SYNOPSIS: A TV documentary crew searches the woods for a fabled creature. REVIEW: Most of us who follow b-movies will know the name Brett Piper. I first became familiar with his work when watching a Troma trailer tape advertising his film “A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell”. It was one of those ridiculous films that I never felt could hold …
Read More »Film Review: The Task (2010)
SYNOPSIS: A group of unlucky reality show contestants must survive the night in a haunted jail. REVIEW: Today I went to see “Captain America: First Avenger”, which is now my second favorite super hero movie next to “Spiderman 2”. It was a really great film that does EVERYTHING right. When I returned from the theater I came home and jumped …
Read More »Film Review: Stuck (2007)
SYNOPSIS: Driving home after a night of partying, Brandi (Mena Suvari) accidentally crashes into pedestrian Tom (Stephen Rea), who gets stuck in her car’s windshield. Brandi struggles with whether to help save this man’s life or simply let him die and thereby protect her career. In extreme pain and with little time left to live, Tom pleads for Brandi’s help …
Read More »Film Review: Spike: A Gothic Fairytale (2010)
SYNOPSIS: After skidding off the road in the dead of night, four friends find themselves lost in the forest and tangled in a twisted love story. As they are each picked off one by one by a bizarre beast it becomes clear that none of them will make it out of this forest alive; unless the one the monster so …
Read More »Film Review: Christian Blake (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young journalist’s trip to an asylum for the mentally insane yields strange fruit when she speaks with Christian (writer-director Eoin Macken), a darkly disturbed patient who reveals his mysterious past in a shockingly candid interview. Through flashbacks, a twisted story begins to take shape, involving friendship, jealousy and betrayal of the cruelest kind. And the …
Read More »Film Review: Red Hook (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Despite her better judgment, college freshman Jenny (Christina Brucato) reluctantly agrees to join her new friends in a New York City scavenger hunt. As the group receives mysterious text message clues, they’re sent to dark, dangerous corners of the city. Soon, they realize that this is no innocent game, and winning could mean the difference between life and death. …
Read More »Film Review: Father’s Day (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father’s Day Killer. REVIEW: It’s almost impossible to classify “Father’s Day” …
Read More »Film Review: Hush (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver following a near accident REVIEW: It isn’t something I am used to when I am made a bit uncomfortable by dialogue in a film. It is an even rarer one when this happens within the first few minutes of …
Read More »Film Review: Blood Junkie (2010)
SYNOPSIS: Laura is supposed to babysit her little brother all weekend, but plans change when two studly high school graduates invited her and her best friend on a weekend adventure. Dragging her brother along, the five of them head to the woods for a killer camping trip. But the party of their lives is about to get cut short. REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: For Sale by Owner (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Will Custis (Scott Cooper) makes his living as an architect, preserving and restoring America’s historic buildings, but his latest project threatens to become an obsession, even as it offers answers to one of this nation’s oldest, eeriest mysteries. When his work takes him to Chesapeake Bay, Will becomes intrigued by the legend of Roanoke, the lost American colony, and …
Read More »Film Review: Mutants (2008)
SYNOPSIS: When a ruthless corporate-sponsored scientist develops an additive designed to make ordinary sugar wildly addictive, the chemical mutates his imprisoned test subjects into savage, bloodthirsty zombies. Now, the corporation’s crack security team must contain the threat before the mutants escape and the poisoned sugar gets into the mainstream food supply. Michael Ironside and Steven Bauer star in this horror …
Read More »HorrorHound Weekend Indianapolis 2011 Report
Somehow I managed to scrounge up enough cash and get time off work to attend HorrorHound Weekend Indianapolis, March 25th-27th at the Indianapolis Marriot East. This is only my second time attending a HorrorHound show and I have to admit they are tremendous events and very well organized. I will try to keep this short and entertaining. Plus much alcohol …
Read More »Film Review: Savage Harvest (1994)
SYNOPSIS: What was thought to be Indian folklore instead becomes all-too real as ancient demonic spirits turn six teens’ lakeside weekend into a blood-soaked battle for survival. It seems the land sits on a Cherokee burial ground, and the blood of one unwitting youngster rouses the evil demons — who begin to possess their human visitors. Ramona Midgett, Lisa Morrison …
Read More »Film Review: Gamer (2009)
SYNOPSIS: It’s 2034, and humans can control and kill each other in a large-scale online gaming world. But Kable (Gerard Butler), a wrongfully convicted soldier forced to join the violent competition, tries to free himself by taking out its evil architect, Ken (Michael C. Hall). While being controlled by a rich kid (Logan Lerman), Kable must also save his wife, …
Read More »Film Review: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
SYNOPSIS: Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her. REVIEW: I actually enjoy watching bad movies. They usually make me laugh or sometimes it can even make me feel like I may have a chance at writing …
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