Film Reviews

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail. REVIEW: An older short film from 1949 that has often been noted for its extreme characteristics. Called …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Forgotten King Elrick battles back from hell and beyond to retrieve the mystical artifact, Odin’s Horn, before the Mighty Thor and his army can unleash its powers to conquer the world. REVIEW: What happens when Thor (Conan Stevens) gets pissed off over the idea that Scandinavia has become awash with the notion of Christianity, forgetting about the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A modern, Midwestern spin on the Giallo about a man with a sordid past who returns to the small town he abandoned to bury his niece. Convinced she was murdered he begins uncovering the town’s dark secrets, racking up a very high body count. REVIEW:  Three Tears on Bloodstained Flesh might sound like the title of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Returning to his hometown for the first time since his big money move to the professional leagues, Sam Lorit expects a joyful homecoming and a routine cup-game victory. But with the zombie outbreak fueling bitter rivalries, the players and their entourage are dragged into a brutal game for their lives. REVIEW: I am not a fan …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends. REVIEW: Asian vampire movies are usually a love or hate impacting experience for me. On one hand, you have …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four brilliant minds have been sent an invitation to attend a gathering. At the gathering the group of four is supposed to help solve a mathematic enigma, and essentially celebrate how brilliant they are. The four brilliant minds however soon learn that not only do they all know each other, but someone wants the four of …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out! Producer Howard Hawks’ adaptation of the John Campbell story of an arctic expedition that runs afoul of a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Real autopsy footage highlights this short film from Stan Brakhage. REVIEW: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes is a literal Greek translation of the word autopsy. Stan Brakhage gives us a view inside a normally closed off room, where coroners dissect bodies to determine cause of death and various pathologists research disease and its possible …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dark Vision Hub is hosting its paranormal reality show competition: make your own paranormal show and, should you win, it gets aired. So, a host of one of the contest’s entries takes his crew into a creepy old building—reportedly a 15th century plague hospital—with caverns under it. The supernatural forces inside are more authentic than at …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In an ancient world where monsters rule the land while humans keep to their own kingdom, a baby monster, Wuba, is born to a human father and monster queen. When mortals and creatures alike set out to capture the newborn, Wuba’s adventure begins. The cute baby monster Huba is the child of a human man and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three youngsters encounter an evil clown. REVIEW: The ghetto gets a horror icon… Well, that wasn’t my “first” thought when I used to see this film glaring back from the rental shelves. Scary clowns are usually a win-win with the number of phobic clown viewers in the world. I’m guessing though that with that being said, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a criminal gang botch a heist they find themselves drawn into a terrifying government conspiracy to cull the population.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two women, after losing their jobs at a high-end strip club, are determined to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles. The CEO, an unabashed womanizer who delights in the torment of women, is the only person standing in their way. REVIEW: It doesn’t take a whole lot to get me to enjoy a French …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jesus is always willing to lend a hand to those in need, but there are others … that will taste his fist. REVIEW: Just when you thought you’ve seen it all…. how about Jesus fudging a resurrection and raising the dead in the form of zombies? Well, this outrageous short film by David Muñoz is just …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vindictive and seductive teacher, a spinster and her sexy sister, and a lonely woman unable to cut the umbilical cord from her mother all appear in three separate stories from one of America’s preeminent writers, Richard Matheson, one of the greatest writers of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.