Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: SUMMER OF 84 stars Graham Verchere (“Psych,” “Once Upon a Time”), Judah Lewis (The Babysitter, Demolition), Caleb Emery (Goosebumps, “Dear White People”), Cory Grüter-Andrew (“Fargo,” “The 100″), Tiera Skovbye (“Riverdale,” “Once Upon a Time”), and Rich Sommer (“GLOW,” “Mad Men”).  The film is directed by the Montreal filmmaking collective RKSS (Turbo Kid) which consists of François Simard and brother & sister Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, from a script by Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith. Summer, 1984: The perfect time to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Randy is a lonely, gentle groundskeeper who dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. After he is humiliated at a local wrestling school and his dreams of ever stepping into the ring are dashed he snaps and goes on a brutal killing spree, leaving a trail of broken and bloody bodies everywhere he goes. REVIEW: Along with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A demoted detective (that is sort of a big loser) tries to solve the murder of a businessman that took place at an underground sex club. Once he starts looking into it he realizes that the murder is very similar to the plot of a novel that he stumbles across. Is it just a coincidence or …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two twin barbarians seek revenge from the warlord who massacred their tribe and captured them when they were small children. REVIEW: In Barbarians we have another film starring Peter and David Paul, the bodybuilding identical twins that were making movies for a brief period of time before fading into obscurity. In this particular flick, the duo …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS:  Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. An overlooked associate struggles to complete a corporate presentation as a horrific secret gnaws at her conscience.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl befriends a dangerous escaped mental patient after the death of her parents. REVIEW: Beloved Beast is a 2018 drama/horror film directed and written by Jonathan Holbrook.  On cover alone…..well you have to love a film that bears a killer dressed in a rabbit suit. That always seems to promise good times ahead. While …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An anthology compiled from short horror films involving the internet. REVIEW: Opening your film with a clip of a beauty vlogger smashing her head into her computer over and over until her head cracks open is a definite attention-getter. Seeing such fare can warm and tickle the hearts of YouTube fans who have ever had their …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A fifteen-year-old runaway gets stuck in Los Angeles and skirts rape, racial violence, and drug-related crime on her way to San Diego. REVIEW: Director: Jena Serbu Writer: Jena Serbu Starring: Joey King, Luke Pasqualino, Nicole LaLiberte Smartass (2016) is Writer/Director Jena (Frat Star 2017, co-director) Serbu’s first solo directorial debut. Purportedly the true story of a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has written a comic book called “Space Avenger,” which they believe is about them. They go to New York to try to kill the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a party bus on its way to Burning Man filled with a bunch of sexy young adults breaks down in the desert and in the middle of a group of Satanic worshipers, all hell breaks loose. REVIEW: It’s never a good start when the film you’re watching gives itself the wrong title. Promoted as Party …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter’s mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After drinking water from a mountain spring, a bank security guard gains telekinetic superpowers, which he must use to save his estranged daughter from an evil construction company, as a superhero. REVIEW: At this point, it’s safe to say that we’re all getting a little tired of superheroes. Even the nerds of the hardest core have …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: To foil his plan for world domination, wrestling superheroes El Santo and Blue Demon battle the mad Dr. Halder and his army of reanimated monsters. REVIEW: Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos, a.k.a. Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters, is the story of two luchador wrestlers who fight evil when they’re not performing in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Muscle-bound Ator and his mute East Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the earth to save his aged mentor from the evil, mustachioed Zor. REVIEW: If one thing that you can count on is that whenever a movie becomes popular, it’s that about a bazillion cheap rip-offs of it being made. It’s like death and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths. REVIEW: While technicalities and specific story details will vary from one film to the next, almost all entries in the rape/revenge sub-genre feature a handful of the same tropes and follow a very similar structure. An innocent woman, through no fault of her own, finds herself …