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 …
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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 …
Read More »Film Review: Altre (Others Like You) (short film) (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Her desire can give birth to a child. Her friend’s envy can only give birth to monster Ester is a woman who has a strong longing to get pregnant. Following a surgical procedure, though, Greta – her family doctor and long- standing friend – diagnoses her with total sterility. When greta – who had the same …
Read More »Film Review: Session (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychological suspense drama-thriller where a psychologist becomes obsessed with one of his patients. The lines between dreams and reality blend. REVIEW: So I had to start this film twice. The first 15 minutes or so just didn’t really grab my attention the first time through. But once I got past that, this turns into a …
Read More »Film Review: Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A shadowy killer in black brutally murders fashion models. REVIEW: “Perhaps female beauty makes him lose his head and kill.” In 1964, horror maestro Mario Bava, for better or worse, practically invented the cinematic giallo (a horror subgenre which harkened to Italian paperbacks released in the 1930’s which translated mystery novels and were characteristically yellow) and …
Read More »Film Review: Death on Demand (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Wealthy college student Richard Sachs arranges a web broadcast contest originating from a local haunted house. He entices three young couples to spend Halloween night in the abandoned dwelling by offering $5,000 in prize money.
Read More »Film Review: Livid (Livide) (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “It’s young Lucy’s first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide …
Read More »Film Review: Fertile Ground (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young couple leave the city for the rural comfort of the husbands ancestral home in the country. Once there, his wife is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. REVIEW: There are so many stories that are just retold in movieland these days. I suppose it’s always been …
Read More »Film Review: Road Kill (aka Road Train) (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Australia’s barren Outback provides the setting for this hair-raising thriller about a massive, driverless truck that runs four teenagers off the road and then becomes their personal hell-wagon after they try to drive it to safety. Finding themselves hostages on a surreal journey, the teens discover that they’re not alone aboard the giant big-rig as the …
Read More »Film Review: Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
SYNOPSIS: “Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognise him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to Colchis to find the Golden Fleece. Jason follows his advice and assembles a sailing crew of the finest men in Greece, including Hercules. …
Read More »Film Review: Suicide Girls Must Die (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually go on a Suicide Girl’s photo shoot well today is your lucky day! Ends up the photo shoot is actually going to be for a calendar which means even more girls, I mean who cares if its up in no man’s land in Maine it’s …
Read More »Film Review: Chaw (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A black comedy about the events that are set into motion in a town after a man-eating boar goes on a rampage. REVIEW: CHAW (2009) Director: Jeong – won shin Producer: Wonsuk Chin Cinematographer: Barry Stone Cast: Tae – woong Eom * Yoon Jae – Moon * Yu – mi Jeong * Josiah D. Lee Korea …
Read More »Film Review: Circle (2010)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A group of graduate students who are doing a thesis on a crazed serial killer head to his former home with the purpose of learning all that they can about him (and hoping that they can find something there that no one else has that will shed some light on why he feels the need to kill). …
Read More »Film Review: Black Christmas (1974) – Review #2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lunatic seen only in synecdoche takes refuge in a sorority house’s attic during the Christmas season and begins making horrific and truly obscene phone calls to the women on the first floor. A young member of the sorority disappears and a desperate search for her return ensues. As the police and house members look for …
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