Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Desperate for money to pay off a debt a trio of friends pose as wait staff at a private party with the intentions of stealing as much money from the party goers as possible. Unfortunately for them though, the people at the party aren’t exactly what they seem, and it could be the last party that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of female friends celebrating the holidays together are terrorized by a homicidal maniac in a Santa Claus suit on Christmas Eve. REVIEW: Off the top of my head I can think of several Christmas-themed horror films that feature some whacko dressed like Santa Claus who enjoys spending the holidays hacking people to pieces. Some …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. REVIEW: Production Company A24’s output of late has been fairly fabulous. Whilst the navel gazing …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends try to debunk a local legend, but have they bitten off more than they can chew? When Eddie and his friends decide to take their cameras into the woods to debunk the legend of Blood Moon River, they soon realize that they may have bitten off more than they can chew. After …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right and everyone is out to get you and there isn’t a damn thing you can do – or is there? Life’s a bitch, and then you die. REVIEW: In a world where nothing ever seems to go right, bad luck abounds, and every single human being …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call REVIEW: End Call is a 2008 Japanese teen horror directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto and starring Yuria Haga, Asami Usuda and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Leatherface and his demented family terrorize two couples on the way home from their prom. REVIEW: While I love the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 1974, I must admit that I thought all the films that followed it in the series were quite lousy. The second one was just way too goofy and comedic for …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. REVIEW: A reasoned person would not necessarily need a lecture by Al Gore or Erin Brockovich to be enlightened on the fact that our constant reliance on chemical products unleashes a particularly severe level of harm to not just our ecological system …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The members of an all-female film club unleash a bloodthirsty evil when they uncover a rumor of a former club member disappearing. The group is determined to figure out what happened, and use it as inspiration for a school project. REVIEW: Gurozuka is an attempt on the slasher genre by the director Yoichi Nishiyama. I use …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hercules must journey in Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness. REVIEW: When this movie started, I was surprised to see that Mario Bava was the director. I only knew of his contributions to horror cinema had influenced many other Italian directors over the years, so …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An inconspicuous keen connoisseur of debasement and hardened bondage specialist executes innocently eager models for profit, nevertheless, her latest quarry won’t go down without a fight. REVIEW: The Hornet’s Sting and the Hell It’s Caused (2014) is a bare-bones, stripped down, shot on video slasher film, featuring a minimal amount of settings and focused on very …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Seven young people see a car accident on the way to a friend’s wedding, and they do not try to rescue the wounded. Their car breaks down soon after and horrible things occur one after another. REVIEW: Haunted Road is a 2014 Chinese horror directed by Yijian Tong. It tries very hard to use horror as …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego “Venom” to save his life. REVIEW: Straight off the Marvel shelves of new movies and exciting characters, we are again revisited by the villain Venom. Though unlike previous films of this universe that have introduced villains per way of Spiderman …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: With many people fearing the actions of super heroes, the government decides to push for the Hero Registration Act, a law that limits heroes and their actions. This results in a division within The Avengers. Iron Man stands with this act, claiming that heroes and their actions must be kept in check otherwise cities will continue …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A three-film anthology focusing on female apparition who appears to different people in different circumstances, but always with horrific results. REVIEW: Directed by Ataru Oikawa, Tomie: Another Face is based on the manga by Junji Ito and features three separate stories with one common thread — the protagonists in all three tales are haunted by Tomie, …