Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The veil between the living and the dead has lifted for 24 hours, would you survive? REVIEW: I was initially drawn to this film because of the name. In West Yorkshire, where I live, there’s a town called Wakefield. It’s not the nicest place on Earth but has an awesome art gallery and a couple of …
Read More »Film Review: Underwater (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. REVIEW: Underwater, directed by William Eubank, concerns Norah Price (played by Kristen Stewart) and a group of engineers as they escape a drilling station in the …
Read More »Film Review: American Conjuring (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A family moves into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their charming orphanage has a disturbing history and are convinced they aren’t alone. REVIEW: American Conjuring, directed by Dan Walton and Dan Zachary, finds a family of four moving into a spooky, old orphanage with a sinister past. It’s really not long before the past starts making …
Read More »Film Review: Case 347 (2020)
SYNOPSIS: CASE 347 follows psychologist and UFO skeptic, Dr. Mia Jansen (Maya Stojan), and a team of documentary filmmakers who believe that alien abduction claims are forms of “mass hysteria”. This is their footage: REVIEW: The paranormal is of great interest to me and I love reading about hauntings and strange occurrences. One area that has never quite instilled the …
Read More »Film Review: Tentacles (1977)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community. REVIEW: A nightmare begins for the small, coastal town of Ocean Beach when a baby disappears and a sailor washes up, stripped of his flesh. Something is lurking in those murky waters and it appears to have something to do with the digging of a deep …
Read More »Film Review: Afterdeath (2015)
Rate This Movie SUMMARY: Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realising that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here – …
Read More »Film Review: The Culling (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A terrifying supernatural thriller in which a group of college friends on a road trip find themselves fighting off dark forces at a remote farmhouse after a chance encounter with a strange little girl.
Read More »Film Review: The Hoarder (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman enters an underground storage facility, where she soon finds herself trapped and stalked by a killer. REVIEW: My wife says that I have a portion of OCD in my personality and my brother has said that I get obsessive about my hobbies on more that one occasion. I like to collect things and …
Read More »Film Review: Anarchy Parlour (2014)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mysterious nomad known as the “Artist” practices a dark art form passed down through the generations.
Read More »Film Review: Wolf Warrior (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord. REVIEW: Titles can be incredibly confusing things as they conjure up all kinds of mental images that lead to films either living up to expectation, surpassing them or …
Read More »Film Review: Shadow Zombie (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A southern tale of love and death set deep in Louisiana country. A lonely drug dealer (Kim Filth) finds peace when he transforms into his alter ego, Shadow Zombie, by merely painting his face and snorting painkillers.
Read More »Film Review: Bloody Knuckles (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Travis is an underground comic book artist with a penchant for the obscene. When one of his comics insults a Chinatown crime boss, the gangster punishes Travis by removing his drawing hand. A daunted Travis retreats into a life of alcoholic misery. That is, until his hand returns from the grave… REVIEW: I think it’s fair to say that, …
Read More »Film Review: The Badger Game (2014)
SYNOPSIS: A chronic philanderer falls victim to an extortion scheme when he is abducted by four masked strangers demanding retribution for his sins.
Read More »Film Review: Mystics in Bali (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a Penanggalan; a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck. It is now up to the local holy men who are then enforced …
Read More »Film Review: La Blue Girl: Revenge of the Shikima Realm (1995)
SYNOPSIS: The first part in the live action La Blue Girl trilogy. REVIEW: One of the great things about writing horror film reviews and, as a result, watching lots of horror films is that moment when you stare at the screen as the end credit roll and mutter to yourself, “What the hell did I just watch?”. This reaction can …
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