Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Yoga classes to rejuvenate, but at what cost? REVIEW: Korean horror mystery The Cursed Lesson by Jai-hong Juhn and Ji-han Kim offers repetitive scares, lacklustre tension and very little originality. Hyo-jung (Lee Chae-young) is young woman struggling with typical superficial insecurities that most women at least point in their life struggle with. Even though there is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Faking a Murderer follows two filmmakers on their noble yet perhaps misguided quest to track down a seedy-looking stranger they’ve discovered online who — in a disturbing video — seemingly confesses to a murder. Or at least that’s what they think. Seeing the popularity of true crime shows, they decide to try and turn this discovery …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Se-jin, a young woman who lives in an old apartment in a Seoul suburb, amuses herself by observing the windows of the apartments on the other side. One day, she notices that the lights of some of these apartments are turned off at the very same time. She begins to suspect that this pattern is somehow …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Monette, a recently separated travelling book salesman tells his grim story to both a priest and a hitchhiker, looking for absolution. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MUTE, written and directed by Kyle Dunbar, based on a short story by Stephen King. The short story was first published in Playboy Magazine in 2007 and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The third feature from British filmmaker Ruth Platt, and the feature adaptation of her short by the same name, MARTYRS LANE is a captivating ghost story fairy tale centered on young Leah, the daughter of a vicar, and the mysterious visitor that comes to her room every night with gifts and riddles. A rare film where …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lonely teen discovers her family’s ties to witchcraft. REVIEW: Witchcraft is a mysterious concept. To some, it’s about Halloween stories and costumes. To others, it’s a dangerous curse that can be mistaken for a gift. Discover how twisted this curse can get in “Hellbender” which made its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: From the director of DISTRICT 9 and ELYSIUM, a young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades old rift between mother and daughter are revealed.  REVIEW: Directed and written by Neill Blomkamp (Elysium. Chappie), Demonic The film opens with Carly Pope playing Carly. Carly is having one hell of a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In this anthology based on real nightmares, monstrous entities of various shapes and sizes prey upon the living with terrifying results. REVIEW: Director: Alexander Henderson Writers: Alexander Henderson, Michael Coulombe, Barrington Malcolm, Curtis McGann, Tony Savero Starring: Adam Cabrera, Rosa Fortuny, Dan Garland, Nicoletta Hanssen, D’Kia Anderson The Red Nightmare (2021) is an unusual anthology of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four witches…only one will be chosen. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have 4OUR, written and directed by Charles Chudabala. Four members of a witches’ coven are meeting for what appears to be the last time. This last ritual, honoring the Blood Moon, will end their association. One of them will “ascend” and the others…well, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A “spiritual sequel” to the horror film Candyman (1994) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began. REVIEW: Directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and Nia DaCosta. We decided to make up and go see the movie in the theatre. COVID and life in general is stressful enough. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: So it turns out young Jason Voorhees didn’t drown after all, he somehow found a way to shore where he crawled into the woods to spend the next 30 years living off the land and occasionally killing people all while wearing a burlap sack over his head. As luck would have it he also accidentally witnesses …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Some plucky college aged kids find themselves reopening a summer camp despite the dark cloud and pile of dead bodies that surround it. As the partying begins, the clothes come off and the pots smoked, the kids find them selves killed one by one in increasingly creative ways. Who is behind this killing spree and who will …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins. REVIEW: Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Jake Weber and countless other fantastic actors in a twisted tale of ghosts and trauma? Yes, please. “What Josiah Saw” made its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival and the dark tone was …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Entrusted with protecting a mysterious package, pilot officer Maude joins the crew of the B-17 bomber The Fool’s Errand and finds that to complete her mission she will have to survive a flight besieged by enemy aircraft and a monstrous stowaway.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dave reluctantly pretends to be the manager of Hotel Poseidon, where fungus covers the walls and comments such as “faded glory” and “has seen better times” completely fall short to describe this establishment. He wanders the corridors of his personal Overlook Hotel like a zombie, being a passive spectator to what happens around him – whether …