Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of strangers are trapped at a bus station during a rainstorm when some weird things start to happen and people start dying. REVIEW: I’ve heard a lot of great things about The Similars so I went into it with some pretty high expectations. It has gotten several glowing reviews and while it didn’t really …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland’s most famous legends is a terrifying reality. REVIEW: Over the past decade and a half, numerous attempts have been made to help wrestling stars break into mainstream television and film. Many of these attempts have led to wrestling stars have remaining relatively unknown. Their legacy …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Teens are slaughtered by a deranged killer in a pig mask. REVIEW: This sequel to 2010’s splatterfest “Porkchop” was released overseas under the much more lyrical title of “Porkchop II: Rise of the Rind“, I suspect to avoid confusing the more discerning slasher fanatic. No moniker applied, no matter how alliterative, however, can change this one …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Trapped inside a never-ending nightmare, a cat and mouse game plays out between a man and a hellish beast lurking in the shadows. REVIEW: More short films kiddies! Today we have LEVEL, writen and directed by Andrew Hunt. A few interesting things right of the bat – Mr. Hunt, according to IMDB, was a contestant on …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A struggling young actress meets a guy who claims to be a filmmaker who wants to work on a project with her. Unfortunately he’s actually a deranged killer who enjoys filming people as he murders them. Will she figure it out before it’s too late or is she destined to be the star of his next …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town’s deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home. REVIEW: In the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Inspired by true events that took place sometime in 1993, Jimmy & Jack DeGrasso, two brothers, went on a blood soaked killing spree of vengeance. Fueled by revenge & cocaine they slaughtered street thugs, hookers, addicts, and drug dealers to find the murderer of their uncle Sal. Gritty, controversial, violent, disturbing and graphic, “Mutilation Mile” is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sequel follows Jim Bickerman, a poacher who discovers that his local lake is inhabited by man-eating crocodiles. REVIEW: Were it not for my gig here at our happy home that is HorrorNews and the immortality it affords my inconsequential opinions, the drunken late-night Facebook conversation I’d have with my buddy Timmy concerning “Lake Placid: The Final Chapter” would most likely …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A depraved priest and his gimp assistant abduct young women before torturing and killing them.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. REVIEW John Wick, the latest action film from Keanu (The Matrix) Reeves, is a bizarre mix of Pulp Fiction, Deathwish, Lethal Weapon and Scarface. But not. The film is very similar to a very many action and gangster film that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the process of researching a mysterious alien epidemic that’s changing the nature of human behavior, a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist (Nicole Kidman) learns that her son (Jackson Bond) might be the planet’s only hope for survival. Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam and Veronica Cartwright round out the supporting cast in director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s supernatural thriller that’s tinged …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A terrifying story of six members of an evangelical Christian group who have been abducted in rural Kansas REVIEW: Right about the first minute mark of the opening credit sequence, set to a catchy metal riff within the grubby confines of a small town Kansas strip club, I knew I was watching the latest trend in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The true story behind the legend of the Fouke Monster. REVIEW: This week my editor sent me a few low budget films to review, one bad, one good, and one strange. “Boggy Creek Monster”, which I watched without doing any homework before hand and came at it with an open mind. Naturally from the title I …

Rate This Movie SYNPOPSIS: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. REVIEW: OK, my children. Here is a review that the Black Saint endured hell & high water to get to you. Hell is ok…high water, not so good. But it matters not because I like to give you guys the …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Rusty Funkouser has a lot to deal with in his teenage life: high school, a controlling mother and a step father who turns out to be a vampire. When his newly remarried mother travels on a business trip, Rusty is left at home with his new step father. Suspicious of the man, Rusty discovers his step dad’s …