Film Reviews

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets REVIEW: David Bruckner is a director who has been gaining momentum over the past decade. Starting with “The Signal”, he has gone on to direct segments in both “V/H/S” and “Southbound” in addition to getting much praise for “The Ritual”. While we anticipate his directorial …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother. REVIEW: “Separation” is the story of Maggie and Jeff Vahn’s failing marriage. Without any context, we are first shown how happy they are supposed to be, but the first live scene with them together in the film devolves into a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Taiwan’s parliament turns deadly when a virus transforms politicians into ravenous zombie mutants. REVIEW: Taiwanese director Wang I-Fan’s long format debut Get the Hell Out offers intensely energetic zombie action, filled with blood, guts and a whole lot of action. Ying-Ying (Megan Lai) is a proud member of the Taiwanese parliament that takes her job very …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren’t as dead and gone as he once thought. REVIEW: Directed by: BJ Verot (After the Rain) Written by: BJ Verot and Ken Kanssens The movie opens with a memory, a flashback, …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: Hey kids! More short films! Today we have ANADELLIA, based on a story by Dave Paul & Alec Palumbo, written by Alec Palumbo & Brian Andrews, and directed by Brian Andrews. The film opens with a newsprint montage of a mass murder in the suburbs of New Jersey in 1952.  Four people dead, a man convicted …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king’s behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. REVIEW: During the 1760’s, in the province of Gevaudan, France, a series of attacks and killings took place. Often the victims were people …