Film Reviews

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “High school student Sarah (Stone) is at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money and brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of less than desirable people are sent to an abandoned school to retrieve and item for a crime lord. Once they get there, they discover it isn’t as abandoned as they thought as a deranged caretaker lives there with his hulking, homicidal “son,” and none of them may get out alive after everything is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dylan, known to his fans as DJ Dreamcatcher, is on the brink of global stardom. Everything changes the night of Cataclysm, an underground music festival, where two estranged sisters and their friends meet Dylan. After a drug fueled gruesome event, things begin to spiral into a 48-hour whirlwind of violence and mayhem. REVIEW: Directed and written …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Terror strikes when a lonely driver picks up a hitchhiker on a dark road. REVIEW: I don’t mind the odd one-locale film every now and again. It’s a very difficult feat to pull off. Minimal locations, characters and cameras make it pivotal that the script, dialog and acting is absolutely perfect otherwise it’s a dull affair. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A 16 year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry; a man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he’s not human at all. REVIEW: One of the oldest tropes in horror is that of the lone protagonist who discovers a secret …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night REVIEW: CCTV/Found Footage horror was a novel idea once. For a brief moment in its life-span, this sub-genre was the golden child of Horror and breathed new life into it, even making …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: You better not click if you want to survive. REVIEW:           From the director Tae-kyeong Kim (Dead Friend, Muoi: Legend of the Portrait) comes an unbalanced and unimaginative techno horror. It tried to cash in on the Ringu inspired viral curse trend but fails to deliver on the scare and the story department. At the centre of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened. REVIEW: Yoshimitsu Morita’s The Black House offers a slow burning, darkly comic tale of suspicion, deceit and murder. It will not be everyone’s cup of tea, but those who stick with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Written and directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer (Daniel Isn’t Real, Some Kind of Hate), ARCHEMENY stars Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”), Skylan Brooks (“Empire”), Zolee Griggs (“Wu-Tang: An American Saga”), Paul Scheer (“Black Monday”), Amy Seimetz (Pet Semetary) and Glenn Howerton (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”).  RLJE Films will release ARCHENEMY on DVD REVIEW: “Archenemy: a person who is extremely hostile or opposed to someone or something.” Courtesy of Google. Archenemy was directed by Adam Egypt …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A research team trying to prove supernatural theories about a crew’s disappearance on the merchant ship “the Mary Celeste”, discover more than they anticipated. REVIEW: Based on an actual legend, the Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. It was found slightly disheveled but in a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled deputy sheriff tries to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing Los Angles. REVIEW:  I didn’t know a single thing about The Little Things before I saw it and judging by the title assumed it was going to be a fun little horror flick involving little creatures along the lines of Ghoulies, Gremlins, or …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of college students head out for a fun weekend at a cabin in the woods only to be targeted by a ruthless killer who plans to chop them all to pieces. REVIEW: I did a little research on Alpine Lake before I watched it and most of the reviews, I found online made it …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A gay couple and their daughter move to a small town where everyone isn’t exactly who they seem to be. REVIEW: Warning: Spoilers Ahead Spiral, directed by Kurtis David Harder and written by John Poliquin and Colin Minihan, is a wild ride through a tragic backstory, a “quaint” suburban town, and people with lots of secrets. …