Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The remaining tenants of a rundown poverty-row apartment building, one day away from demolition, suddenly find themselves under siege by a cannibal cult that has been terrorizing the city and their preacher like female leader known only as “The Woman”. Why this preacher has picked them as her latest victims is unknown, but her plan for …
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Film Review: The Sadness
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. …
Read More »Film Review: Vodi (short film) (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A cartoonist returns to his family home to seek his fortune in Hollywood, where he’s plagued by strange visions and revelations of his family’s bizarre history with a forgotten cartoon character that could be his ticket to success. REVIEW: Vodi is a 2020 short film directed by Nath Milburn (written by Luke Baker & Nath Milburn) …
Read More »Review: Lobster Girl and Other Tales by Jon Morvay
Rate This Movie The story of Lobster Girl comes out of the dark and tormented mind of artist and filmmaker Jon Morvay. You get the tingling sense that this is the same darkness that the work of Clive Barker comes from. It’s a well told tale with gripping narration and violent imagery. They match each other flawlessly. This film brings …
Read More »Film Review: Star Vehicle (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Star Vehicle” follows the downward spiral of movie driver Donald Cardini, a self-professed movie buff with a penchant for explosive violence when provoked. Driving the stars of low-budget movies, along with their fragile egos, to and from locations in the middle of nowhere, pushes Don’s buttons in all of the wrong directions. When Luke, the young …
Read More »Film Review: Zu, Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the Tang Dynasty, an army deserter is saved from vampires by a mysterious swordsman, only to be enlisted in his hunt for the Blood Devil. They are aided by a whirlwind of celestial spirits and master swordsmen… OR, in the other version, a modern Hong Kong student, studying in England finds himself whisked back to …
Read More »Film Review: Meeting (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman organizes a meet-up party at her mother’s house where things go awfully wrong and some of the guests disappear mysteriously. They keep on haunting her in unexpected circumstances. REVIEW: Abuse in a family relationship often is not even about the physical, yet can be as ugly, as life-altering of a scar left on …
Read More »Film Review: Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui) (1980)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rickshaw driver’s wife and his rich client are secret lovers, and they decide to get rid of him without being implicated, so they hire a powerful sorcerer to kill him, but the sorcerer’s colleague intervenes to protect him. REVIEW: I have said it before and will say it again: mixing horror with comedy is a …
Read More »Film Review: Alone in the Dark (1982)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four homicidal maniacs escape from an insane asylum when a black out causes the state of the art security system keeping them locked up malfunctions. After killing some staff members of the asylum they head toward their new psychiatrist’s house (who they want to kill as they think that he murdered the psychiatrist that he replaced), …
Read More »Film Review: Dark Figures (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five friends accidentally awaken an ancient evil while hiking in Arizona. They must fight to survive both a demonic spirit and the small tribe who worships it. REVIEW: Some movies you remember from their opening scene until your dying day. Other movies slide out of your memory as life gives you more and more to remember …
Read More »Film Review: Dementia 13 (1963)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won’t get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran dies if John is dead. Louise forges a letter from John to convince the rest of his family he’s been called to New York on important business, and goes to his Irish ancestral home, Castle Haloran, to …
Read More »Film Review: Momma, Don’t Go (short film) (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mother and daughter struggle to survive a deadly home invasion. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MOMMA, DON’T GO, written and directed by Rafael De Leon. This one is a little rough, at least the situation is a bit triggery. Our story opens in the middle of a brutal home invasion. One person …
Read More »Film Review: The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family’s matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy. REVIEW: In today’s world, being attracted to someone of the same sex, although widely accepted, still unfortunately and sadly rubs some people the wrong way. …
Read More »Film Review: Midnight Snack (Short Film) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sit down, relax, let the clock strike twelve, and allow your subconscious to become hypnotized by the Biblical droning of a possessed television. We promise to satisfy your hunger, your thirst and your sweet tooth. REVIEW: The Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2021 is one extraordinary film festival. The way the films are set up in certain …
Read More »Film Review: The Last Matinee (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The audience attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema are terrorized by a murderer who begins to pick them off, one by one. The only person to notice that something strange is going on is the projectionist’s daughter. REVIEW: Directed by Maxi Contenti (Muñeco viviente V, Neptunia) from a script by Manuel Facal (High Five, …
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