Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel “The Mysterious Island”, the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon! Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS:  An American priest travels to Italy to study at an exorcism school where he is introduced to a mysterious exorcist. REVIEW: So much snow on the ground dear readers. Some would say too much snow. I am one of those people. The skies have been very angry over NY as of late and all they do …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple are haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment. REVIEW: On the wave of the supernatural thrillers to come out this year, comes an interesting premise starring Ashley Greene in the role of Kelly. It seems that the fascination of restless spirits and metaphysics has never quite settled down from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family hires a deprogrammer to rescue its youngest member from a cult. Too bad the cult isn’t just going to let him go that easily and they end up terrorizing the family (who have taken refuge at a cabin in the woods), killing anyone that gets in their way, demanding that they return him to them.  REVIEW: I’ve …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS:  After receiving a hot tip that a highly classified test has been scheduled at a top secret military base, a trio of reporters stakes out the base to get the story. As the evening progresses, they eventually learn the full import of what is being tested and how far the members of a clandestine organization will go …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Michael Briskett meets the perfect woman, his ideal Christmas dream comes true when she invites him to her family’s holiday celebration. Dreams shattered, Michael struggles to survive once he realizes HE will be Christmas dinner. REVIEW: “Mercy Christmas” has restored my faith in both the titular holiday and the future of indie film making. Michael …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The fully grown and muscular, yet only two- year-old offspring of a human father and subhumanoid mother, Adlai Smith must protect his beloved Tromaville from an evil corporation and his evil twin brother hell-bent on turning the town into a toxic wasteland. REVIEW: When you watch a Troma movie you are not going into it expecting …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A portrait of contemporary youth culture, where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results. REVIEW: From out of the Artsploitation Films collective of releases arrives a somewhat hallucinary film titled” Toad Road”. The film was acquired by SpectreVision, an Elijah Wood company. While it seems that the release has had a pretty …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five horror stars ditch an autograph session to make guest appearances at a haunted RV park. Instead of easy work and fake ghouls, they find the horrors within to be real. REVIEW: The first smothering in Smothered takes place around the four-minute mark.  A man is suffocated by a pair of very large breasts belonging to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death REVIEW: With all the facets of horror films coming these days, it’s always great to see one that directly appeals to our fears that doesn’t directly involve being sawed to pieces or …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Marooned on a deserted planet, and picked up by an old, derelict spaceship, six unwitting travelers find themselves enslaved by a madman. Picking them off one by one, they quickly learn there are some things worse than death. REVIEW: There’s a lesson to be learned from Harry Tchinski’s 2011 film, Spaceship Terror. If, at any point in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sleek, possessed black car terrorizes everyone it comes in contact with in a small town in Utah.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As a youngster, Griffin (Jay Underwood) saw his parents brutally murdered by a sadistic serial killer named The Sandman. Justice was served when the captured killer was convicted and executed for his heinous crimes. But now, freed from his mortal coil, The Sandman has returned to mete out vengeance in the guise of The Sleepstalker. And …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS:  young aspiring film student Isabelle sets off to interview several residents of an impoverished housing complex. One incident goes awry after another as she quickly realizes the inhabitants are addicted to a special kind of marijuana with sinister side effects. Will Isabelle be able to escape the relentless clutches of the depraved or will she become …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to …