Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a mysterious accident a young architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world. He must find out the exact laws and regulations of it as he fights for his life and keeps on looking for the exit to the real world. REVIEW: Reapers strange worlds, fantasy realms, and a heavy coating of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Cursed Films is a five part documentary series which explores the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously cursed horror film productions. REVIEW: Cursed Films from SHUDDER. This is a fascinating subject. Jay Cheel wrote and directed the five episodes. I remember growing up and hearing all sorts of stories about Poltergeist and then of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a punk rock band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie. REVIEW: Blood, guts, zombies, punk rock! What more could you ask for? Uncle Peckerhead was written and directed by Matthew John Lawrence. We meet Judy (Chet Siegel). She is at …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Doomsday Book is an anthology movie, split into 3 different chapters. The first Chapter, entitled Heaven’s Creation, is about a robot who comes alive and follows what happens afterward. The second Chapter, entitled The New Generation, is a story from the point of view of a boy who is now a zombie. The third Chapter, entitled …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sheriff makes a strange discovery when he gets called to an orchard where three teenage sisters have been attacked by a band  REVIEW: After we witness the gruesome death (I presume, as it’s off screen) of a serial killer in his orchard, we meet an average city family who move into said killer’s “old farmhouse”, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Halloween fun turns to horror when young friends ignore the warnings of a local urban legend and unintentionally unleash a gruesome creature known as Never Knock, that uses their worst fears to stalk and kill them one by one REVIEW: Why does seeing “A Syfy Original” at the beginning of a movie bring on a sense …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult’s former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Suspecting that his childhood friend, a professional boxer, is having an affair with his fiancee, a businessman starts training rigorously himself in order to take him down. REVIEW: Shin’ya Tsukamoto continues to explore the themes of metamorphosis, love and urban alienation in his 1995 boxing drama Tokyo Fist. It may not take the bodily transformations quite …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A successful businessman, with a wife and daughter, has his happy home life destroyed when three junkies hold his family hostage and use his personal information against him. REVIEW: Found footage was once the poster child of horror, but is now the overbearing uncle who wears the same tacky bargain basement suit and says the same …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of teens trapped on an island, and are haunted by a demon hidden inside a pinata. REVIEW: When I saw the title of this particular movie, I was a bit curious because I had never heard of it. I decided to look it up. When I saw that it was actually the film Pinata: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything. REVIEW: While the name Shin’ya Tsukamoto is without a doubt most synonymous with the Japanese cyberpunk movement …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life. This obscure film became infamous after Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988) riffed on it. REVIEW: This particular descent into badness holds not only the distinction of being on one …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega. REVIEW: Italian filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s became infamous for cranking out films that were rip-offs of other more popular flicks. This is actually fairly well known. As soon as a genre became popular, they were …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Emerson Graham’s nights as a cab driver are filled with annoyances and inconveniences, but until tonight, never attacks and disappearances. After picking up a mysterious passenger her evening goes from working a job to performing a quest as they must race against the clock to defeat a force of evil. The meter is running. REVIEW: Got …