SYNOPSIS: A beautiful French female gets her face ruined by some crazy broad who throws acid on her face. Her determined brother is a doctor and promises to restore her beauty and make her look like an attractive girl again. He begins to kidnap young and beautiful females and bringing them to his clinic with the help of his nurse …
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Film Review: Mutation Annihilation (2007)
SYNOPSIS: The two sequels to Timo Rose’s Mutation, condensed into one feature length horror/sci-fi epic with added digital effects. REVIEW: Stop me if you’ve heard this one: So, Timo Rose is a German movie maker – a writer, director, actor, producer, special effects guy, cinematographer…if it needs to be done to get a movie made, Timo Rose does it. One …
Read More »Film Review: F/X 2 (1991)
SYNOPSIS: A former movie special effects man turned prototype toy creator finds himself caught up in the very life he thought he life behind.
Read More »Extreme Cinema: Film’s Darkest Moments for Strong Stomachs and Minds
Extreme Cinema is not entirely a new classification (hence the fairly in-adequate wiki listing) but one that was attached to a genre of horror that challenges the limits of what we have been exposed to over the years. With television, cable, and pay TV taking things “much further” in recent years, that gray line has become awful thin. Certainly fans …
Read More »Film Review: The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
SYNOPSIS: The Embryo Hunts In Secret, released in July 1966, is the first film made by Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu independently of any movie studio REVIEW: There are folks who can make nasty, sleazy movies, and there are folks who can make artsy movies, but rare is it that you can find a director who can make a movie that …
Read More »Film Review: Miss Zombie (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A wealthy married couple decide to ignore strict laws banning zombies in private homes and takes in a female zombie to groom as their housekeeper. When the zombie arrives, they also receive a note warning against feeding her any type of meat and also a loaded handgun. Meanwhile, the scarred zombie named Sara (Ayaka Komatsu) endures horrors, while longing …
Read More »Film Review: Ink (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As the light fades and the city goes to sleep, two forces emerge. They are invisible to us except for the power they exert over us in our sleep. These two groups battle for our souls through our dreams. One force supports our hopes and gives us strength through good dreams. The other force leads us …
Read More »Film Review: Exte: Hair Extensions (2006)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a mortician discovers that a girl’s mutilated corpse grows prodigious amounts of hair, he sells the locks to a beauty salon for use as hair extensions. But the dead girl’s spirit has cursed the hair, which begin to attack the women who wear it. How many must die before the hirsute rampage relents? Genuinely horrific, …
Read More »Film Review: In My Skin (Dans ma peau) (2002)
SYNOPSIS: A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident. REVIEW: It is rare that I watch a movie that grabs me so strongly, or hits me so hard, or draws me in so far that I want to watch it all over again immediately after the credits have rolled. Very rare, in fact; I can …
Read More »Film Review: Men Behind the Sun 4 (Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre) (1995) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all. REVIEW: In 1980, while working for Shaw Brothers Studio, Chinese film director Tun Fei Mou decided he was done with kung-fu movies and considered doing a children’s movie. Around …
Read More »Film Review: Fight Club (1999)
SYNOPSIS: “A young urban professional who works for a major car manufacturer can’t sleep. Although he doesn’t have any of the associated afflictions, he stumbles across support groups as a means to let out whatever emotions he is feeling, which in turn is allowing him to sleep. But the use of these support groups is ruined when he meets a …
Read More »Film Review: Flaenset (2000)
SYNOPSIS: A husband has his life ruined when he find his wife having sex with another man. He becomes a psycho-sadistic serial killer who kills, rapes and sometimes even eats parts of his victims. Blood on blood. You should not cheat on your husband when he is raving jealous, he will make you suffer beyond belief… REVIEW: Coming to us …
Read More »Film Review: Mutation 3: Century of the Dead (2002)
SYNOPSIS: Second sequel to Timo Rose’s excellent 1999 German splatter flick, Mutation. This picks up where Part 2 (Generation Dead) left off REVIEW: I’m going to start by saying that it is very telling that in 2007, Mutation 3: Century of the Dead (aka M III), with its 100 minute runtime, and Mutation 2: Generation Dead, weighing in at 85 …
Read More »Film Review: Meat Market 3 (2006)
SYNOPSIS: A young couple attempts to make their way to a rescue station during a worldwide crisis in which the dead return to life seeking living victims for sustenance. When they arrive, the shelter is being overrun by the undead and they seek refuge in a nearby abandoned house, and can only watch in horror as destruction and carnage ensue …
Read More »Film Review: La Raiz del Mal (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Men are brutally murdered, while the women are kidnapped and taken to the depths of the forest where they take part in a bloody ritual REVIEW: One of the best parts of reviewing these crazy, nasty, gory horror movies is being able to “discover” a film or filmmaker I’ve not been familiar with previously. There is so much good …
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