Film Reviews

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 …

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 …