Film Reviews

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, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman sees an egg every time she closes her eyes. One day she sees the egg start to crack and a creature hatch. She struggles to come to terms with her conditions and tries to defeat the creature. REVIEW: EGG. is a 2005 horror-fantasy film by the film director/visual artist Yukihiko Tsusumi. It is a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Metropolitan Police Department ‘0’section, known as an organization in the police department that investigates a closed case. Well-trained detective in the ’0’ section, Ray, is looking for her memory that was lost during the training, while also investigating a human traffic which young woman being a victim. One day, classified killer virus was seized by …

Rate This Movie REVIEW:  Industrial Animals is a very small film in almost every measurable metric. Weighing in at roughly 61 minutes, this low budget, found footage film from the UK features a cast of just three people who also cover many of the behind the scenes credits as well. In fact, the entire story takes place over a three-day …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: ”THE DAY OF THE PURPLE SUN”: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? REVIEW: There is a very specific style to the films of Carsten Frank and Margarethe von Stern, but it is one that would be very difficult to put …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother. REVIEW: With a title like Pyewacket, I couldn’t help but be intrigued. Thanks to the glorious internet, I discovered that this was the name of a familiar spirit detected by the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hoping to fix their dysfunctional marriage, a couple travels to an isolated mountain cabin to work out their problems – but the one problem they didn’t anticipate is the maniac trying to kill them. (IMDB) REVIEW: Director: Aitor Uribarri Writer: Kamal Moo Starring: Tommy Day Carey, Wendie Weldon, Ken Foree, Tony D. Czech The Midnight Man …