Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A demonic card-dealer allows three dead men to play a hand of blackjack for possession of their souls. REVIEW:

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Haunted by her mysterious past, the lone survivor of a family massacre revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruction, awakening the evil that resides there. REVIEW: The biggest problem with “Darkness Rising” is nothing. Before you respond with the appropriate sound of one hand clapping, allow me to explain why “Nothing” by Edie …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman-hating killer stalks one of his victims that got away after she has been admitted to a hospital, taking out anyone unfortunate to get in his way. REVIEW: I remember seeing the trailer for Visiting Hours back in 1982 when I was eight-years-old and I thought that it looked quite awesome. I had just gotten …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Back in late 1963, a Belgian nun known only as Soeur Sourire, or Sister Smile, topped America’s pop music charts with the relentlessly cheerful tune “Dominique,” from an album that sold 1.5 million copies. From the little that is known of the ill-fated nun’s life, Roger Deutsch has made the boldly speculative yet persuasive Italian-language film …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “It Came From Another World! chronicles the continuing adventures of everyone’s favorite a-rockin’ scientist Professor Jackson. First introduced in The Monster of Phantom Lake (2006), Professor Jackson (Josh Craig) finds himself tasked yet again with saving the planet from certain doom. When Professor Jackson’s colleague and best friend Doctor Frasier (Mike Mason) doesn’t return from a scientific …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A babysitter is stalked by a frightening ominous presence in The Nursery, creaking its doors open this June from Uncork’d Entertainment.   From filmmakers Christopher A. Micklos and Jay Sapiro comes the story of a young woman whose run-of-the-mill Saturday night quickly turns into a confrontation with unspeakable horror!   When Ranae, a college student babysits for a family with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he’ll not see Bigfoot again. REVIEW: If you’ve ever watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and thought, ‘This tale of a man being driven paranoid by his own potentially overactive imagination is all well and good, but what if it had a more …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Muscle-bound twins try to smash a jewel smuggling ring. REVIEW: Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, there were identical twin brothers named Peter and David Paul who got nicknamed the Barbarian Twins. I’m sure that moniker was given mainly due to their size since they were both professional bodybuilders. Someone in Hollywood got the idea …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Victor (James Porter) is a socially inept man who lives alone in the family house watching horror movies all the time. His only companion is a rat named Frankenstein who he has domesticated. After the death of his mother, Victor’s mental capacities appear to have degenerated to the degree that he is unable to interact with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the future, man’s quest for answers will take him to the edge of the universe. But the knowledge they seek, should never be known. REVIEW: Venturing into “Prometheus Trap” completely blind and with zero point of reference, I found myself a little more at ease than if I’d had the opportunity this past summer to experience Ridley Scott’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a fresh-faced nanny arrives at her new job on a creaky farm in the English countryside, she is instantly caught up in the turbulent relationship of her employers. James is struggling to provide for his family, and Rachel, an inexperienced mother, is unable to cope with the demands of her newborn baby. Unaware of his …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three friends, Simon, Nina and Dodo fly on holidayы to Spain. On their way happens a delay in Frankfurt, where they eventually have been robbed. Depressed, they stop to drink at the bar, where get to masochists and murderers. REVIEW: This film has been on radar to view and review for awhile. Mainly because I knew Olaf …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Caesar, an effete tough guy and his slovenly half brother, Otto, have signed up as summer camp counselors. But when the mysterious Carrie shows up, the other counselors start disappearing one by one REVIEW: “Caesar and Otto’s Summer Camp Massacre” is a sequel of sorts to a five minute short by writer/director/star Dave Campfield, simply titled …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three teenagers go visit a friend at his old farmhouse for the weekend. What they didn’t expect was to be stuck in the middle of a centenary war between good and evil. REVIEW: For all the hand-wringing over sex and violence in movies and modern culture, today’s artists have nothing on the mythmakers and storytellers of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After witnessing the murders of a convenience store clerk and his son, fire fighter Jeremy Coleman narrowly escapes with his life. Slated to testify against mafia assailant David Hagan, the police place Coleman in a witness protection program. Seems the mafia has other plans, threatening to take out each and every person Coleman has ever cared …