Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: John is taken on a murder-fueled ride by a mysterious stranger that transforms the weak-willed, disillusioned husband and father into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family. REVIEW: Meeting Evil a thrilling adventure by Chris Fisher whose script (based on Thomas Berger’s novel) has a wonderfully twisted Twilight Zone feel …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up “demon emperor” Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Future Japan has fallen into a state of anarchy and pupils are refusing to go to school. To deal with this the state has instituted the Battle Royale Act. The 9th Grade class from Zenjutsi High School goes on a field trip only to be gassed unconscious in the bus. They come around on an island where …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While volunteering in an experimental drug trial at a creepy testing facility, human guinea pigs Juliet (Jessica Grace Smith) and Andre (Raybon Kan) find clues pointing to a double murder, but their medication’s hallucinogenic side effects hinder their attempts to solve the mystery. A horror spoof that pokes fun at Peter Jackson’s early movies, this New …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: What happens when the apocalypse you want is not the apocalypse you get? REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have something a bit different. This is MY BORING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, written and directed by Kevin Perkins. In the interest of full disclosure, I actually appear in this film as an extra in several sequences. I …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A helpless Taxi driver, a mysterious delivery boy, a 30 years abandoned motel, a touching past, all come together to form a strange tale. One day, a strange passenger Xiao Ma hires a taxi driver named Map King, paying him a huge sum of money to take him to an abandoned old motel. The Chun Lei …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Short Film by Blauw Films follows a man who has just learned about his girlfriend’s pregnancy. The film is about a man making peace with the idea of becoming a father. Unprepared for this change in his life, he falls into a nightmarish experience. REVIEW: More short films kiddies! Today we have…SHORT FILM BY BLAUW FILMS, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The town of Mt. Moriah comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who comes back to haunt the teens, who witnessed her death as children, during a “game” of ‘Ghost in the Graveyard.’ REVIEW: WARNING: This review may contain information that would be considered “spoilers”. Ten years ago, a group of kids decide to play …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When their father is murdered, three brothers descend upon an Oregon mountain river to spread his ashes. After they arrive, one of their children goes missing. One of the brothers was himself abducted 30 years ago when they visited this same river, but he has blocked the incident out of his mind. Only by unlocking the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a viral zombie outbreak is unleashed in east London, a colorful group of c**kneys decide to wage war against the undead. REVIEW: “Aw fokin’ ell yea!” pretty much sums up the movie going experience while watching Cockneys vs. Zombies. Director Matthias Hoene’s first feature length debut was a smash hit at its Canadian premiere last …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A reality tv team of ghost hunters clash with an ancient malevolent spirit that gives the team a run for their money. REVIEW: Hell Girl is a new film that stands on the merits of characters like “Ghosthunters” on a reality show. It has a story within a story that may be hard for some to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she’s thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid. REVIEW: What does a mermaid, a ghost in a mental institution, and a sadistic serial killer have in common? Watch the recently released, low-budget, horror flick Mermaid Down and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “SPIDER DANGER” is about a spider that reach huge dimensions. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have SPIDER DANGER, written, directed, and starring Andrea Ricca. I have reviewed many shorts by this filmmaker and I admit to being a fan. He creates these short films all on his own, doing all the filming and computer …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting. REVIEW: The Name Sogo Ishii may not instantly ring bells when talking about Japanese cinema. His filmography, although quite extensive, extending from the mid 70’s all the way to this decade, is not particularly widely known …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A taxi driver finds himself trapped in a time loop. He picks up a pretty woman in a rural area at night. Later she disappears. The loop starts over, when he switches the meter back to vacant. REVIEW: It’s not often I get to use the word charming when describing a film under review. In this …