Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Angela’s daughter, Annie (aka “Little Red”), mysteriously disappeared, but the police never found her body. While the mother begins to shed light on the mystery, a religious cult ruled by a matriarch known as the Grandmother, is leaving a trail of blood and carnage in its wake. The further the mother delves into madness, the deeper …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Directed by Aaron B. Koontz (Camera Obscura, Scare Package) who also co-wrote the script with Cameron Burns (Camera Obscura) and Keith Lansdale (“Creepshow”), THE PALE DOOR stars Devin Druid (“13 Reasons Why”), Zachary Knighton (“Happy Endings”), Noah Segan (Knives Out), Stan Shaw (Monster Squad), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills), Bill Sage (We Are What We Are) and Melora Walters (Magnolia).  The film is presented and executive produced by Joe R. Lansdale, the writer of Bubba Ho-Tep & Cold In July. REVIEW: In THE PALE DOOR, the Dalton gang finds shelter in a seemingly uninhabited ghost town after …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on. REVIEW: Ever watch a movie where, halfway through, you realize you utterly dislike …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to takeover the large estate. REVIEW: Sometimes, it is fun to imagine classic Hollywood films reworked into horror films. Instead of Rosebud being a sled, what if Rosebud was a ghost that haunted …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After 11-year-old Gitty discovers a man who can grant wishes hiding in her family’s silo, she is forced to choose between saving the man’s life and protecting her family. REVIEW: Back in the 80s, Reagan-era farmers were seeing a tidal wave of foreclosures on property due to economic issues. Many farms were bought and resold, leaving …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A story about a video of a group of people going hiking and a mysterious little girl in a red dress following them. REVIEW: The 2015 Taiwanese box-office hit The Tag-Along draws its inspiration from a combination of old mountain mythology and modern urban legends, creating an entertaining but annoyingly uneven horror experience. The story centres …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rich man with a much younger wife and child finds himself stuck in a supernatural rental house in rural Wales, where his past comes to haunt him. REVIEW: Directors: David Koepp Writers: David Koepp (script) & Daniel Kehlmann (original novel) Starring: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Tiiu Essex, Colin Blumenau Blumhouse and Universal’s 2020 flick …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by the owner of the place, who has the power to control his collection of mannequins. REVIEW: “Tourist Trap” was one of the sole reasons I took a renewed interest in the films of the 70’s. 1979 to be more specific. “Tourist Trap” is …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “A scientist living in an apartment complex kills a girl and uses acid to destroy her internal organs, and then kills himself. While investigating, a doctor discovers that the scientist was doing experiments on the use of genetically engineered parasites as organ transplants. Soon, other people in the complex begin showing signs of carrying the parasites, spreading …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, the characters of Immortal are left staring at eternity in the face with uncertainty and fear like they’ve never imagined. The film follows Chelsea, a high school track star who comes clean about sexual misconduct with her coach only to find out her confession might be too late, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Genetically mutated bats escape and it’s up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them. REVIEW: Today’s movie brings us back to the late ‘90s, where a bunch of films hit the cinemas centering on killer animals. Sometimes these animals were genetically altered by scientists, making them smarter and more aggressive (Deep Blue …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A salvage crew that discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea soon notices, as they try to tow it back to land, that “strange things” happen… REVIEW: “Ghost Ship” arrived in year 2002 with a title that you’d swear you’ve heard before. If I’m correct, there was …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Adapted from author Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf, this campy thriller tells of a sleepy American town that’s terrorized by extreme sadistic murders — seemingly, by a werewolf. While all the town’s inhabitants prepare to lock themselves up at night, Marty Coslaw, a 13-year-old, wheelchair-bound boy, is the only person brave enough to try to …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “After awakening from a five-year coma – the result of a serious car accident on his way home from an outing with his girlfriend – high school teacher Johnny Smith finds that he has developed the ability to foretell events. When a nurse is bathing him, he realizes that her house is on fire, endangering her daughter. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A doctor and his family move to a rural Maine town, where a dangerous road and a burial ground said to raise the dead leads to monstrous violence. REVIEW: Director: Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer Writers: Matt Greenberg (screen story), Jeff Buhler (screenplay), Stephen King (original novel) Starring: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence, …