Film Reviews

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip’s butt. REVIEW: “Butt Boy”. Yes, that is really the title of today’s film. “Butt Boy”. When I saw that title in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of five friends get stuck in a flooding cave with a territorial crocodile. Their survival depends on their ability to outwit the creature and survive their troubled relationships. REVIEW: Directors: Andrew Traucki Writers: John Ridley, Sarah Smith Starring: Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Benjamin Hoetjes, Anthony J. Sharpe Black Water: Abyss (2020) is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A gang of losers decide to break into a house to steal the money that is supposedly hidden somewhere inside. Unfortunately, the elderly owners who live there come home in the middle of everything, and they aren’t quite as helpless as they seem. Based on the graphic novel Une nuit de pleine lune. REVIEW: I wasn’t …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A small-town journalist is sent to cover the opening of a controversial church. As the ministry digs its roots into the town and its residents, her life takes an unexpected, violent turn that will shake her foundations to their very core. REVIEW: Churches and religious cults gone amok have provided the backbone story to many movies …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A successful doctor, Yukio’s picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio’s wife. REVIEW: Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s mystery drama Gemini breaks away from the master filmmaker’s customary conventions, but still maintains the same ferocious …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Eleanor, Theo, and Luke decide to take part in a sleep study at a huge mansion they get more than they bargained for when Dr. Marrow tells them of the house’s ghostly past. REVIEW: With direction by Jan De Bont, The Haunting, a 1999 Dreamworks big budget ghost story with an equally big budget cast, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Chris makes a life altering choice that comes back to not only haunt him, but seek REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have ETARTSAC, written and directed (and I believe also starring) Chris Magennis. So this was a strange one, and I’m not sure where to start. The story starts with our hero driving out …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Drawn to a mysterious window, a man (Max Cianci) decides to investigate a seemingly abandoned building. Once inside, he discovers a series of trails that hint that he may not be alone. As he makes his way to the source of his curiosity, what he uncovers is worse than he could ever imagine. REVIEW: Hey kids! …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Marcy and her husband live together in a constant state of disarray. Her husband continually demands Marcy make him sandwiches, ad nauseam – but how long can she withstand his abuse before she finally cracks? REVIEW: Hey kids! More short films! Today we have MAKE ME A SANDWICH, written and directed by Denman Hatch. According to …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: Hey kids! More short films for you! Today we have BACK UP, written and directed by Aaron Fradkin and Victoria Fratz. They have worked together previously on the award winning film ELECTRIC LOVE,  which won best film at the 2018 San Diego International Film Festival. Our story begins with a young woman (played by Ms. Fratz) …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have  ZOMBIPHOSATE, from Les Films Guacamole. The version I have is in french with no subtitles so I had to make the best of it. Louise, Sam, Alain and Sophie go for a hike in the forest. There is some sort of news break on the radio that seems to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five friends go on a weekend getaway to a cabin in Upstate New York, where time and space begins to function without reason, only to slowly turn them against each other one by one. REVIEW: As we all know, going to a cottage in the forest suggests a delightful weekend away. Going to a cabin in …