Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When her classmate Ritsuko disappears, her friend Ryoko is desperate to find her. When she discovers that Ritsuko was playing a strange game online of hide and seek, she begins to wonder if it could be related to her disappearance somehow. Ryoko then discovers that the game is more sinister than it appeared at first. It …
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Film Review: BloodWood Cannibals (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A documentary film crew is stalked by a pack of cannibals. REVIEW: In the film’s introduction, we are told that the Northern Ca eco system is in peril with animals and predators relocating due to forest fires. Along with the relocation, comes a problem of finding new ways to feed. The forest’s wildest hunters..aka man have …
Read More »Film Review: 1408 (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: No one can explain the strange goings-on in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel. In this thriller based on a Stephen King story, writer and paranormal debunker Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is determined to demystify the ghostly events, even though a hotel clerk (Samuel L. Jackson) begs him to rethink his plans. Mike needs to write …
Read More »Film Review: Gutterballs (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After two adversarial groups of teenagers clash at a bowling alley during its midnight disco party, one of the girls is violently raped. The next night, all the kids return for a revenge session but are surprised to encounter a homicidal stranger. Wearing a bowling bag on his head to disguise his identity, the killer begins …
Read More »Film Review: Shock Labyrinth (3D) (2009)
SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers take a sick to a hospital only to find out it is a horrific labyrinth REVIEW: Director – Takashi Shimizu Starring – Yuya Yagira, Ai Maeda, Misako Renbutsu I am a big fan of The Grudge, both the Japanese original version and the American remake, so when I saw that this was directed by Takashi …
Read More »Film Review: The Book of Eli (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eli (Denzel Washington) has been on a journey for 30 years, walking west across America after a cataclysmic war that turned the earth into a total wasteland. The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed. The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a …
Read More »Film Review: Able (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Terrified Berliners struggle to survive each other and their own failing bodies during a sudden epidemic of progressive paralysis. REVIEW: Able is a new independent feature from Stotler / Robert Films As we are plunged into the dreary on screen world. we are at the moment of dying. The planet as it appears has become victim …
Read More »Top 20 Cult Film Directors
Celebrate the day! Being a long time follower of cult films over the years, I figured it was due time to create an appropriate Top 20 list of Cult Film Directors for readers who might “still” be seeking out worthy films to indulge in (Director collectives..that is). I knew creating this list that not every favorite cult director would make …
Read More »Film Review: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Protagonist Alex is an ultraviolent youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he’s arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will …
Read More »Film Review: Gums (1976)
SYNOPSIS: A killer nympho mermaid with an oral fixation prowls the ocean waters, devouring – up to a point – any man unlucky enough to be swimming naked. REVIEW: So in 1975 Steven Spielberg directs one of the greatest horror films ever made “Jaws” starring Roy Schneider, Richard Shaw, and a then unknown Richard Dreyfuss. This is one of the …
Read More »Film Review: The Inner Room (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While visiting a cabin with her husband, Julianne becomes disturbed with horrific visions which question her sanity. REVIEW: I just spent 15 minutes trying to decide if I could get away with my entire review saying only: This film is pointless. But that doesn’t seem fair. Not to the people that actually took the time to …
Read More »Film Review: Dolemite (1975)
SYNOPSIS: Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did …
Read More »Film Review: Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
SYNOPSIS: In a fantastical 40’s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome. REVIEW: Does anyone remember this film? If you are a big H. P. Lovecraft fan, then this one has been on the radar for quite some time. Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) is one of those legacy films left …
Read More »Film Review: Altered States (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. REVIEW: “Altered States” “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” -Dr. Johnson. This film is a juggernaut of intellectual and stylistic eye candy, it is apocalyptic in …
Read More »Film Review: KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
SYNOPSIS: The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to uses the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS …
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