Film Reviews

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, …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A meteor that crashed into Oregon’s Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals. REVIEW: Good or bad, I have a particular favored-bias towards 70’s horror films. Maybe it’s that certain beauty that comes with the routine of shooting …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tough police officer Johan van de Veer wakes up startled one night in his police car by the noise of two brats disrupting the official communication channel. When the prank turns into a serious cry for help, the connection is lost and the boys find themselves in need. Johan tries to get in contact with the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Years after killing her mother when her two clown dolls advised it as a solution to her stress over keeping her mother’s (Lucia Sullivan) infidelity from her father (Jeff Zukowski), schizophrenic teen Rachel (Christina Rosenberg) has another break in the wake of a tragedy in this psychological thriller. After her beloved dad dies in a car …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Locked in an office block with a sadistic clown, the staff must try to escape before being raped and murdered. REVIEW: Director: Mark J. Howard Writer: Mark J. Howard Starring: Jessica Cunningham, Roy Basnett, Stephen Greenhalgh, James Thompson, Tim Paley, Jeff Downs, Rachel Dargie Until I slogged through Clown Kill (also known as Lock In), my …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While transporting the unstoppable killer Bonejangles to an asylum, a group of police officers encounter a hellish pit stop: a cursed town where the dead rise from their graves. Now the only way to save their lives and the town is to release Bonejangles and fight the curse…with something much worse. REVIEW: Make a horror that’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Evil Angel takes the ancient myth of Lilith into the 21st century with a murderously sexy and seductive villainess who, as the earth’s first woman, proudly lays claim to being the world’s first serial killer. “Jewish mythology describes Lilith as Adam’s first wife in the Garden of Eden,” says writer/director Richard Dutcher. “When she refused to …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Fame-hungry Gemma asks her boyfriend Danny and his media student mate Nathan to film her Big Brother audition. They hear about a sex party and change course, but soon wish they hadn’t as the party goers turn out to be devil worshippers. REVIEW: “The Tapes” is another entry in the tired (or not-so-tired, depending on your point …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of ‘magic’, they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real REVIEW: One of the masters of modern horror, Halloween director John Carpenter once …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into there snack burgers. Now, Derek must save the day and the world with his chainsaw before the meat eaters strikes …