Film Reviews

SYNOPSIS: When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein’s ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons. REVIEW:Today’s B-movie romp is 1981’s Frankenstein Island, which centers on a group of guys that were traveling in hot air balloons in hopes of breaking some records. However, …

SYNOPSIS: A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results. REVIEW: I had been dreading this. Ever since I agreed to reviewing movies that are largely considered bad, there was one director whose work I feared having to review. I had a feeling, this sense of impending doom, that it was going to happen. Sure enough, my …

Rate This MovieSutures (2009) is a movie that has some seriously inspired moments with a cast that is above average in the talent department but suffers in the script department. Director Tammi Sutton pulls the proceedings together the best she can but the script, written by the team of Brian Moon, Jacqueline Kelly, and Carlos Lauchu, veers in so many …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vicious anaconda escapes into the remote mountains after being subjected to a new anti-cancer serum, and now Dr. Amanda Haze (Crystal Allen) and others must brave the wilderness to kill the fearsome beast. But no sooner do they cut the snake in half than it regenerates into two bloodthirsty serpents, thanks to the experimental drug. …

Rate This Movie Synopsis: NA Review: What is there to say about the films of the Cole Brothers? Well, there is not much to say since not much is known. And I have to say, I would like to know more. I always like to research the films I review before I watch them and with “M”, I couldn’t find …

SYNOPSIS: Two people with bad marriages get together, trying to enjoy at least one part of their lives. What they find is more devastation and despair. REVIEW: Intimacy is a movie that is notorious for its real, unsimulated sex scenes. It’s starring Mark Rylance, a recent Oscar winner for Bridge of Spies, and Kerry Fox, a person who has given an on-screen …

SYNOPSIS: Wilson, a Thai veteran of the Vietnam War and all around master of combat, leads a group of men on a daring mission into the jungles of Vietnam to topple a dangerous drug lord and his cannibal army.  REVIEW: This is one of those movies that films like Death Proof or Planet Terror or even Hobo With a Shotgun …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Adam Sorg is a mildly successful artist; I mean he has a nice house on the beach and a pretty gal. Adam is upset though because a local art critic has informed him that his work lacks true color. Adam’s found that color however, and wait till you see what he paints with now.. REVIEW: Directed …

SYNOPSIS: Yoroi Samurai Zombie AKA Samurai Zombie is a 2008 Japanese comic horror film directed by Tak Sakaguchi and written by Ryuhei Kitamura, who had previously collaborated on Versus REVIEW: It’s safe to say that the most effective horror movies are the ones that wreak havoc on a happy family. It’s an old cliché that the genre is rotten with …

SYNOPSIS: A punk-rock after hours about femininity, masculinity and the theft of $68,000. REVIEW: There seems to be a trend as of late that I’m really digging coming out of the film industry, this trend of course being a rush of balls-out cinema pieces fueled towards violence, comedy, and chaotic absurdity. With movies such as “Mayhem” and “Brawl in Cell …

SYNOPSIS: In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. REVIEW: Way back in 1982, we met John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone, who us action movie loving kids previously met in Rocky), a medal winning Vietnam veteran, in First …

SYNOPSIS: A U.S. Army interrogator talks with his therapist about actions that took place during a specific interrogation that had questionable results. REVIEW: Written by Graham Green, Richard Loranger Directed By Graham Green Starring: Nichelle Nichols, Andrew W. Walker, Sophia Choi With a name like “The Torturer” one would think that the subject matter of this movie would be rather …

  SYNOPSIS: After a father and his daughter are killed in a fiery car crash, a young girl named Cathy (Randi Allen) is possessed by the vengeful spirit that may or may not be related to her. With those close to Cathy either going crazy or mysteriously dying. As the family attempts to solve this mystery, a mysterious doll that …

SYNOPSIS: A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the enigmatic stranger who mysteriously comes to “visit” him. Possessing uncanny magical prowess and miraculous psychic abilities, the peculiar, but seemingly benevolent, visitor quickly gains a spell-binding hold over the senator …

SYNOPSIS: A trio of escaped convicts hold an African American family hostage in their home and subject them to a number of horrible torments.  REVIEW: Back in the early 2000s I was hanging around with a group of guys known as the Brains on Film that had their own public access show and website. These guys were hardcore into the exploitation …