Film Reviews

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 …

SYNOPSIS: Haunted by the death of his father and other psychological traumas, Daniel (Roberto Scorza) returns to the home where he was raised. Faced with intense emotional scars, as well as physical — which are realized by the years of self-harm depicted by the cuttings adorning his body — he enters the bathroom to begin a journey of self-exploration, self-mutilation …

SYNOPSIS: The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor’s latest creation, Nuclear Man. REVIEW: Today’s journey into bad movie land is the much-maligned Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, though if the director had his way, it would have had the subtitle The Quest for a Budget by the time they wrapped. The film centers on …

SYNOPSIS: In 2010, the people of Seoul, South Korea fight a virus that threatens to infect the planet. REVIEW: By and large, the American movie-going public is pretty much over zombies. The undead apocalypse trend was a mighty force in the mid-2000s consumerist culture, being relevant what with all our wars and recessions and such. For a while there, it …

SYNOPSIS: After a woman tells her husband that she wants a divorce she starts acting stranger and stranger as some pretty bizarre things begin to happen all around them.  REVIEW: I know this guy that fancies himself as some sort of intellectual (even though he isn’t as nearly smart as he thinks he is) that only watches “intelligent” movies that the …

SYNOPSIS: The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. REVIEW: Well it’s that time of year for about a million holiday movies to be shown ad nauseum. For some of us, the nonstop bombardment of Christmas themed shows and movies tend to get tiresome to the point that you start wanting to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two screenwriting couples head to a remote cabin in the woods, hoping that the change of scenery will get the creative juices flowing. Amid the solitude, the dynamics of their relationships are revealed as they strive to write their masterworks. Complicating matters though, is the lurking presence of a strange man who wears a bag over …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals. REVIEW:  Begotten is hard to consume on many levels. Though in that consumption is also a smattering of brilliance. The film uses a technique that …

SYNOPSIS: “Necromaniac” is the audacious second installment of the Harry Russo Story. Continuing where “Schizophreniac” left off, Harry takes you on a rusty rollercoaster ride through dank sewers of an insane man’s hell. Expect everything and be ready for anything. Harry Russo is back, and he and his pal Rubberneck will mutilate, screw, chop, snort and defecate on anything that …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: What starts out as a Christmas Eve trip to the mall ends up as an exercise in terror for suburban mom Della Myers (Kim Basinger) when she finds herself stranded in a forest and pursued by a quartet of thugs — all because she’s left an angry note on their car. The baddies (including Lukas Haas) …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “When Andrew Billings (Simon Fogarty) goes to see a psychologist to explain how an evil creature that lives in his closet is responsible for the deaths of his three children he is met with disbelief. But as the story progresses, both Dr. Harper (Michael Parle) and the audience will start to consider the possibility that this …

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends stumble onto the killing grounds of a cannibalistic loner who then mercilessly stalks down the party, one-by-one. When only a small group remains, they decide to take a stand against the murderer and fight for their lives. REVIEW: German director/gorehound Andreas Schnaas is at it again, this time paying homage to a legend in the …

SYNOPSIS: “After teenagers Steve Andrews and his girlfriend Jane Martin see a meteorite crash nearby, they set off to investigate. They come across an old man who seems to have some type of gelatinous matters stuck to his hand. They take him to Doctor Hallen who isn’t sure what the substance is but Steve becomes convinced it’s a monster of …

SYNOPSIS: “The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energise with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolf Man) arrives from London in …

SYNOPSIS: A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when some strange spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage. REVIEW: If memory serves me correctly, the 1970s brought us many nature runs amok movies. Jaws, Piranha, Gator, and Grizzly are all examples of movies that were trying to show us that the nature …