Film Reviews

SYNOPSIS: Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family who plans to offer them to their gods in a sick ancient Japanese ritual.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A demonic cult attempts to resurrect the dead. REVIEW: More short films. kiddies! Today we have FROM DARKNESS RETURNED, an entry from the 48 Hour Horror Film Project, directed by Remy Gareau and written by Mr. Gareau, Nelson D’Silva, Kara Mann, and Bryan Robinson.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Joshua must protect his twin-sister, Emma, who possesses supernatural abilities and keep her safe from an unstoppable secret agent hunting them for an experiment in a classified government program. REVIEW: I know many of you horror fans out there like superhero films. Maybe this was aimed at you because I don’t particularly like them and this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. REVIEW: The much-anticipated film “A Quiet Place” has been making a lot of noise at the box office as one of the surprise hits of 2018. A chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller, it takes the well-worn horror movie concept of quiet-quiet-bang to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a nerdy sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it’s only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure–now she must smoke out the entire school before it’s too late. REVIEW: Let’s take a look at 2014’s “The Coed and the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: SELL YOUR BODY is a horror-comedy about a med school dropout who is clawing her way out of crippling debt by luring a couple seeking a threesome on a dating app. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have SELL YOUR BODY, written and directed by Jaanelle Yee. Our hero, Hannah (Nadira Foster-Williams) is a med …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man documents his girlfriend’s 35th birthday on his phone. What he captures throughout the night are the most disturbing human acts imaginable. REVIEW: Human Hibachi is as grotesque and delicious as you might expect from a cannibal driven storyline. Just when you think the found footage genre has nothing else to offer, along comes a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! REVIEW: The first time I tried to watch The Devil Came from Akasava, it was entirely in German without any English subtitles. This led to some confusion …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vampire’s deadly plan for his guests is jeopardized when his dimwitted servant ruins their dinner. REVIEW: More short fims, kiddies! Today we have THE PHANTOM HOUR, written and directed by Brian Butler. This film was awarded an honorable mention at The International Horror Hotel in 2017.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Stories about a man repeating a bloody day running from the Yakuza; a woman’s violent encounter with her mirror image; a woman and her laser gun fighting of a shadowy demon; and a man being cursed by the famous Hachi-statue to become a werewolf pining for a prostitute. REVIEW: Tokyo Grand Guingnol gets its name from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls and another guest loose in his jungle preserve to serve as the prey in a mad hunt. Armed only with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Alien soldier Yalalia finds herself caught up in a conflict of moral and physical standings with a group of soldiers from Earth. Her integrity is tested to the limit as she desperately attempts to maintain peace at all costs.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In SCARE PACKAGE, Chad Buckley is a lonely Horror aficionado, spending his days overseeing a struggling video store and arguing with his only customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting job applicant arrives, Chad sets out to teach him the rules of Horror; weaving in and out of hilarious segments geared toward the ropes and tropes of terror. REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An attractive young women enters the world of a serial killer by having sex with him and being strangled. She lives and her story intertwines with many other lonely characters in this self-professed horror film that revolves around sexual choking and homicide. REVIEW: Review: Watching a horror movie that looks homemade is fine but the impact …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled method actor gets carried away with his work on a role, playing a butcher. REVIEW: Method acting in cinema has produced some wildly varied results over the decades; for every Brando or De Niro delivering a mesmerising powerhouse of a performance that lights up the screen, there’s a dozen Jared Letos or Shia LaBeoufs …