Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: University students, planning a bravery initiation test for their fellow classmates, choose a campus bridge rumored to be haunted by a vengeful female ghost. REVIEW: Taiwanese ghost horror The Bridge Curse brings Netflix audiences a predictable tale of ghostly revenge with very few original ideas. The story may take its cue from a real-life urban legend, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After Sang-Won’s daughter Yi-Na goes missing in their new home, a mysterious man approaches him and tells him to look for her in the closet. REVIEW: Director Kwang-bin Kim’s debut feature film The Closet offers melancholic thrills and atmospheric family drama, in a tidy 97-minute package. Some spoilers ahead. After losing his wife in a dramatic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man of the near future wistfully searches for love on a dating app, only to find out that it has been corrupted by a seductive new marketing system. REVIEW: Sweet Nothings is what I imagined the year of 2000 would be like. (Maybe) But that didn’t happen. We have come far with technology. I’m …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A murderer becomes a stand-up comedian clown broadcasting over the dark web, and narrates his life from a futuristic prison.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman entertains a macabre offer that would let her pursue her dreams, for better or for much much worse. REVIEW: Sure, good idea. Let’s watch the movie about sleep paralysis at 2 in the morning. Good idea. Directed and written by Minsun Park and Teddy Tenenbaum, Koreatown Ghost Story is fifteen minutes of terror, and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Do you ever wonder what the characters on TV are doing when you fall asleep in front of the the TV set? What if they stopped performing and just watched you? This was the childhood fear of Writer / Director Mando Franco. After completing the short Christmas slasher, XMASsacre, Mando and Jeff Samet joined forces and …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today I’m doing two films together, mainly because I think they are actually one film in two parts. The films are NOTHING IS WRONG and NEW NOT NORMAL, written directed and starring Ryan Oskenberg. This film (films?) won for Best Shut-in Short at Nightmares Film Festival 2020. So basically..this is a love …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two middle-aged bandmates find themselves finally successful with their band only because of their accidental deal with the devil. REVIEW: Hells Bells, written and directed by Jim O’ Rear and Scott Tepperman, is supposed to be a horror-comedy, but unfortunately, I didn’t find this movie to be funny or scary at all. While the concept of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural threat. REVIEW: Spencer is a driver for an online lift service. Hanging out near the airport, he scans the available clients requesting a ride until he finds Cami. Cami has just survived a rough flight …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Albanian castle with bloodthirsty creatures is inherited by a young woman. REVIEW: Stuart Gordon directed “Castle Freak” for Full Moon, who released it back in 1995. Since that time, the movie has become, to some horror fans, a beloved classic of the genre. Not hard to understand why. You have Jeffery Combs giving a solid, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Taking refuge in an abandoned cargo truck during the Zombie Apocalypse, a dysfunctional couple (and their dog) find their lives on the line when they make a deadly bet over how the undead virus spreads. Is a simple love bite now a death sentence? And how far will someone go to be proven right? REVIEW: Starring …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ridden with guilt after the untimely death of his wife from a rare blood disease, grief-stricken Getty turns his hobby shed into the bloody altar of worship and brutal sacrifice in his relentless search for Redemption. As he descends into madness, many will bleed.   REVIEW: Bloodshed was directed and written by Paolo Mancini and Daniel …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “In Pronoia, a man (Stelio Savante) and a woman (Hannah Jane McMurray) wait out a rainstorm in a hotel bar somewhere between ‘”here and nowhere.’ When the TV news reports the disappearance of a high-ranking Pentagon official, neither he nor she know of the ramifications it will have on their brief, seductive encounter.

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A late-night radio DJ is bitten by a vampire bat on her way to work, causing issues for her coworkers who planned to fire her after her show. REVIEW: Director: Erik Bloomquist Writer: Erik Bloomquist & Carson Bloomquist Starring: Caroline Williams, Adam Weppler, Nicole Kang, William Youmans, & Nicholas Tucci Ten Minutes To Midnight (2020) is a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A quiet, young woman moves into a new building and meets a reclusive engineer at the brink of completing a bizarre, extraordinary machine. REVIEW: Eric Jungmann (Not Another Teen Movie) directed, wrote, and stars in Body of the Mined. Ben (Leonard Kelly-Young) is doing experiments and then we meet Victor (Eric Jungmann). Blu (Nina Bloomgarden) moves …