Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mysterious entity haunts a man after his brother goes missing. REVIEW: I feel this film is most enjoyed when you don’t try and figure it out and you simply let the unnerving atmosphere just wash over you. The Still Born uses a voice over to great effect – mostly because it is used so sparsely …
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Film Review: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (Gon-ji-am) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building. REVIEW: Ever since the release of The Blair witch Project in 1999, found footage horror has been here to stay. No longer is it …
Read More »Film Review: All Through the Night (short film) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A police chief who hates Christmas. A rotten Mayor exploiting holiday tourism in the dreamy town of White Cliffs. And a psychotic murderer that would literally KILL to keep the traditional spirit of Christmas alive. Welcome to White Cliffs, where it’s Christmas ALL year long!” REVIEW: I love a cheesy Christmas horror and All Through the …
Read More »Film Review: The Visitor (short film) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Someone goes about their evening, unaware that they have a “visitor”. REVIEW: I have to say, to begin with, I wasn’t feeling all that impressed with The Visitor. I think the filmmakers were definitely going for a low budget feel, which I fully appreciate, but the way they went about it somehow just didn’t grab me. …
Read More »Film Review: Fateful Findings (2013)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A computer scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend and hacks into government databases, while facing the dire and fateful consequences of his mystical actions obtained as a child. REVIEW: I know that when I agreed to do reviews for bad movies, I knew there would be days where I would beginning to question my life choices. …
Read More »Film Review: Cherokee Creek (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A bachelor party in the woods gets crashed by the ultimate party animal. REVIEW: One of the pure joys of reviewing independent film is that it’s a sub-level of film making that isn’t inhibited as much by the parameters set by financial backers of the big budget mainstream industry. The companies with the gajillion (not a …
Read More »Film Review: Howard Lovecraft Trilogy Films
Rate This Movie I admit that I am not sure how to approach a review of the kid-friendly, animated “Howard Lovecraft” movies, so I’m thinking maybe lumping them all together would be best as they act like episodes in a weekly series. The basic elements, both good and bad, of all the films stay consistent throughout the trilogy with the …
Read More »Film Review: Sweet Kitty (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Friends are put to the ultimate test when a Demon invades their internet startup. REVIEW: Sweet Kitty is a 2017 film written and directed by Kurt Nangle. Unlike other films of the genre, “Sweet kitty” takes more of a high-tech startup approach than other films I’ve seen as of late setting foundation in a very silicon …
Read More »Film Review: The Black Gestapo (1975)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed’s second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into …
Read More »Film Review: Anatomia Extinction (Genkai jinko keisu) (1995)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Independent film from 1995 that “Tokyo Gore Police” is based on. Nishimura’s debut film. REVIEW: The rather oddly titled Anatomia Extinction is an avant-garde horror/sci-fi hybrid by the director/special effects artist Yoshihiro Nishimura. A precursor to Tokyo Gore Police (2008), it is a bizarre trip of giallo like beauty and gross out body horror, all tied in …
Read More »Film Review: We Summoned a Demon (short film) (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: They just wanted to be cool. Instead, they got a demon. REVIEW: The funniest, most random, and touching horror short that I have seen in a long while. This short was a lot of fun and completely worth the 5 min it took to watch it!. Written and directed by Chris McInroy Released by Garth Manor …
Read More »Film Review: Adventures of Electric Rod Boy (Denchu kozo no Boken) (1987)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hikari is a boy who is bullied and teased by the other boys at school because he has the odd distinction of having an electricity pole growing out of his back. However, one of his classmates, a girl named Momo, comes to his rescue. Hikari thanks her by sharing his secret possession with her: a time …
Read More »Film Review: Werewolf (1995)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the discovery of a werewolf skeleton in the Arizona desert. REVIEW: You know you’re in for a treat (to use the term loosely) when a movie you have to review was once in an episode of the original Mystery Science Theater 3000. After …
Read More »Film Review: Double Blind (short film) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Starring Trent Agnew as the escapee, with Link Teale and Ryan Tarran as the reluctant security guards stuck with the clean up job REVIEW: Director – Dave Greiner Writers – Dave Keane / Dave Greiner / Ryan Tarran Stunts – Ryan Tarran / Wes Gorman Props, SFX and VFX – Daniel Turner / Wes Gorman Sound …
Read More »Film Review: Good Girl (short film) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Good Girl a stylish short film that plays on the depravity of one’s psychological dominance over another. REVIEW: Written by Bradley Fowler and Wesley Alley Directed by Wesley Alley Starring; Zack Ward as Charles Amanda Markowitz as Helen Maitlyn Pezzo as Elizabeth The film begins with Charles and Helen celebrating a tenth year anniversary. Helen …
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