Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sensing evil, a haunted house tour guide seeks a medium’s help only to be warned that she is facing a vengeful power beyond her control. REVIEW: In the places it succeeds as a horror film, “Sisters of the Plague” effectively uses creepy music, cinematography, and forest settings to create a sense of foreboding. I’ve related to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After his colleague Schweitzer goes missing during a drug raid, undercover cop Till Hager is tasked with tracking down a mysterious new drug called “Abaddon” – a substance which supposedly drags its users down the deepest depths of hell. REVIEW: Psychedelic drugs have featured in many rock and roll films as well as some horror. Pink …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house. REVIEW: Sarah O’Neill recently moved into a remote house with her young son, Chris. The dad …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed an animal attack, the camp was condemned and the killer never found – but something horrific still waits in those woods. REVIEW: The majestic Big Foot has gone by many names: Sasquatch, Gigantopithecus, Harry. Whatever name you use, it all amounts …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. REVIEW: A paranoid delusional woman, Mary White, has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Mary suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields, is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An idealistic cop joins an underground police unit and battles ghoulish forces threatening the balance between the human and the supernatural realms REVIEW: <SPOILER ALERT> Our hero is Chen (Roy Chiu). A police officer with the ability to see dead people. When he’s saved by a spirit and tells his chief about it, he is promptly …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A down-on-her-luck woman tries to win back her ex-boyfriend at his engagement party without revealing that her recently strangled boss is in the trunk of her car.” REVIEW: Directed by Michael Kreuzriegler and written by Allison Marie Volk. Murder, mayhem, mystery, a dead person in the trunk of the car. This is a great movie. Deanna …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent group of young vicious punks. They first beat him severely and then he seeks revenge with his fist, then with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas. REVIEW: As horror fans, we’re all familiar with the various creatures and antagonists of the genre; vampires, werewolves, zombies, the list goes on and on. But …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While on the run from vampires, a group of survivors try to fight off their enemy while looking for lost loved ones in a world full of chaos. REVIEW: Warning: Mild spoilers ahead At the beginning of Red Spring, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The opening started off with a room full of bloody dead …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the Polaroid camera she finds. It doesn’t take long to discover that those who have their picture taken with it, soon die. REVIEW: Short movies from fledgling directors can sometimes offer an interesting glimpse as to who the next upcoming names to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him. REVIEW: The anthology horror movie; a sub-genre that’s seen more than its fair share of weird, wonderful and – let’s face it – pretty wonky efforts over the years. These go back much further than one might expect, with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A team of scientists has managed to capture the energy of a ghost child by using their newly invented device, Menger Sponge. They enlists a lip-reading agent in order to figure out how the child can shed light on life, and life after death. REVIEW: Taiwanese sci-fi/horror hybrid Silk offers a unique take on ghost hunting …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a routine traffic stop results in the unexplained, grisly death of her colleague, a cop (Mary J. Blige) realizes footage of the incident will play for her eyes only. As the attacks mount, she races to understand the supernatural force behind them. REVIEW: This is one of the most hot and anxiety filled times in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion. REVIEW: As stunt titles go, Killer Sofa, directed by Bernie Rao (Ina) is up there with Snakes on a Plane, Sharknado, and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies. The film’s artwork, which is likely right …