Film Reviews

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Celebrating her anniversary Detective Bailer Parker finds a letter with files inside documenting the violent events that ultimately lead to her sisters disappearance. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE ROCKSIDE FILES, directed by Ronnie Wilson, story by Ronnie Wilson and Tony Valdez. The film opens with a para-military guy suiting up as he …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman struggles to fight her anxiety, and the malevolent creature inside her, while she prepares to go out to a party.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Having survived a harrowing plane crash, an army pilot finds himself suspended from a canopy of trees high above the forest floor by his parachute. After making contact with his co-pilot on the ground, they realize that something is stalking them in the dark. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have SUSPENSE, written and directed …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Super-cut of three shorts I made by myself in quarantine. REVIEW: QUARENTINE…. It’s a nerve-wracking word. I’m not sure how good we would do in a zombie apocalypse, considering everyone brought toilet paper in bulk. I’m still wondering about that. So, along comes Panic Fest 2021 and this wildly amazing, life altering short film.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A widow employs the dark arts to see her husband once more. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have BILL, written and directed by Dan Gitsham & Sophie Mair. They are a husband and wife team of filmmakers working under the umbrella Sketchbook Pictures. Our story opens on a widow (Roxana Vilk) who is doing …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple’s last chance of hope is escaping a mad man’s bloody house of death. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have BLOODBATH ON 4TH AVENUE, distributed by Mort House Films, written and directed by Candy Domme. Score by Josh Schultz. So Mort House Films is the creation of a husband and wife team, which …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vacationing family turns the tables on a mass shooter who claims to be fighting demonic forces. REVIEW: Panic Fest 2021 has such a great line-up of films by some excellent filmmakers. Timothy Covell wrote and directed Blood Conscious. We meet the Tony, Brittney, and Kevin. Brittney and Kevin are brother and sister. Tony and Brittney …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Daniel and Sara have a 9-year-old son, Eric, and they’ve just moved to a new home not knowing the neighbours call it “the house of the voices”. Eric is the first one to notice the odd noises behind each door.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe. REVIEW: The line-up of feature films and short films is so good. Panic Fest 2021 will have some in-person screenings, socially distanced of course. I spoke with one of the Co-Founders of Panic Fest and he was excited for the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After surviving assault, a 17-year-old Mexican girl finds retribution through her untapped female power and local witch culture. REVIEW: Directed by Ashley George and written by Alonso Diaz-Rickards, Ashley George, and Maya Korn. Nayeli (Ruth Ramos) is walking though town and she stops to talk to some people. She’s just out minding her own business. The …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Short film about a pre-Thanksgiving fight between a young couple debating on whether to visit in-laws that turns gruesome.” REVIEW: Written and directed by Ty Jones, with Justin Nosler (writing credit). Crock Pot is a gem. Maybe it was quarantine or the fact that everybody uses crock pots? I wanted to see this short film. Tina …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A horror anthology that includes segments about a horrible first date, an overprotective mother, and a nightmarish drug trip. REVIEW: I was blown away by Brimstone Incorporated and have to say that it is the best movie that I’ve seen so far this year. I’ve always been a sucker for horror anthologies, and this is one …