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Film Review: Dante’s Inferno (2010)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Traveling beyond death to rescue his love, Beatrice, from evil Lucifer, Dante enters the nine circles of hell, battling the vicious demons and monsters he encounters in this spectacular animated retelling of Dante Alighieri’s classic morality tale. A companion to EA’s video game, the action-packed medieval journey features the voices of Mark Hamill, Victoria Tennant, Vanessa …

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Film Review: Superstition (1982)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family moves into a long-condemned New England household with a big pond out back that everybody loves to swim in. Soon, however, they find that the pond was the site of the execution- by-drowning of a witch three hundred years before, and she’s back to revenge herself on anybody nearby, whether they’re Catholic or not. …

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Film Review: The Manitou (1978)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychic’s girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit. REVIEW: Oh yeah…Now we’re talking movie greatness acolytes! What’s that you say? You’ve never even heard of this movie before? If you’re one of the few that are actually admitting to that then …

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Film Review: Satan Returns (666: Mo gui fu huo) (1996)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she’s the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him. REVIEW: Satan Returns is a 1996 Hong Kong action horror by the director Wai-Lun Lam. It’s a very uneven …

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Film Review: The Phantom of Regular Size (short film) (1986)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man gradually transforms into a robotic, metal-encrusted monster. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! And I’m really excited about this one. Today we have Futsû saizu no kaijin (The Phantom of Regular Size), a film from 1986 written and directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto. Some of you out there may recognize the director’s name. That’s because he …

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Film Review: Meatball Machine: Reject of Death (Short Film) (2007)

Rate This Movie REVIEW: In 2005 the directors Yudai Yamaguchi and Jun’ichi Yamamoto came together create a film called Meatball Machine. Based on Yamamoto’s earlier work from 1999, it’s an aggressive cyberpunk, sci-fi/horror-hybrid romp about alien parasites turning their hosts unto slave “Necroborgs”. It was a breakthrough film for the special effect’s wizard Yoshihiro Nishimura, who would later on go …

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Film Review: Valentine (2001)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Years after mistreating a bullied teenager in middle school a group of friends become the target of someone looking for some bloody revenge. Is the person responsible the guy they made fun of all those years ago or is someone else the culprit? REVIEW: I saw Valentine in a theater on opening night back in 2001 …

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