SYNOPSIS: The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac. REVIEW: Day 3 of the the 80’s experiment. I am bloodied but still I rise to insert the next movie into my DVD player and see what my nefarious editor has demanded I review. Today the movie is …
Read More »Film Review: Battleship (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. REVIEW: What is it with Hollywood & Taylor Kitsch all of a sudden? More importantly, what is it with Taylor Kitsch being cast in not one but TWO movies with $200 million dollar budgets this …
Read More »Film Review: Hell Penitentiary (1985)
SYNOPSIS: Julia, a famous physician, infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister’s killing, but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden’s sexual brutality. REVIEW: Day 2 of the 80’s experiment. For those of you who don’t know, here at HNN we’re trying to get into films from wayback in the 70’s & …
Read More »Film Review: Greedy Terror (1985)
SYNOPSIS: A trilogy of horror stories with ironic twists: a teenager tries out a love potion, a waitress gets involved in a kidnapping plot, two brothers plan to cheat an insurance company by faking their death. REVIEW: Here at Horrornews we are striving to keep ahead of the pack by digging deep into the vault and reviewing films from the …
Read More »Film Review: The Avengers (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army. REVIEW: I am SUCH a nerd! Although no one has the chutzpah to actually come out and call The Black Saint a nerd, I’ll admit to it with something close to a smile on …
Read More »Interview: Director Xavier Gens (The Divide)
Director Xavier Gens made quite the splash with his first full length feature “Frontier(s)” in 2007. One of the first of the new wave of unrelenting horror films that came out of France (Along with “Inside”, “Haute Tension” & “Martyrs”), it was the sordid tale of a group of thieves on the run from the law who decide to pick …
Read More »Film Review: Hookers In Revolt (2006)
SYNOPSIS: A group of hookers revolt against their greedy pimps. REVIEW: OK…I fully believe that my boss hates me now. Why? I haven’t a clue (Although I suppose I could be quicker with my submissions), but I don’t think I’m a bad employee. I think I get the job done pretty well if I do say so myself and I …
Read More »Film Review: Bong Of The Dead (2011)
SYNOPSIS: When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! REVIEW: The Black Saint has been known to indulge in a bit of ceremonial cannabis burning (OK…I enjoy a nice blunt every so often) from time to …
Read More »Film Review: Lockout (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. REVIEW: I really enjoy watching movies, I think a good movie can wash away whatever might be ailing you for a couple of hours. Hell..a bad …
Read More »Film Review: Hell Night (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds. REVIEW: I hate Linda Blair. There! I said it and I mean it too. Why do I hate Ms. Blair …
Read More »Film Review: The Grey (2012)
SYNOPSIS: After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. REVIEW: Stop me if you’ve seen this movie before, A plane full of stock characters (Big African American, Tough Hispanic, Bookworm, Wise guy, Know it all, etc..) crashes in some desolate area …
Read More »Film Review: Wrath Of The Titans (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world. REVIEW: It may surprise some of my acolytes to learn that the Black Saint is a big fan of videogames, a very big fan indeed. As a matter of fact I have been …
Read More »Film Review: The Awakening (2011)
SYNOPSIS: In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the ‘missing’ begin to show themselves. REVIEW: The Black Saint is not a big fan of ghost stories. By and large I find them to …
Read More »Film Review: ATM (2012)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man. REVIEW: Greetings and salutations from the mortuary! I’ve been busy recruiting new acolytes for my army & dispatching them to the furthest corners of the globe to spread the word …
Read More »Film Review: The Rites Of Magick (2005)
SYNOPSIS: The Rites of Magick is a feature length (90 minute) dramatic documentary on the rites, ceremonies and meditative practices of America’s oldest continually operating Magical tradition: The Order of the Temple of Astarte in Southern California. The O.T.A. is the religious-fraternal order of The Church of the Hermetic Sciences incorporated in 1971. This production was filmed and video-recorded in …
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