Film Reviews

SYNOPSIS: “Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the …

The Bad Movie Bible: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies That Are so Bad They’re Good Bad Movies have always fascinated me. Of course most viewers would choose a quality release over some mess of a concoction that someone decided to call a movie, however as the years have passed, and movies are cranked out, a few really bad ones …

SYNOPSIS: When humans are cast into an epic war with reptilian monsters, an anti-monster agent falls in love with the enemy. REVIEW: Set in Hong Kong near the turn of the last century, Wicked City (1987) is a Chinese adaptation of the first of a series of Japanese speculative horror fiction novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi. Directed by Peter Mak, …

SYNOPSIS: A beautiful woman drives to the country, strips and photographs herself in various compromising positions. Naturally, Such lewed behaviour cannot go unpunished by the Fantom Kiler. Later on Ursula arrives at a run down garage where she hopes to get her car serviced. Unfortunately its not only her car that gets serviced as Natasha is forced to strip and …

SYNOPSIS: A surreal series of loosely connected and often absurd comedic vignettes touching on themes including alien life, relationships, and the dangers of interpretive dance. REVIEW: 2005’s Funky Forest: The First Contact is less an anthology than an arthouse collection of long-form shower thoughts, anecdotes, and tiny fever dreams. Directors Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, and Shunichiro Miki have assembled a …

SYNOPSIS: The first part in the live action La Blue Girl trilogy. REVIEW: One of the great things about writing horror film reviews and, as a result, watching lots of horror films is that moment when you stare at the screen as the end credit roll and mutter to yourself, “What the hell did I just watch?”.  This reaction can …

SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl (who just happens to be a member of a dangerous cult) is taken to Hell by a mysterious older woman and witnesses what happens to the many poor souls that end up there for all eternity.  REVIEW: Jigoku (which translated means “Hell”) is a weird little fever dream of a movie and while it may not be …

SYNOPSIS: After a night of partying, four friends are kidnapped by a mysterious man. The friends wake up in a basement, and realize they are part of something horrifying. A human breeding farm. They are to be milked, bred, and much, much worse. REVIEW:  With so many films being released each year, it’s becoming more and more difficult to decide …

SYNOPSIS: High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo. REVIEW: Directed by Teruo Ishii Starring Teruo Yoshida, Asao Koike, Masumi Tachibana, Yumiko Katayama, Mieko Fujimoto My first thought watching …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a WWII-era transport ship, reactivated and deployed in the Persian Gulf for black-op interrogations, falls radio silent, an elite Marine task force, along with an NCIS investigator and two scientists, are sent to apprehend the terrorists… Only to find a more devious enemy REVIEW: Written by: Ethan Wiley & Roel Reine Directed by: Roel Reine …

SYNOPSIS: A dead family of raccoons, killed mercilessly for their fur, takes revenge on anyone who wears the coat made of its pelts. REVIEW:  If you’re not familiar with the Masters of Horror series, you need to fix that and get familiar with it ASAP. Debuting in 2005 on Showtime, the all-too short-lived series was the brainchild of Mick Garris …

SYNOPSIS: After being disfigured at the hands of her sister’s ex-boyfriend a young woman’s life starts to fall apart. To make matters worse those around her are being killed off one-by-one by a mysterious woman who uses a pair of scissors to slaughter them. Will she be able to figure out the identity of the woman and stop before she …

SYNOPSIS: After his brother is paralyzed by an opponent after a boxing match a man seeks vengeance only to find himself mixed up in a weird situation involving black magic, dead wizards, and reincarnation (I think). REVIEW: Wow. Where do I even begin? Without a doubt The Boxer’s Omen is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen and to be honest I …

SYNOPSIS: “US army Major John Reisman, based in London, is an inventive man who often thinks outside the box which causes many problems in the structured military. But it is because of this mentality that in March 1944, he is assigned, or as his superiors put it volunteers for a near suicide mission. Prior to the Allied forces invading continental …

SYNOPSIS: Wong plays an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who alienates a gang of drunken men (led by Shing Fui-on). They tail her after her shift, and mount a gang assault. She attempts to enlist the aid of her former brother-in-law (Lam) – an ex-triad now confined to a wheelchair. A lounge owner in HK, he hires her as a …