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 …
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Film Review: The Red Nightmare (2021)
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 …
Read More »Film Review: 4OUR (short film) (2021)
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, …
Read More »Film Review: Candyman (2021)
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. …
Read More »Film Review: Friday the 13th – Part 2 (1981)
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 …
Read More »Film Review: Friday the 13th (1980)
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 …
Read More »Film Review: What Josiah Saw (2021)
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 …
Read More »Film Review: Shadow In The Cloud (2020)
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.
Read More »Film Review: Hotel Poseidon (2021)
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 …
Read More »Film Review: Brain Freeze (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A fertilizer used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass? REVIEW: Winter has frozen over l’Ile-aux-Paons (Peacock Island), in the middle of a scorching summer with the world …
Read More »Film Review: Too Late (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lonely assistant finally finds love and must escape her monster of a boss before she and her new love become his next meal. REVIEW: Balancing comedy and horror is a very fine tightrope to walk, and much harder to pull off properly than it would first seem; veer too hard towards the comedy and you …
Read More »Film Review: Shook (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A wannabe social media influencer is stalked by what seems to be a vindictive killer, but becomes shook when friends turn out to be dangerous enemies. REVIEW: Director: Jennifer Harrington Writer: Alesia Glidewell (story), Jennifer Harrington (story and script) Starring: Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener, Stephanie Simbari, Octavius J. Johnson, Grant Rosenmeyer Shook (2021) is …
Read More »Film Review: Dismebodied (short film) (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lovelorn underdog buys a novelty meteorite as part of a romantic gesture to win his ex back, but when the gift proves to have a mind of its own, he must purge himself of the parasitic entity before it consumes him. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have DISEMBODIED, written and directed by Jason …
Read More »Film Review: Sadako (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera. REVIEW: As the name would suggest, Sadako is the latest instalment in Hideo Nakata’s Ring film franchise. Unfortunately, it fails to bring on the terror and …
Read More »Film Review: Mind Games (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Army psychologist held captive by an unknown adversary must find her way out of an RV in the middle of nowhere to survive. REVIEW: Not since I viewed Pink Floyd’s The Wall for the first time in the late 80s (replete with brain sogged by alternative substances as it happened) have I had as much …
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