Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two fishermen in a Lousiana swamp encounter a mysterious creature in the water that claims the life of one of them as the remaining boater attempts to make sense of the tragedy. Later, a pair of college grad students make their way to town to investigate this supposed over-sized creature that is half-man and half-animal. …
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Film Review: The Amusement Park (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare. REVIEW: George Romero is one of the most important directors in all of horror, that’s not an opinion that’s a fact. He created the modern zombie genre and …
Read More »Film Review: Lisztomania (1975)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ken Russell, the director of Tommy and The Devils shifts into sensory overload with his hyper stylized biography of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt—a lascivious librettist who careens from proto pop stardom to Marxist revolutionary, ultimately becoming a catholic missionary to battle his arch nemesis —German composer Richard Wagner. Just picture the cult favorite cheese fest, rock …
Read More »Film Review: Heavy Metal (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A glowing green orb – which embodies ultimate evil – terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. REVIEW: It really goes without saying how awesome this film is. I had the privilege of viewing this movie in theatres in 1981 when it debuted and now …
Read More »Film Review: Heavy Traffic
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In this adult animated feature, aspiring cartoonist Michael falls in love with Carol, an African American bartender. The couple struggle to escape their hellish urban environment, but fate isn’t on their side. REVIEW: The seventies represented a golden decade for filmmaking, spawning some of the most important and personal works ever committed to celluloid. Taxi Driver, …
Read More »Film Review: Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
SYNOPSIS: A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute. REVIEW: “Thriller: A Cruel Picture” is one of the great “all time” grind house exploitation films of the 70’s. In fact, it was more than apparent …
Read More »Film Review: The Show (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man’s search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women. REVIEW: The movie “The Show” is a 2020 hypnotic new film directed by Mitch Jenkins, written by Alan Moore. Being a fan of Moore’s previous stories such as “Watchmen”, “From …
Read More »Film Review: Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music. REVIEW: Most of us older generations came to know Josie and the Pussycats back in its earlier cartoon days that ran a healthy comic run from 1963 to 1982. The series caught on and quickly evolved into …
Read More »Film Review: Skin Deep (1989)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A womanizing alcoholic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends. REVIEW: Blake Edwards “Skin Deep” arrived on the tail end of the 80’s featuring everyone’s favorite sitcom actor John Ritter as character Zachary “Zach” Hutton. …
Read More »Film Review: The Last American Virgin (1982)
SYNOPSIS: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals. REVIEW: Hey folks…another guilty pleasure review for me…not horror, but almost “culty” in its own respect. Arriving right at the start of the 1980’s rush of teen angst films arrived this …
Read More »Film Review: Lowlife (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong. REVIEW: If your movie fan like me, then in addition to finding cool horror films to talk about you are always on the look out for another abstract edgy kind of piece that encapsulates a …
Read More »Film Review: Straw Dogs (1971)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dustin Hoffman plays a regular American mathematician, who gets into some trouble with local bullies. He is made fun of and then his wife is raped. When they attack his home, he fights back. His outbreak of violence is extreme. Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife …
Read More »Film Review: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
Read More »Film Review: Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Read More »Film Review: Night of the Flesh Eaters (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the woods, no one can hear you eaten.. Starring James Lemire, Gia Franzia, David Rosenhaus, Eric Daman, Fred Stoverink, Jessica Green, J.R. McGarrity Written & Directed by J.R. McGarrity REVIEW: Talk about a crazy original piece, “Night of the Flesh Eaters” is exactly that, part horror and part comedy. From the getgo we are taken …
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