Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a downtown Tampa high rise project results in the discovery of ancient Indian artifacts, a brilliant but idealistic young archaeologist, Mallory Page (Kate Kissingford), steps in to preserve the native Tequesta Indian history of site. On the eve of her team’s eviction from the dig by the powerful politics of local progress, a discovery awaits …
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Film Review: Skyline (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Late one evening in LA, strange blue lights descend from the sky upon the city. They are the beginning of a hostile alien invasion. A small group of survivors look to escape the invasion as the armed forces attempt to beat them back. REVIEW: Hoo boy! I am still kind of run down from the fabulous …
Read More »Film Review: Look (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A high school teacher, a department store manager, a convenience store clerk, a lawyer and two sociopaths star in five interconnected stories, all filmed from the perspective of the hundreds of security cameras people pass, and ignore, every day. This fascinating drama from director Adam Rifkin underscores the increasing lack of privacy in the modern world …
Read More »Film Review: Long Pig (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A terrifying film that offers a decidedly different take on the gruesome practice of cannibalism. Long Pig – A culinary term that refers to human beings, which according to documented reports, tastes much like pork. For more than 100 years, Halloween night has traditionally been the night that America’s “cannibal elite” feast on Long Pig. These …
Read More »Film Review: Until the Light Takes Us (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Taking viewers deep inside the notorious “Inner Circle” that promoted murder, suicide and church burning in the Norwegian black metal subculture of the 1990s, filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell offer up a nuanced and fascinating documentary. Rare footage and interviews with musicians — including Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes and Jan Axel “Hellhammer” …
Read More »Film Review: Under the Raven’s Wing (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young filmmaker documents the murder confessions of three young women who seduce him into their strange world of spiritual “dimensions” and “transcendence.” The ringleader, Raven, holds everyone in her psychological grip, until her secret is exposed and a power struggle ensues. REVIEW: “Transcendence is a gift” Often the signs of a low budget film are …
Read More »Film Review: Vampeggedon (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Chased out of the old world, the dark vampire lord Giovanni flees to the American southwest where he sets up a new brood. Longshank, Brittan’s premier vampire slayer follows him here, and in a final confrontation in the Arizona desert both are killed. A hundred years later Melissa, a gorgeous, goth, lesbian college student, is obsessed …
Read More »Film Review: Mindflesh (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: MindFlesh is a psycho-sexual horror/thriller about obsession. Chris Jackson is a taxi driver with a childhood trauma. The trauma has made him a portal for obsessions to pass from the mind to the physical world and hence disrupt the world’s multiple planes of reality. Extraterrestrials that police the universe threaten to kill Chris’ friends unless he …
Read More »Film Review: 7 Days (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When his young daughter is raped and murdered, Dr Hamel decides to take matters into his own hands. Not satisfied with the fact that the man responsible will be going to prison the good normally level-headed, mild-mannered doctor abducts him and takes him to an empty cottage in the middle of the woods. He then goes …
Read More »Film Review: The Vampire Assassin (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After living the life of a free spirited spoiled rich vampire, terrorizing the Eastern European countryside, Veronica is brought before her clan elders and ordered to reign in her “bloodlust” or be ostracized by the rest of the clan REVIEW: FILM: THE VAMPIRE ASSASSIN (2007) FILM: BLOODLUST (2004) Greetings once again Boils and Ghouls, to another …
Read More »Film Review: Virus Undead (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Flocks of wild birds darken the sky – some birds fall dead, while others attack innocent people … Assistant doctor Robert is driving with two friends to his hometown – where the mansion of his grandfather stands. His grandfather is also one of the innocent victims of the birds. At a gas station he unexpectedly runs …
Read More »Film Review: How I Survived the Zombie Apocalypse (short) (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A single mother and her son struggle to stay alive in a shattered and brutal land where the undead roam the Earth REVIEW: A 10 minute short directed by Christian Cantamessa feels like a really cool episode plucked straight out of a top notch zombie film. I’ve seen my share of these things, and there is …
Read More »Film Review: Plague (short) (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Plague follows the journey of Vilhelm, a lone Latvian refugee, trying to escape a shady past of trafficking guns. He travels to Britain, feeling certain that he has put the worst behind him. The reality he finds is a living nightmare, the dead have risen to consume the living REVIEW: A dramatic zombie short that takes …
Read More »Film Review: Needle (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A killer uses an 18th century machine with supernatural powers to terrorize students at Saint Mary’s REVIEW: Don’t you love a movie about curiosities that should be better left alone. In this case, a box…(though it’s not square or presided over by a demon from the Cenobium tribe). However it’s rather mystic in its own right. …
Read More »Film Review: I Love Sarah Jane (short film) (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jimbo is 13 and can think of only one girl — Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way-bullies, violence, chaos, or zombies-nothing will stop him from finding a way into her world.
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