Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A little girl is brutally slain by a vampire in a tiny 19th century Austrian village. Seeking revenge, the townspeople invade the foreboding castle of Count Mitterhaus and kill him for the crime. As the Count dies, he curses the villagers and vows that their children will all die so that he may someday return to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into his neck. He attempts to escape, but is surrounded by a sadistic family, who watch him with hungry eyes. The only chance for Armando’s survival in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie family happily lives in the countryside. REVIEW: Les Fines Bouches (aka The Foodies, but technically translated from French as The Fine Mouths) is a short film by the French writer/director team of Julien de Volte (see also his previous short film, Peine de Mort) and Arnaud Tabarly (started in visual effects, he has more …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A prominent New York City gang leader named Cyrus (Roger Hill) wants to wage an all-out battle against the police, and as part of his strategy he calls upon Gotham’s gangs to set aside their turf wars and come together at a summit. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Zombies vs Gangsters in Edinburgh’s Zombie Containment Centre. Based on a true story. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have PSYCHOPATHS 2:ZOMBIE ABATTOIR, directed by Craig Burrows & Mick Franklin When I saw the title, I wondered why it seemed familiar. Then I realized I reviewed the first film in this series, PSYCHOPATHS. That one …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a trip to the terrifying after finding a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions REVIEW: Written and directed by Andy Nyman (The Commuter, Severance) and Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen), Ghost Stories sees the duo bringing their critically lauded stage show to the big screen and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl (and her dad’s girlfriend) is kidnapped and held prisoner by a deranged man who killed her mother in front of her years earlier. REVIEW: I’d heard of this movie and remember seeing it in the video store back in the day but never took a chance on it because it just didn’t really …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sarah, a mentally-disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends’ impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable… or something entirely more sinister REVIEW: I am at a loss.  I cannot bring myself to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sir Robert Cargrave is an eminent surgeon who has developed a new technique for muscle relaxation. He is summoned by his one-time love, Maude, who is now married to Baron Sardonicus. When he arrives, he finds villagers who live in fear. The Baron is strange man, not the least because he covers his face with a …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true. REVIEW:

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A 747 carrying three hundred passengers crashes killing everyone on board but the pilot. The sole survivor miraculously walks away unharmed, with no memory of what caused the crash. The victim’s ghosts return to haunt the lone survivor while taking vengeance on anyone who desecrates their memory. REVIEW: 1981’s The Survivor was produced during the 70’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Steve Railsback gives a haunting performance as charismatic cult leader Charles Manson in this graphic three-hour made-for-TV movie about the grisly Sharon Tate/La Bianca murders orchestrated by Manson. Based on Vince Bugliosi’s novel, the movie demonstrates the almost hypnotic pull Manson exerted over his impressionable followers — a devotion that led to the brutal killings in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left. REVIEW: Open Water is a 2003 horror movie shot on a shoe-string budget about the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, a vacationing couple that went scuba diving in 1998 in the Bahamas and were …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A bizarre stranger crashes a homecoming party and forces all the teens to identify the person they hate the most. Soon, those singled out by the partygoers begin turning up dead at the hands of a spooky, hooded killer. Worse, the surviving kids realize that one boy at the party claimed to hate them all, so …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Born Again, about five bumbling satanists whose summoning ceremony goes horribly right. It features Ellie Church (Frankenstein Created Bikers). REVIEW: