Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Another spoof from the mind of Mel Brooks. This time he’s out to poke fun at the Dracula myth. Basically, he took Bram Stoker’s Dracula, gave it a new cast and a new script and made a big joke out of it. The usual, rich English are attacked by Dracula and Doctor Van Helsing is brought in …
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Film Review: The Beacon (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While trying to get their lives back on track after the loss of their four year old son, Bryn and Paul Shaw move to the charming old Beacon Apartments. Bryn begins seeing a ghostly little boy skulking around the building. With the help of an eccentric young professor and a tough old beat cop, Bryn tries …
Read More »Film Review: Evil Brain From Outer Space (1964)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “A monstrous evil brain from outer space leads his minions on a crusade to conquer the universe, and unleashes hideous monsters on Earth that spread deadly diseases. Superhero Starman must rescue Earth from the menace of the evil brain while battling armies of monsters the brain sends against him.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Before I start this week’s …
Read More »Film Review: Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie attack brings chaos to Harvardville Airport. Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield , who fought the sinister Umbrella Corporation during the Raccoon City tragedy 7 years ago, are back. In high-octane Resident Evil style, they’re ready to battle a rogue warrior who is seeking revenge after his family was killed in Raccoon City. The …
Read More »Film Review: FDR: American Badass! (2012)
SYNOPSIS: While chin wagging and carousing in a remote Americana forest on a hunting trip Franklin Roosevelt is attacked and bitten by a werewolf. Surviving the horrific ordeal FDR is afflicted with paralyzing polio. Confined to a wheelchair he over comes the odds getting elected into the oval office defeating all adversaries and non-believers in his relentless path. REVIEW: FDR …
Read More »Film Review: Haute Tension (High Tension) (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Two college friends, Marie and Alexa, encounter loads of trouble (and blood) while on vacation at Alexa’s parents’ country home when a mysterious killer invades their quiet getaway. REVIEW: As the name implies, High Tension (2003) is certainly not a misnomer. It is a terrifyingly suspenseful film and absolutely one of the best to come out in a long …
Read More »Film Review: A Day of Violence (2010)
SYNOPSIS: Mitchell Parker lies dead on a morgue slab. In life, ‘Mitchell’ served the low ranks of Debt Collectors, surrounded by all the filth and scum that the world had to offer. He thought his luck was in, when on a routine collection he stumbles across 100,000 in cash, hidden in the sofa of one of his clients. A dark …
Read More »Film Review: Vile (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Fifty years ago Yale University professor Stanley Milgram held a series of social experiments based on Nazi war criminals’ psychology. They were devised to answer a simple question: how far are people willing to go when instructed by authority? Nick, his girlfriend Tayler and their two best friends are about to find out. Abducted after a camping trip, they …
Read More »Film Review: Lost Highway (1997)
SYNOPSIS: After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. REVIEW: “Lost Highway” seemed to be a perfect title for this allegorical mind screw of a film. I remember first seeing this on …
Read More »Film Review: Fire in the Sky (1993)
SYNOPSIS: This Science fiction film from 1991 is based on the true story of Travis Walton. It is adapted from his novel called “The Walton Experience.” It stars D.B. Sweeney as Walton and Robert Patrick as his future brother in law Mike Rogers. The film depicts the other worldly events that took place in the woods of Snowflake, Arizona in …
Read More »Film Review: The Omega Man (1971)
SYNOPSIS: Charleton Heston stars as an army Doctor, Robert Neville, who has learned to survive a plague that has wiped out mankind. The plague being a result of a war between nations that was waged with biological weapons. Dr. Neville, having given himself an antidote which allows him to ward off the deadly illness, has free reign of Los Angeles …
Read More »Film Review: Evil Things (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On January 9th 2009, 5 college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all 5 students simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence…until now. REVIEW: In the recent wake of Paranormal Actively style films, comes a new entry with the intriguing title of “Evil …
Read More »Film Review: Missing (aka Sil Jong) (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Hyeon-jeong’s sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister’s cellphone, Hyeon-jeong learns that her sister stayed in a countryside vaillage. She goes to the village to find her sister and stops at the local police station for help. Because of the little evidence she has, the police refuse to offer help. Hyeong-jeong then finds a …
Read More »Film Review: The Absence of Light (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a scientist’s ingenious discovery becomes the object of desire for two shadowy organizations hell-bent on destruction, the future of mankind hangs in the balance. Now, it’s up to two burned-out assassins, Puritan (Richard Conant) and Sultan (Eric Thornsberry), to protect the scientist and keep his project from falling into the wrong hands. REVIEW: Directed By: …
Read More »Film Review: Mirrors 2 (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store’s mirror. REVIEW: In recent reviews of the new thriller Mirrors 2, it seems the conceptual views of haunted mirrors and self mutilation were split down the …
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