Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned…with someone or something new on-board. REVIEW: It’s quite possible that Event Horizon may be among one of the most chilling films ever created. Then again the backlash from critics and sci fi horror fans complaining of plot holes, fragmented story …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Will, a young Hispanic gay potter, is one gregarious guy. His boss is terrible, but he’s got a great boyfriend and a great job. Unfortunately, behind that veneer is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is desperate to keep hidden. When his bipolar mother comes out of the woodwork after ten years …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. REVIEW: “Crimes of the Future” is the latest creation from visionary David Cronenberg in over 8 years. It arrives during a time of change and uncertainty …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Follows Roscoe, a seedy motel maintenance man, after discovering some powerful hallucinogenic worms he meets Benny, They fall in love making worms together before embarking on an odyssey of sex and violence. REVIEW: Everyone wants to feel good. Some get their high from working out; others from eating their favorite foods. Then again, some literally get …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of high school cheerleaders and football players are terrorized by their school’s homicidal mascot after the death of a classmate. REVIEW: I thought that Varsity Blood sounded like it might be a fun little movie when I first heard about it so I went into it with high hopes. The premise sounded like a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies. REVIEW: Michel Hazanavicius, writer and director of the multi-Academy Award winning film, “The Artist”, dips his feet into the vast pool that is the genre film to write and direct his first comedy-horror in “Coupez!” …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Octogenarian who enters into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparking a series of paranormal events that will put his family’s lives at risk. REVIEW: Although it is a privilege of life to grow old, it isn’t always easy. Physically, life moves at a different pace than what you were used. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six friends start a business, providing guided tours to the shooting locations of the world’s most famous horror films, until they find the one spot where the horror is real. REVIEW: Terror Trips was directed and written by Jeff Seeman (Haunt, Wrong Turn). Terror Trips is the first film directed and written by Jeff Seeman. I …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Follows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy. REVIEW: The line between risk and reward is often a fine one to walk along. Smuggling drugs across the border could easily fall into this category of reaping an important payment if you can overcome the risk of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Best friends Hodu and Yeji are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, Hodu luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. Yeji, who has been kicked out of her parents’ house, also stays there with him. They gradually feel a strange energy in the house that seemed perfect. They encounter …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years. REVIEW: This is Us… No… wait… This is GWAR. Scott Barber directs this incredible documentary about GWAR. Who is GWAR? You may be asking yourself this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman struggles with her lifelong fear of home invasion, in this three-and-a-half-minute horror film told in a single shot. REVIEW: Sleep was included with the Dangerous Visions Vol. 1- CFF 2022 Horror & Genre Shorts Showcase. It was written and directed by Alexandra Pechman, and stars Kate Adams. The short films have been incredible so …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Harold has been given a bag of dirt, and he needs to get rid of it immediately. REVIEW: Directed and written by, Karsten Runquist. As a writer, I often wonder what my mind is trying to process and come up with. Dirtbag is yet again making me think about my fellow writers out there in the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six years after the abduction of his daughter, a man is hired to kill the author of a fantasy novel, but the world of the novel seems to intersect with reality. REVIEW: The director Lu Yang (Brotherhood of Blades, The Sacrifice) brings together two parallel worlds in a high energy fantasy adventure, filled with action and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ken Russell, the director of Tommy and The Devils shifts into sensory overload with his hyper stylized biography of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt—a lascivious librettist who careens from proto pop stardom to Marxist revolutionary, ultimately becoming a catholic missionary to battle his arch nemesis —German composer Richard Wagner. Just picture the cult favorite cheese fest, rock …