Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Carl Foster takes off on a well-deserved weekend break with his family knowing only too well that focus on work has impacted his relationship with his wife, young son, and teenage step-daughter. But after a short but restful break in the journey Carl awakens to find himself tied and bound in an old roadside diner, his …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Butcher Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up: Squeamy Ellis, Joe Marcelli and Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them and dies without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler. REVIEW: Director: Kazuo “Gaira” Komizu Cast: Keiko Asano, Saeko Kizuki, Ayu Kiyokawa, Ryota Sakanishi, Hirokazu Yoshihara, Hitomi Kazama The Examination: Sicko exploitation film from 1987 featuring a few disgusting scenes of torture along …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran. REVIEW: The all American dream kills. A man/woman’s quest to succeed coming from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In “Devil’s Mercy,” a couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in the attic. When their friends and guests abruptly go missing or die mysteriously, it becomes a race against time as the family’s lives are in peril. REVIEW: Tyler (Stephen …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds, and can inflict enormous pain and damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn’t, and converts him to their …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: It’s 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows? As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the stalker studies the girls. One by one he finds the girls at …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: You don’t want to get in the way of Phantom Racer, a race car possessed by the soul of its former driver — a man who lost his life in a car crash. Blaming rival J.J. Sawyer (Greg Evigan) for his death, the ghost driver is hell-bent on getting revenge. Luciana Carro plays Dep. Monroe, whose …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five female filmmakers en route to screen their new horror film in Los Angeles, experience their own real life terror when they cross paths with deranged scientist hellbent on using them for his twisted experiments. REVIEW: The mad scientist in Ryan M. Andrews’ Save Yourself is a brooding, old-timey country man. At first he seems warm …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A pair of misguided drug dealers, Baking Soda (Howard Calvert) and G.E.D. (Jamelle Kent), find themselves out of customers when a new group of traffickers invade their hood with an alien form of smack. With only their friend Kreech Da Black Kreecha from a Lagoon at their side, the two crack heads – armed and ready – …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home. REVIEW: Sometimes a movie’s title is so apt that it’s almost scary. This could be because the filmmakers carefully chose the name of their work to give you an idea of what you’re about to watch. Other times, it’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jerry is a strange and solitary boy who lives with his young neglectful mother in a run down apartment. He spends his weekends hidden away in his bedroom making model figurines and watching TV alone. REVIEW: Yet another short film, kiddies! Today we have a film from Ireland called BOX ROOM, written by Michael Lathrop and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Horrific, disturbing and absolutely fascinating, the Emmy nominated Paradise Lost 2: Revelations reviews the chilling saga from HBO’s award winning hit, Paradise Lost: The child murders at Robin Hood Hills. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky return to West Memphis, Arkansas to reexamine the most notorious murder case in the state’s history, revealing startling new evidence and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On their first night at a new, secluded house, a couple (Esin Harvey, Gorkem Mertsoz) encounter the mysterious woman (Derya Alabora – A Most Wanted Man, When We Leave) who claims it to be her home. REVIEW: The fact that Naciye is writer/director Lutfu Emre Cicek’s first feature length film kind of blows my mind. He’s …

Rate This Movie REVIEW:  Maniacal is another in the line of independent horror anthologies put together by the fine folks at Trash Arts Films. What stands out right away about this one is the set-up: rather than just featuring film after film, or having a “host” in between segments to introduce each new story, Maniacal employs a wraparound that functions …