Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. REVIEW: Excision, directed by Richard Bates Jr, is best described “a unique experience”. Not in the way that you would describe a film that is offbeat or marginally interesting. “Excision” lets …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When John takes his San Francisco friends to his deceased uncle’s remote ranch to hunt wild pigs, it seems like a typical guys weekend with guns – despite the presence of John’s sexy girlfriend Brooks. But as John and his crew trek deeper into the forest, they begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle’s demise …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out. Their evening of fun rapidly turns into their worst nightmare as they begin to die and disappear in the most freakish of manners. With …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger. REVIEW: Innocent Blood is a horror/comedy directed by John Landis. The performances in this movie are played …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Halloween Hell is a biting, satirical horror movie where a reality show’s contestants are trapped on set with a deadly Devil Doll from Hell, and a psychotic host who thinks he is Dracula. Directed by horror/sci fi cult favorite, Ed Hunt. REVIEW: A full moon illuminates the night of All Hallow’s Eve, kids loot for candy …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a nether realm called The Further. REVIEW: The definition for the word “Insidious” is basically “Intended to entrap”. And that is exactly what James Wan’s latest offering “Insidious” did to The Black Saint. I found myself entrapped, beguiled & plain flat out spooked …

SYNOPSIS: In a futuristic society, a sword-wielding roller skater fights evil ninjas, punk roller skaters and is sent on an important rescue mission REVIEW: There are movies that are just crap, and then there are movies so terrible that they actually transcend their crappiness to become something truly magical. You can’t help but watch in confusion and awe as the …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein’s granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse’s slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: This week’s public domain nugget is a little anti-classic with the self-explanatory title of …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Twenty years ago the town of Newt, Texas, exacted vengeance on the Sawyer family for their role in assisting and concealing murders committed by the chainsaw-wielding maniac Jeb Sawyer, aka “Leatherface”. The entire family was presumed killed when Burt Hartman led the townspeople to burn down their farmhouse, but the Sawyer infant survived and was secretly taken …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Holdens a young college student who has never believed in love at first sight …until he sees Sadie, a sweet young coed who is everything he’s ever wanted. But when Holden’s anti-social behavior gets in the way of his attempts to talk to her, his life starts to unravel. Holden believes he loves her and doesn’t …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus. REVIEW: It’s pretty safe to say that any real horror fan from the 80’s remembers the release of the “Re-Animator“. A film that also bases itself on …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A gang of demented killers dressed like clowns terrorize a group of friends stranded in a small town. REVIEW: I have always been scared of clowns and even before I saw movies such as Killer Klowns from Outer Space, It, and Clownhouse I was absolutely terrified of them. I just always thought that there was something …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler’s 25th Reich. REV IEW: Director/Writer Stephen Amis is someone I just have to meet. After seeing “The 25th Reich” I just wanna be able to pick this man’s brain and figure out …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Keegan returns to California’s wine valley to make peace with his estranged family, and finds a mystery that endangers the lives of the people he loves. REVIEW: Written and directed by Jody Wheeler (In the Closet, Judas Kiss) and produced by Blue Seraph Productions (Begging for Shorts, Something Like Summer), The Dark Place is a drama/mystery …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A pair of psychotic murders (who both really, really hate grapes) start a romantic relationship and start killing people together. REVIEW: I wasn’t sure what to expect with Psychos in Love.  I knew that it was going to be a horror comedy and in general I really am not a fan of these types of movies …