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 …
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Film Review: The Thing (1951)
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 …
Read More »Film Review: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (short film) (1971)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Real autopsy footage highlights this short film from Stan Brakhage. REVIEW: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes is a literal Greek translation of the word autopsy. Stan Brakhage gives us a view inside a normally closed off room, where coroners dissect bodies to determine cause of death and various pathologists research disease and its possible …
Read More »Film Review: Dark Vision (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dark Vision Hub is hosting its paranormal reality show competition: make your own paranormal show and, should you win, it gets aired. So, a host of one of the contest’s entries takes his crew into a creepy old building—reportedly a 15th century plague hospital—with caverns under it. The supernatural forces inside are more authentic than at …
Read More »Film Review: Monster Hunt (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In an ancient world where monsters rule the land while humans keep to their own kingdom, a baby monster, Wuba, is born to a human father and monster queen. When mortals and creatures alike set out to capture the newborn, Wuba’s adventure begins. The cute baby monster Huba is the child of a human man and …
Read More »Film Review: Killjoy (2000)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three youngsters encounter an evil clown. REVIEW: The ghetto gets a horror icon… Well, that wasn’t my “first” thought when I used to see this film glaring back from the rental shelves. Scary clowns are usually a win-win with the number of phobic clown viewers in the world. I’m guessing though that with that being said, …
Read More »Film Review: Terror Nation (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a criminal gang botch a heist they find themselves drawn into a terrifying government conspiracy to cull the population.
Read More »Film Review: Secret Things (2002)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two women, after losing their jobs at a high-end strip club, are determined to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles. The CEO, an unabashed womanizer who delights in the torment of women, is the only person standing in their way. REVIEW: It doesn’t take a whole lot to get me to enjoy a French …
Read More »Film Review: Fist of Jesus (short film) (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jesus is always willing to lend a hand to those in need, but there are others … that will taste his fist. REVIEW: Just when you thought you’ve seen it all…. how about Jesus fudging a resurrection and raising the dead in the form of zombies? Well, this outrageous short film by David Muñoz is just …
Read More »Film Review: Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vindictive and seductive teacher, a spinster and her sexy sister, and a lonely woman unable to cut the umbilical cord from her mother all appear in three separate stories from one of America’s preeminent writers, Richard Matheson, one of the greatest writers of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.
Read More »Film Review: Dreamkatcher (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In order to stop his bad dreams a young boy steals a dreamcatcher from a mysterious neighbor forcing his family to rescue him from a nightmarish entity. REVIEW: Violence against children can be a bitter pill to swallow for some in films. Even in horror, a flash of brutality towards a young innocent can uncork a …
Read More »Film Review: Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things dies, he leaves it all to his nephew and his family. All including his house, his fortune, and his malicious collection of ghosts! REVIEW: Easily one of my all time favorites, “Thir13en Ghosts” may not be for everyone, but it surely has its share of interesting …
Read More »Film Review: A Dark Encounter (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 8 y.o. Maisie went missing in 1982 and a memorial is held a year later. That evening, strange lights, sounds etc. are observed in the woods outside. Aliens. REVIEW: A posse of sorts sets out in this film to find the missing young girl. On their trek, we see light tricks and themes akin to those …
Read More »Film Review: Stillwater (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A weekend camping trip among six old friends in Northern Minnesota’s “Boundary Waters” turns tragic after one dies under mysterious circumstances, triggering further turmoil as they attempt to unmask the killer within their own group. REVIEW: What do you get when you mix a bunch of mates who have a weird fetish for mottos, drugs, PTSD …
Read More »Film Review: Death Machine (1994)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A crazed weapons designer unleashes his homicidal robotic creation, “The War Beast”, on a group of people after he is fired from his job. REVIEW: In general I am not really into science fiction movies, so I went into Death Machine with less than stellar expectations. I remember seeing it at the video store back in …
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