Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the final days of World War II, a secret experiment to weaponize sharks is shut down and destroyed by the Third Reich. But now 60 years later, a small ocean town is plagued by a bloodthirsty, mysterious creature, one built and reanimated using parts of the greatest killers to ever inhabit in the sea – …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “A slave from outer space escapes to earth. Except for his three-toed feet, he looks like an ordinary young black man. He crash-lands on Ellis Island, appropriately enough, and ends up in Harlem. There he makes friends with the owner and the regulars of a bar. Because he can fix any machine (by simply touching it), he’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three disgruntled orphans spend their nights picking up hookers, then raping and killing them. Things get a bit more complicated when they anger a local gangster leader, and then when one of them falls in love with one of their victims. REVIEW: Prostitute killers by the director Sam Shu-Pui Ho pretty much delivers exactly what one …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him. REVIEW: I have long been a fan of Stanley Kubrick’s work. His film releases have inspired me in other …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait. REVIEW: So I am guessing that every review starts out this way…., no, not the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Inquisition. REVIEW: There is something about these Inquisition films, that really strike a chord with me. Maybe it’s that combination of right and wrong all combined that seems so absurd but real …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman joins an underground game of pain endurance, hoping to win the prize; US$1 million. She soon discovers the game’s rigged, and the real opponent is the man- a sadistic psychopath, who’s created the game. As things progress, she’s forced to endure ever-increasing torturous pain, as her opponent engages ever-more horrific methods to manipulate …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A social worker in a primary school must manage the case of a student who hasn’t been attending classes for several weeks. When she arrives at the boy’s house, she discovers an unexpected reality. REVIEW: Another short film, kids! Today we have HASTA LAS ENTRANAS (FROM THE GUTS). This is a short film from Argentina in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people. REVIEW: After having to suffer through Bela Lugosi Meets …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the 1950’s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area. REVIEW: Being a little kid before the days of the Internet was a different world. You were kept in the dark about a lot …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. REVIEW: Getting right to the point, “The Curse of La Llorona” is a simply a great horror film! Seeing it first in theatres and then now per home …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell. REVIEW: An innocent childhood game goes wrong when a one of the kids playing goes missing. Eight years …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Attendees of a marriage boot camp on a remote island have to fight a 6-headed shark that attacks the beach. REVIEW: When assigned movies to review, I usually have a hard time deciding where to begin. With the fact that most of the films I end up reviewing end up being endurance tests of my will …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A feature film director and his crew begin to question their debut production when the spirit of a murdered actress possesses a celluloid reel. REVIEW: Director: Hideo Nakata Cast: Yûrei Yanagi, Yasuyo Shiroshima, Kei Ishibashi, Ren Osugi, Takanori Kikuchi, Reita Serizawa. The Examination: Kindergarten Ghost Story. Japanese director Hideo Nakata achieved a degree of fame with Ringu, and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? REVIEW: Something you have never seen before? sorta…… Right off the bat, I really enjoyed this movie,  a mash up of super hero meets horror  combination. That in itself is …