Film Reviews

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 …

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 …