new psychotic neighbors propose to take …
Read More »Film Review: The Red Cell (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A terminally ill patient, wakes up in a dark, decrepit underground chamber. An IV pumps an unknown liquid into his body and adorning his head is a crown of wires. His last memories lead him back to the hospital where doctors had recently discovered his illness. He didn’t even have enough time to inform those closest to him of …
Read More »Film Review: Sudden Fury (1997)
SYNOPSIS: Intent on seizing control of South East England’s cocaine business, small-time crime boss Randall hires notorious hit-man Walker to take out his competition. When Randall betrays the hit-man, however, the tables are turned.
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