Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When loneliness consumes your life, things may get weird for you, and dangerous for others. You’ll discover just what that means in Jill Gevargizian’s “The Stylist”. REVIEW: Claire (Najarra Townsend; 2013’s “Contracted”) is a very reserved hair stylist in a hip-looking salon. She doesn’t seem to have any friends, she doesn’t seem to socialize very much, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji’s little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL! REVIEW: Director/actor Kurando Mitsutake brings us an old-fashioned revenge exploitation with gory action and gratuitous nudity. Karate Kill might not win any awards for …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eli Roth and a professional group of scientists, researchers and activists sail around the globe to unveil the truth behind the death of millions of sharks. REVIEW: “The fight has just begun” Eli Roth – FIN Director, producer, writer, and actor Eli Roth’s Fin is a powerful representation of how so many sharks are killed each …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 20 years after he disappeared “Bloody” Bobby returns to stalk and kill a bunch of annoying people at a Halloween party. REVIEW: I’m just going to cut to the chase here, Legend of Fall Creek is a terrible movie. The script is bad, the acting is bad, the death scenes are bad, and to be honest …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Directed by Mónica Mateo (13:30) (Sci-Fi/Horror) (Spain) After Ana and David say goodbye like any other day, something extraordinary happens that alters reality. REVIEW: Directed and written by Monica Mateo, You Will Never Be Back/ No Podras Volver Nunca stars Ximena Vera, Chumo Mata, Laura De Pedro, Dario Paso, and Juana Andueza. We meet a woman …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An underfunded university professor is on track to build the world’s first bio-computer using genetically engineered bacteria when something goes terribly wrong. Now that something is top of the food chain. REVIEW: Zombie movies come and go, but rarely do they become ground-breaking cult or hit films. Independent zombie features get produced by the shovel each …

SYNOPSIS: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals. REVIEW: Hey folks…another guilty pleasure review for me…not horror, but almost “culty” in its own respect. Arriving right at the start of the 1980’s rush of teen angst films arrived this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Alex accompanies her boyfriend and a group of other people on a trip to the Slasher Sleepout even though she isn’t really into horror films and is just trying to be a good girlfriend. Unfortunately, once they get there they discover that the scares are for real and they may not make it out alive. REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A weekend getaway turns into a hellish encounter for three college buddies in this unnerving shocker based on a true story. Setting off to chase skirts and get soused, Phil (Rider Strong), Ed (Brian Presley) and Henry (Jake Muxworthy) head south of the border, where Phil soon finds himself held captive by Satanic drug smugglers looking …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young dutch girl in Paris. REVIEW: Adoration is another of the short films that comes in the Cult Epics collection, “Cinema of Death” (also included in the set are films by Nico B. (Pig and Hollywood Babylon), Brian M. Viveros …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Active Senior Tour group outing turns deadly when the crazed, bloodthirsty cowboys from a local rodeo attraction start abducting and killing people. REVIEW: Lasso hits it out of the park! Directed by Evan Cecil and coming to us from Epic Pictures, I have to start off the review with saying that I really loved this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the annual event known as “The Purge” where all criminal acts become legal for 12 hours, including murder, five innocent citizens of Los Angeles struggle to survive the night. Led by Leo Barnes, a man set out to get revenge, the group includes a troubled couple who are fleeing a group of masked assailants and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bullet Collector follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin. REVIEW: The Russian film, Bullet Collector (aka Sobiratel Pul), is a dark and bleak tale, a kind of anti-coming …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a prison bus is involved in an accident on a country road several dangerous inmates escape. Dr. Madsen, who was in the other vehicle that was in the crash, is taken hostage by the prisoners. As the group makes its way deep into the woods to avoid the police they stumble upon an old house …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bizarre rituals, animals being killed, and people being killed and eaten by each other and animals REVIEW: Savage Man Savage Beast, aka Zumbalah, aka Ultime Grida Dalla Savana, aka Savage Temptation, aka The Great Hunting, aka (simply and appropriately) Deathshow, is one of the more influential early “shockumentary” films. Seen as a nature documentary in which …