Film Reviews

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have CHAIN LETTER, directed by Aaron Fradkin, written by Aaron Fradkin and Victoria Fratz. The title tells you what we’re dealing with. We’ve all gotten that email or social media post – share the money cat or face devastation! – and of course most of us toss it to the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A grad student breaks up with her boyfriend to focus on her thesis, not realizing something has infected him that he’s going to wreak havoc on her life.” REVIEW: Written and directed by: Andrew Merrill. Rot opens with a happy picturesque couple. Madison (Kris Alexandrea) and Jesse (Johnny Kostrey). Then it all breaks apart like something …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On a late night at an empty train station, a lone traveler is terrorized by a creepy smiling woman. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have SMILING WOMAN, written and directed by Alex Magaña. This is a super short creep-out story so I don’t want to give anything away. Basically, our hero (Ariel Fullinwider) is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An extremely annoying woman sleeps with several different men and then kills them for their money. After disposing of a handful of them she runs across the wrong guy who happens to be a serial killer who plans out taking her out before she can kill him first. REVIEW: Remember those old trashy soft-core Skinemax pornos …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic. REVIEW: With a cast featuring the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro and Cillian Murphy, it pays to take notice. Though let’s not forget our new up-and-comer Elizabeth Olsen rounding out this great film. We live in a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Behind the acclaimed work of a renowned tattoo studio lurks an unimaginable evil. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE TATTOOIST, a first-time horror from writer/director  Michael Wong. Mr. Wong works primarily in China and  is the director of a feature length drama called THE STORY OF 90 COINS. A skeevy tattoo parlor, in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A med student (Leelee Sobieski), a salesman (Steve Zahn) and a train conductor (Danny Glover) become unlikely allies when a passenger dies on their night train, leaving behind a fortune in diamonds. Deciding to dump the body and split the loot, the trio embarks on a gruesome mission. Disposing of the corpse, however, proves to be …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Detective Burt Williams has been pursuing the infamous “Poe killer” for many years. He reluctantly steps down from the case and retires after getting nowhere. Burt’s daughter Kris Williams, who works for the FBI, along with her partner Sean Michael’s take over the case. For the next few months the “Poe Killer” continues his killing spree. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set almost entirely within an an abandoned amusement park in Chippewa Lake, Ohio, Closed for the Season has a young woman (Kristy – Aimme Brooks) awaken to find herself trapped in the park grounds. Confused, disoriented and afraid, she encounters a terrifying carnival barker (Joe Unger) who bombards her with visions of death and terror from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Somewhere deep in the jungle a chemical corporation dumps tons of toxic waste in a still active volcano. Two environmentalists try to expose these illegal ways of getting rid of hugely dangerous waste, but they get caught by the vigilantes working for the company. One of them, the super-hot Maria Giulia Cavalli, manages to escape and …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: In what may or may not all be a (f*cking cruel) nightmare, a man wanders around a series of plastic-coated corridors, observing as a number of helpless victims are brutally murdered before him. Tables are turned slightly for the nightmare’s second half, but it’s still just another forty five minutes of repetitive torture. That’s about it, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eddie Brewer is an old-school paranormal investigator, being followed as part of a documentary . REVIEW: Wonderfully creepy! You can embrace those words and prepare yourself for a damn eerie experience with new film “The Case of Eddie Brewer“. We’ve come to a point in horror cinema that the mere mention of a “cinema verite” or …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a Nazi war experiment goes horribly out of control, several soldiers pack the remains of their formidable weapon into a wooden craft and dispose of the harmful substance into the ocean. Years later the crate washes ashore on the banks of the sleepy Scottish town of Lobster Cove. Bennett Campbell, a ruthless real estate mogul …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron, in an Oscar-winning performance) faced difficult odds early in life, abusing drugs and becoming a prostitute (and pregnant) by the age of 13. Wuornos moved from Michigan to Florida where she continued to ply her “trade,” specializing in a clientele consisting mainly of truck drivers. It was during that time that she …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The lone survivor of an enigmatic Russian spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. REVIEW: Most horror fans will agree, I can say based on my travels, that space and aliens are excellent themes for horror movies. Of course, Ridley Scott’s original “Alien” made the hair stand up on …