Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While serving detention for a horrific incident, four students are locked in a school and hunted by a gang dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While fighting to survive, each student must confront past traumas. REVIEW: I was always told patience is a virtue, and this saying holds true for The Dead Ones. The …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie virus has in the last 4 years spread to all South Korea. 4 Koreans in HK sail thru the blockade to Incheon for USD20,000,000 on a truck. REVIEW: I am historically not a great fan of the zombie films. I have my favourites, but it is certainly not my go-to sub-genre in the world …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: SLEEPLESS BEAUTY tells a twisted story about a young woman, Mila, who is kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as Recreation. Her unknown abductors talk to her through a loudspeaker and set strict rules: she cannot sleep and has to fulfill bizarre and violent tasks if she hopes to stay alive. At first, it looks like someone’s sick idea of entertainment …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of coarse, happy-go-lucky cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of Eight Immortals Restaurant, which serves delicious pork bao. The hands belong to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set against the autumnal palette of harvest season in 1973, THE CURSE OF AUDREY EARNSHAW explores the disturbed bond between Audrey, an enigmatic young woman, and Agatha, her domineering ‘mother’, who live secretly as occultists on the outskirts of a remote Protestant village. As the community is besieged by a pestilence of unknown origin: children, fields, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Director Meir Zarchi’s revenge movie has the dubious honor of containing one of the longest and most violent gang-rape scenes on film. When writer Jenny Hill (Camille Keaton) rents a remote cabin, she’s surprised to find that the local townsfolk are friendly — too friendly, in fact. What follows is decidedly unpleasant: After being brutalized, violated …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home. REVIEW: I love haunted house/ghost/psychological movies. There is always something eerie and unbeknownst that no matter where you are or where you go? There is something creepy on the horizon. Relic is directed by Natalie Erika James (Creswick) and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Shawn, an automotive designer, enjoys an idyllic life with his new wife Jasmine until it is interrupted by a cryptic message. The message warns of imminent danger and a curse that has afflicted his family for generations. REVIEW: Effects overtake plot in this fantasy action film, Jinn from Ajmal Zaheer Ahmed that is more show reel …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A strange man arrives in a small town looking for his wife only to be assaulted and left for dead by a group of local punks. A teenager comes to his aid only to discover that the man isn’t quite what he seems.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kikuo, a socially inept teenager, has a fascination for carnivorous plants and the minutiae of human waste. He works in a love hotel, cleaning up the filth left behind after every quickie. His isolation is reinforced by the perverse behavior of his workmates, and he soon begins to fixate on an attractive stranger. As he habitually …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mecanix tells the story of the last human beings who are forced to be the slaves of the strange creatures that rule this strange world.There is only one thing these beasts fear – the embryo of the universe : the origin of everything. The only hope that the humans have is to free themselves from this …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: In an instant, Martin’s teenage world is turned upside down. Before he and his family can escape the ravages of an apocalyptic world overrun by viscous, hungry vampires, Martin’s entire family is slaughtered. The only thing between him and certain death is a mysterious vampire hunter named Mister (Nick Damici) who takes Martin (Connor Paolo) under his …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: R. N. Renfield, once the slave of Dracula, is now an insane vampire stalking a modern day metropolis (Bayou City). REVIEW: There was a time when video games had the technology to add real video to the experience but budget constraints were still an issue. Some games, “Command & Conquer” and “Wing Commander” are good examples, have …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Michael Silna has just gotten custody of his only sister’s son after she was murdered by her husband before his very eyes. To fulfill his sister’s dying wish, Michael takes his nephew and wife and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father who is obsessed with building …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three kids happen upon a creepy clown on Halloween. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have RIVER ROAD, written and directed by Doug Strong. The film is brought to us by Strong Brothers Films, a collaboration of Indie filmmakers based in Cincinnati. In the real world, most of us remember a few years ago when …