Film Reviews

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Irena Gallier, a beautiful young woman, is on the brink of sexuality. She discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences. However, the tremendous passion of this girl’s first romantic love is so strong, it bypasses the terror around her – including her brother’s extraordinary demands – …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Joshua Licet wakes up with his wife missing he must decide whether to lock himself in his house for forty days and 40 nights of torture or to leave her to die. REVIEW: 99 Pieces is a grim psychological horror film which manages to sustain an excellent sense of foreboding from start to finish. Independent …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Doctor Robert Morgan is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now – or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims become part of a hellish undead army that’s thirsting for blood – his!” …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman’s body. REVIEW: For those too young to remember, ninjas were incredibly popular during the 1980s to the point that one could say media was oversaturated with them. They were showing up in comic books, toy lines, television shows, and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs. REVIEW: 1924’s The Hounds of Zaroff by Richard Connell is a story perhaps best known as The Most Dangerous Game. It’s the simple tale of a simple aristocrat with a simple desire: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man’s struggle to come to grips with his deteriorating mental state stemming from losing the love of his life. REVIEW: Though I’ve yet to witness the unrelenting grip of grief (it lands on each of us at some point, the spin of the bottle not resting in my direction yet), I can grasp at some …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: BSAA Chris Redfield enlists the help of government agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers from Alexander Institute of Biotechnology to stop a death merchant with a vengeance from spreading a deadly virus in New York. REVIEW: Let’s take the clocks back to the 1990s. This was when Konami still made good games and didn’t …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: To celebrate his birthday (and to get over the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him) Brady heads to Mexico with his friend Tommy for a fun-filled adventure. Unfortunately after hooking up with a couple of women-who aren’t exactly what they seem to be-Brady’s birthday becomes a living nightmare that he may not survive. REVIEW: I …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail. REVIEW: An older short film from 1949 that has often been noted for its extreme characteristics. Called …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Forgotten King Elrick battles back from hell and beyond to retrieve the mystical artifact, Odin’s Horn, before the Mighty Thor and his army can unleash its powers to conquer the world. REVIEW: What happens when Thor (Conan Stevens) gets pissed off over the idea that Scandinavia has become awash with the notion of Christianity, forgetting about the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A modern, Midwestern spin on the Giallo about a man with a sordid past who returns to the small town he abandoned to bury his niece. Convinced she was murdered he begins uncovering the town’s dark secrets, racking up a very high body count. REVIEW:  Three Tears on Bloodstained Flesh might sound like the title of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Returning to his hometown for the first time since his big money move to the professional leagues, Sam Lorit expects a joyful homecoming and a routine cup-game victory. But with the zombie outbreak fueling bitter rivalries, the players and their entourage are dragged into a brutal game for their lives. REVIEW: I am not a fan …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends. REVIEW: Asian vampire movies are usually a love or hate impacting experience for me. On one hand, you have …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four brilliant minds have been sent an invitation to attend a gathering. At the gathering the group of four is supposed to help solve a mathematic enigma, and essentially celebrate how brilliant they are. The four brilliant minds however soon learn that not only do they all know each other, but someone wants the four of …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out! Producer Howard Hawks’ adaptation of the John Campbell story of an arctic expedition that runs afoul of a …