Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent. REVIEW: There’s been countless iterations of the Body Swap trope. It’s a basic setup with limitless potential. Show your two characters’ lives, swap them up, shenanigans ensue, they learn about …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A dark comedy short film that follows Matt and Jeff, two hapless local paranormal investigators in the wake of a community becoming more skeptical of the supernatural. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have GHOST SEARCHERS, directed by Neil George, written by Neil George, Lauren Hussey, and Hannah Spaulding. Our story follows a pair of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Directed by Alister Grierson (Sanctum) BLOODY HELL follows a man with a mysterious past who flees the country to escape his own personal hell… only to arrive somewhere much, much, much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified Conscience. Together, they must race against time to free themselves from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An unwanted visitor in your home REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE UNLORD. No credits, can’t find any listings, so I’m just gonna wing it on this one. I did find the you tube channel for a Raymond Morrison, who posted this film there, so I will assume he is perhaps the director …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A horror film based on my compulsive urge to check if the stove is off

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 …