Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sean, a pro hockey enforcer, has fallen in love with Laura, a widowed mother of four young daughters. When Laura’s children mistake an act of lovemaking as an attack, they plot to protect their mother at all costs and with horrific results. REVIEW: Directed by Bennet De Brabandere and written by Bennet De Brabandere and Zion …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged “Satanic sacrifice” during the summer of 1984. REVIEW: Directed and written by Dan Jones and Jesse Pollack. Over the years, I’ve heard the story of Richard “Ricky” Kasso and The Knights of the Black Circle. The Acid King opens …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A writer struggling with writer’s block heads out to a cabin in the middle of nowhere only to discover she isn’t alone. REVIEW: Written, produced, and directed by Cindy Stenberg, The Bellringer is a fun little, short horror film that I really enjoyed. It looks great, has an interesting premise, and the small amount of gore …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In supernatural drama The Girl in the Woods, monsters are real, kept at bay behind a mysterious door in a cult-like colony. Teenage runaway Carrie’s job is to guard that door, but when strange occurrences begin to shake the sleepy mining town to its core, she must enlist the help of new friends Nolan and Tasha. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities. REVIEW: In the annals of cinefantastique history, there is something of a linking narrative between the best of cinema that manifests into a solid platform on which to build that classic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared. REVIEW: Like many of us Nicolas Cage fans, the arrival of a fantasy apocalyptic film that features Cage as the main attraction is a project worth paying attention to. One such movie is the latest release directed …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: From the Director of award-winning and critically acclaimed genre hit’s The Dead and The Dead 2, India, and national film award winner ‘Never Let Go’, comes a heart pounding journey through Lockdown in ‘The Lockdown Hauntings’. Set and shot in the first UK Lockdown due to Coronavirus, this film promises to take audiences back on a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a deadly experiment on a rat goes wrong, the mutated rat has been let loose in a city and a group of detectives are on the hunt for the beast. Zoologist, Allen Marsh must work alongside a grieving widow to help detectives capture and exterminate the mutated rat. As the body count rises, no one …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and learns that there is more to fear than just cabin fever. REVIEW: Directed and written by Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, Shelter in Place opens with Robert Caustin (Jey Reynolds) in what seems to be an okay situation until all hell breaks loose within seconds. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse. REVIEW: A few months ago I was at the movies with my 11 year old son (Lil’ Black Saint) and we saw the trailer for “ParaNorman“. From that moment forward we anxiously awaited …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In this breathtaking stop-motion animation based on Neil Gaiman’s novel, curious young Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) unlocks a door in her family’s home and is transported to a universe that strangely resembles her own — only better. But when her Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) doesn’t want Coraline to return to reality, our heroine must summon …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrioress Selene leads the battle against humankind. REVIEW: I never expected the “Underworld” franchise to get this far. After the 2nd one I truly expected any further entries in the series to go straight to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), courageous Lucian (Michael Sheen) leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor (Bill Nighy). Determined to break the king’s enslavement of his people, Lucian …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS follows Vampire death dealer, Selene as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father, Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in …