Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man’s execution. Girot again pleads his innocence insisting that he has been taken over by a spirit that forced him to commit his crimes. Cordier doesn’t believe him and the man suddenly dies. Cordier does however note a rapid change …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home. REVIEW: Every year 1000’s of films litter the genre each hoping to be the one that sticks. We even see familiar themes and subject matters rehashed over and over …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela’s mother tells him that this will …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five friends return home from a marriage in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity. REVIEW: Director – Olivier Abbou Starring – Roc LaFortune, Sean Devine, Nicole Leroux Cripes, it’s not even safe to travel to Canada. What is this world coming to? “Territories” …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: A woman is terrorized by an unknown stalker and must take matters into her own hands when the police refuse to do anything to stop him. REVIEW: Strangely enough I had never even heard of Someone’s Watching Me! until I watched it recently (which is odd because John Carpenter wrote and directed it and I am …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: I’ve been up to my coccyx …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live. REVIEW: As a horror film fan for some 45 years and a reviewer for the last 10 or so, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. REVIEW: Director: Steven K. DeKnight Writer: Stephen K. DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, T. S. Nowlin Starring: John Boyega, Cailee Spaeny, Scott Eastwood, Charlie Day, Burn …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear–but is it real or a product of her delusion? REVIEW: I enjoy movies that leave me thinking about the film afterwards. Maybe it is a character’s emotional arc that resonates with me. Or a moral dilemma that either …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: So-yeon (Park Min Young) suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth. REVIEW: The Cat is a 2011 Korean ghost horror directed by Seung-wook Byeon. It’s a pretty typical movie of it’s kind and as such …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: John Trent (Sam Neil), an insurance investigator, embarks on a case to track down popular missing horror writer Sutter Kane (Jurgen Prochnow). Trent is true sceptic but slowly he has no choice but to believe what is really happening – that himself and all he sees in the world around him are being written by Kane. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A documentary that explores why society loves to watch death and gore in movies. REVIEW: The number one question a hardcore horror fan will be asked in their life (by non-horror fans) has got to be: Why do you watch that garbage? (Running a close second is probably “What is wrong with you?” but that’s a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychologist interviews an inmate on death row and after hearing him describe why he became such a violent killer she must decide if he gets a stay of execution or not. REVIEW: I didn’t really know a whole lot about American Violence before I saw it, but I thought that it sounded like it may …

Rate This Movie  REVIEW:  Some anthology films feature a wraparound story that weaves its way through from beginning to end; others feature a host who appears between segments to wisecrack and introduce the next story; and in some, one story begins where the previous ended, and ends where the next begins, and so on. And then there’s Home Videos, which …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An amusement park reopens after a deadly accident fourteen years prior. But although the park is back in business, that doesn’t mean it’s safe, and when a young boy goes missing, a group of his friends set out to find him. REVIEW: I live in a pretty small town that’s only notable for two things: first, …