Film Reviews

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A large group of people gather, ready to perform auditions for a new, different kind of show. It’s an online reality show, but none of the prospective performers know much about it. Unfortunate for them, they might get killed on it. Assuming they don’t, they could win one million dollars. REVIEW: Wow, what a bunch of attractive …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearance within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city’s surface.” REVIEW: Ellefson Films presents: DWELLERS (2021) Directed and written by Drew Fortier, Dwellers is a found footage film. Dwellers is this mix of C.H.U.D. (1984) meets …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man documents his girlfriend’s 35th birthday on his phone. What he captures throughout the night are the most disturbing human acts imaginable. REVIEW: Out of the myriad sub-genres that make up the wonderful world of horror that we all love, perhaps one of the most maligned is the good old cannibal movie. Much like the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two siblings unearth an ancient alien overlord and all hell breaks loose on earth as those from his home planet try to stop him from destroying the universe.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When an alcohol fueled hook up takes a violent and horrifying turn, three college athletes find themselves haunted by the very girl they left for dead. REVIEW: Think of female-led revenge flicks and a few heavy hitters in the horror genre spring to mind, including 70s pioneers Carrie and I Spit On Your Grave; the latter …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When down on her luck Jane Dormant learns about the death of her Aunt Alexandra she expects a life-saving inheritance but finds herself battling bloodthirsty Zombies instead, fighting for her life. REVIEW: Hobbes House is a property cursed because of an ancient incident with corrupt siblings. The curse maintains that the family lineage are the caretakers …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Steve struggles to care for his wife who has only a few weeks to live. While trying to stay strong, Steve tries to develop a cure by ignoring all legal and moral limits with his treatment methods. REVIEW: I have always been one of those folks who wonders about what happens after the events of the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins REVIEW: The third installment in the Korean Whispering Corridors horror franchise once again takes us to the bitterly competitive world of …

Rate This Movie Hi Jacob, I really liked this movie. You really put a twist on Dreamcatcher.  How did this idea manifest for you? J.J.- I have such a love for the genre. I think you can really explore so many different things. It’s a manifestation of saying, I want to tell a really interesting character story with the back …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young couple look to prevent an evil spirit from trapping their souls in the realm between sleep and reality. REVIEW: There’s something to be said for brevity in horror; many a potentially good movie has been weighed down by an excess of plot padding and obvious exposition, two things that can kill any building tension …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young psychologist heads to an infamous haunted place named ‘Howling Village’ in order to find out her family’s dark history. REVIEW: Takashi Shimizu’s Howling Village seemed to go largely under the Western horror radar last year. Of course, there was a global pandemic to worry about, but I was still very surprised that a new …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside. REVIEW: Directed by Will Wernick, Safer at Home was also written by …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple’s door. REVIEW: It’s 1987. Chris is the potentially-cool/possibly-dweeb new kid in school, and he’s already being called to the principal’s office before he knows how to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The film follows Katie, a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can’t escape the signs that “the devils” are coming for Stephanie, a woman with Down syndrome …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she’s released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon. REVIEW: It seems hard to believe that the Blumhouse studio has been churning out horror movies …