Film Reviews

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities REVIEW: 19 years in the making, seems like a unexpected time span that many noted directors shouldn’t have to wait (in order to fulfill a trilogy). In the case of renowned director M. Night Shyamalan, it …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Director Noboru Iguchi and gore master Yoshihiro Nishimura team up for this hyper-violent and hilariously grotesque depiction of a very angry army of butt sword-wielding geisha robots with enough strength to embed tempura shrimp in villains’ eyes. Special effects in Iguchi’s (Machine Girl) over-the-top, feminist melodrama include chainsaw lips, blood-spouting buildings, geisha transformers, machine gun bras …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: Directed by Dakota Thomas Written by Dakota Thomas and Christian Valencia This little number is an in depth look into one of mankind’s evolutionary senses. The mighty sense I am referring to is ….confusion. I know what your thinking “confusions not a sense”. My rebuttal? It’s the only sense this makes. Feeling confused about a film …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bound together by a desire to play “Mazes and Monsters,” Robbie and his three college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern. REVIEW: The 1982 film Mazes and Monsters is interesting only in the sense that it is completely and utterly full of crap. An adaption of the Rona Jaffe novel …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In Gracefield, Québec, three couples looking to spend a long weekend in a luxurious cabin receive an uninvited guest after a meteorite lands nearby. REVIEW: Director: Mathieu Ratthe Writer: Mathieu Ratthe Starring: Mathieu Ratthe, Kimberly Laferriere, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Laurence Dauphinais, Alex C. Nachi, Juliette Gosselin The Gracefield Incident is a found footage alien flick from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Who is on the other side of the window? The delirium, the paranoia and the fusion REVIEW: Written by Ramiro Giroldo and directed by Larissa Anzoategui (the Brazilian husband and wife duo that also created Red Hookers, Fatal, and Astaroth), A Janela da Outra (or The Window of the Other) is a story that treads in …