Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Young Nicholas Grim is forced to witness the brutal murder of his parents by Armed Militant Forces in Texas. Now an adult, Grim vows to avenge his family and uncover their killer’s motives. REVIEW: Good day to you my acolytes & those who are soon to be acolytes. Your accommodations in my acolyte barracks is ready …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband’s sinister secret? REVIEW: Director: Peter Askin Writer: Stephen King Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Joan Allen Stephen King. We all know him. He’s given us a litany of great tales like Cujo, Creepshow, etc, etc, etc. When I found that A Good …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree. REVIEW: I knew pretty much nothing about The Witch Who Came from the Sea  (1976) before I saw it so I went into it totally blind as I didn’t have a clue what it was about (to be honest I had …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sleepwalking teen straps a camera to himself and discovers a sinister family secret. REVIEW: Of all the horror subgenres, the most inconsistent one of them all is the werewolf film. There’s a handful of really great ones (THE HOWLING, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and GINGER SNAPS to name a few) but the mediocre and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A cannibalistic caterer prepares a grand feast for the Egyptian goddess who has him under her control. No pork pies or scotch eggs for goddess Ishtar though – only the finest young women will do, chopped up to bits and dressed up as party food. Tasty. REVIEW: “I’ve always compared Blood Feast to a Walt Whitman …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans by the millions watch criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife’s murder. Sent to Terminal Island, he’s offered …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A bullied teenager named Lincoln unwittingly unleashes the vengeful spirit of a teenage girl name Moira (who killed herself as a result of all the bullying she was forced to endure) who proceeds to kill off all of the people that are tormenting him. It isn’t long though before Moira starts taking out seemingly innocent people …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: License to Drive meets Deliverance when Scott (Desmond Harrington) crashes into a carload of three other young people (Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto and Emmanuelle Chriqui). The foursome is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they’re hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured via generations of inbreeding. Should’ve called AAA!

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In a small town near Denver, two young men begin to explore a long-abandoned old mine recently re-opened by a group of minors. When one the men is discovered missing, his friends begin a search that leads them to horrifying consequences. They’re all unaware of the evil that’s been unleashed and soon, one by one, a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mother’s grief over the death of her toddler leads to horror. REVIEW: It may ruffle feathers, but I’ve never been able to get into “Rosemary’s Baby.”  Though I enjoy Ira Levin‘s novel and appreciate Roman Polanski’s artful interpretation (we’ll pretend this year’s made-for-television debacle never happened), that nagging sensation of being bored to tears still …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a tragic car accident kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead. REVIEW: Sometimes, when you re-watch a movie that you originally watched ages ago, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives. REVIEW: As far as horror sub-genres go, I have never been particularly fond of torture p*rn. Oftentimes good story telling is neglected in favor or over-the-top gore and violence. While watching people get skinned alive is certainly cringe-worthy, I …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises to the audiences a journey to the “Imaginarium”, an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, to the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have more than …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Reno is a struggling artist who lives with his girlfriend and her lesbian lover. He is not the most stable guy in the world to begin with, but his sanity really starts to slip away even more as he tries to finish a painting; he is really stressing over the painting as it is. Add to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are enjoying a perfect honeymoon in Hawaii — until they run into a pair of menacing hikers, Nick (Timothy Olyphant) and Gina (Kiele Sanchez). As it turns out, the two are dangerous killers who begin stalking the not-so-happy couple. David Twohy wrote and directed this action-packed thriller, which …