Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: ‘Nekro’ is a 1998 short film that has little in the way of plot and virtually no dialogue. What it does have is probably the most powerful 18 minutes of horror cinema you’re ever likely to see…and some! REVIEW: Another short film today, folks, and I have no idea what to say about this one. We …
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Film Review: The Transfiguration (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo’s fantasy into reality. REVIEW: The definition of Transfiguration is, a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state, and in my opinion that’s the basis …
Read More »Film Review: Svengali (1931)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Svengali is a singing teacher, pianist and general music impresario living in Paris. He has special talents as he is able to mesmerize others through his music and through his strong hypnotic powers. He uses these talents specifically to seduce his female students for his own evil monetary gains. He discards them just as easily when they …
Read More »Film Review: Divided Into Zero (short film) (1999)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A non-linear surrealistic horror film documenting a man’s broken descent into isolation, body mutilation, paedophilia and murder. REVIEW: “Divided by Zero”, a short film by Mitch Davis, takes an abstract approach with several segments that involve a series of emotional contexts. While they all seem unrelated, (at first) the impact varies with each as we journey …
Read More »Film Review: The Hunger Games (2012)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A young girl volunteers to take her sister’s place in a fight to the death in a dystopian future. REVIEW: For a few years now, fans of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (the first book in the three book series, published in 2008), have eagerly anticipated the film adaptation. Well, the time has come and with Gary …
Read More »Film Review: Everto (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Skylar is witness to the aftermath of a murder, but the killer doesn’t come after her. Instead, he torments her by testing her will to survive. REVIEW: Though any low budget indie film maker/writer should be commended for following their dreams and making a film, I can’t help but think that the writers of EVERTO should …
Read More »Film Review: The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Fu Manchu’s 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu’s age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland …
Read More »Film Review: Kyoko vs. Yuki (2000)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kyoko, a 17-year-old assassin, finishes her training and is sent after her first target. Meanwhile Yuki, a teenage prostitute, has lured an unsuspecting customer to a hotel room, where she knocks him around, ties him up and steals his briefcase. Before leaving, her girlfriend Maki arrives, and they engage in a little bump and grind to …
Read More »Film Review: WatchUsDie.com (2001)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: WatchUsDie.com Director – Ryan Woo Screenplay – Keith Strandberg Murder has just logged in. If you saw what you thought was a murder on the Internet, what would you do? Set in a voyeur site called WatchUsDorm.com, viewers are given the chance to watch the everyday lives of eight beautiful women living in the house. These …
Read More »Film Review: Psycho Cop (1989)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends partying at a rental house in the middle of nowhere is terrorized by a homicidal, Satan-worshipping police officer. REVIEW: When I was in high school I came home one Friday night after hanging out with some friends to find my parents watching Psycho Cop on our VCR. Neither one of them really …
Read More »Film Review: Bad Moon (1996)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While on assignment in the jungles of Nepal, photojournalist Ted Harrison (Michael Pare) and his girlfriend are savagely attacked by a hideous beast which tears the woman to shreds and leaves Ted badly mauled. He later returns to the States to live near his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway), nephew Brett (Mason Gamble) and their German shepherd …
Read More »Film Review: Exitus Interruptus II House of Pain (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 2 years have passed since the terrible events in the exitus house. Sophie, the sister of the dead monique, suffers from the fact that the body of her sister has never been found. Together with her friend Lena, she makes her own research and discovers a terrible secret in the former murder house! REVIEW: Exitus Interruptus …
Read More »Film Review: The Last Heist (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A safety deposit vault heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer. Trapping the well-organized team of bank robbers in the building, the killer is now picking them off one by one. REVIEW: Here’s a little known fact about your old pal, The Black Saint, I’m a …
Read More »Film Review: Piggy (2012) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother’s old friends. As their friendship grows, Joe finds himself in an increasingly dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. When Joe’s life collapses around him, he starts to question …
Read More »Film Review: Shutter Island (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose …
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