SYNOPSIS: The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens. REVIEW: Trying to track down much about 1997’s Hysteria was “mostly” a dead end. This asylum-themed film is most noted for the role of Myrna Malloy played actress Amanda Plummer. Her lines are delivered poetically …
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Film Review: Slave (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A dangerous and masochistic psychopath known as the White Arab. While Georgie fights for her life and her sanity, David must wade through a quagmire of corrupt officials, drug dealers and crazed locals in an attempt to discover her location and rescue her before it is too late. REVIEW: Director – Darryn Welch Starring – Sam …
Read More »Film Review: Inner Depravity 2 (short film) (2005)
SYNOPSIS: More tattooed mystery torture per way of creator Remy Couture. This piece is a sister piece to the first simply titled Inner Depravity REVIEW: When the first image you see happens to be a dismembered crotch, you can be certain that what follows next is not going to be pretty. Though any astute viewer would call this gore prop …
Read More »Film Review: The Traveler (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On the Christmas Eve in a small town, a stranger enters in the precinct and tells the Desk Sergeant Gulloy that he had murdered six people. Detective Alexander Black arrests the man in a cell and Deputy Jerry Pine, Deputy Jane Hollow, Deputy Toby Sherwood and Deputy Jack Hawkins are not able to identify him since …
Read More »Film Review: The Exterminator (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A man’s best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him. REVIEW: It’s great to see some of the lost gems arriving on DVD, better yet on Blu-ray. Synapse Films …
Read More »Film Review: The Beast (La bête) (1975)
SYNOPSIS: The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious ‘beast’ is stalking the vicinity. REVIEW: The Beast (La …
Read More »Film Review: Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1982)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “The movie tells the story of rock singer ‘Pink’ who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album The Wall by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink’s youth where he is …
Read More »Film Review: Puzzled (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Emily, an elderly widowed woman, runs out of puzzles to complete she receives a strange package on her front porch. Little does she know it comes with a deadly surprise within. Some puzzles are never meant to be finished. REVIEW: Directed by: Stephen Corron Written by: Stephen Corron Starring: Madge Levinson, Athena Prychodko Growing old …
Read More »Film Review: The Innocents (1961)
SYNOPSIS: “Victorian England. Since the death of their parents, adolescents Miles and Flora have been under the guardianship of their wealthy selfish uncle, who admits he has no place emotionally for them in his life. While he lives in London leading his bachelor lifestyle, the children stay at his country estate, the children under the direction of a governess, Miss …
Read More »Film Review: Mark of The Devil (1970)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Austria – 1770. A time of superstition and religious persecution. Count Cumberland and his evil henchmen torture and kill innocent citizens accusing them of witchcraft. This original uncut version has lost none of its shocking impact. On the outset we are introduced to a cruel and public display of a witch being burned alive. Followed by an …
Read More »Film Review: House on the Hill (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, HOUSE ON THE HILL is a true crime melodrama with strong horror elements, chronicling the outrageous 1980s murder spree of serial killer Leonard Lake, who would target, kidnap, rob and kill people — and even whole families. Sonia, the only survivor of Lake’s killing spree, teams up with a private investigator to help him …
Read More »Film Review: Zombie Rampage (1989)
SYNOPSIS: Two rival gangs battle, and when one tries to revive fallen members using a book of the dead, uncontrollable zombies arise to lay waste to their city.
Read More »Film Review: Garden Of Love (The Haunting Of Rebecca Verlaine) (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Several years after a musician and his friends are killed, his daughter is haunted by her dad, whos spirit is on killing spree. REVIEW: Director – Olaf Ittenbach Screenplay – Olaf Ittenbach and Thomas Reitmair What do you get when you have a special effects guy write and direct a horror movie? Hopefully a bloody good …
Read More »Film Review: Blood Ranch (2005)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When their car breaks down on a desolate two-lane blacktop, four university students, an Iraq War vet and a spooked young woman seek help at a ranch that houses a bizarre cult of deviants. Talk about hospitality: New arrivals are treated to a steady diet of mutilation, dismemberment and torture. The grim truth is that no …
Read More »Film Review: Cry of the Owl (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend goes missing, leaving the new arrival as a suspect. REVIEW: Color me pleasantly surprised!!! I finished watching a film that I had no interest in …
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