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 …
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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 …
Read More »Film Review: American Fright Fest (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Blood runs rampant on Halloween night when a small towns’ Fright Fest becomes real inside the walls of a long abandoned asylum. REVIEW: Review: “American Fright Fest” never gives up on itself. We have the director to thank for this I suppose. Whether it should have given up on the cutting room floor is an individual …
Read More »Film Review: Stage Fright (1987)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS:An acting troupe trying their hardest to pull together and mount a controversial musical finds themselves outwitted when a serial killer escapes from a local mental hospital and inspires a change in the musical’s narrative to horrific effect.
Read More »Film Review: Hex (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple’s holiday romance is thrown into chaos as they are afflicted by a malicious force. REVIEW: Hex comes to us from South African director Rudolf Buitendach; set in the idyllic landscape of Cambodia, this 2018 movie opens with Western brothers Ben and Isaac Trepanier chatting on a gorgeous beach while dropping some exposition about how …
Read More »Film Review: Night of the Dribbler (1990)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A guy in a basketball mask starts knocking off (well, kind of) the players of a crappy college basketball team. REVIEW: Several nights ago my wife was looking through movies on Tubi and asked if I’d ever seen Night of the Dribbler. When I said that I hadn’t she was surprised because apparently it was made …
Read More »Film Review: Aquaslash (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Thrills, Chills and screwball comedy meet tiny bikinis and gory dismemberment in this chlorine and blood drenched murder mystery. REVIEW: Aquaslash is a newly released comedy/slasher movie directed by Renaud Gauthier who had previously directed 2013’s crime/fantasy horror film Discopathe. The film was released per Red Hound Films making it’s original premiere at the Fantasia Film …
Read More »Film Review: Reawakened (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Michele Chadwick’s best friend Sophia accidentally awakens the spirit of a malevolent witch that died centuries ago, Michele has to find a way to save her soul from eternal damnation. REVIEW: Steffani Brass plays Michele, the “lucky” survivor of a camping trip gone awry. As she recounts the events to Detective Henderson (Chantelle Albers), we …
Read More »Film Review: The Dawn (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman goes to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past. REVIEW: “The Dawn” (2020) is a drama, horror, thriller film now available to watch …
Read More »Film Review: Z (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son’s imaginary friend. REVIEW: When a child has an imaginary friend it’s usually cute. They come up with a constant companion to help ease loneliness or to spark their imagination. But what if that friend told them to do bad things? What if they made them obsessive and …
Read More »Film Review: The Rope Curse (Zong xie) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hoping to make a viral video by streaming a mysterious rope ritual, a couple falls into a deadly curse instead that turns their lives upside down. REVIEW: Directed by Shih-Han Liao, The Rope Curse is a predictable ghost horror that goes to all the places you would expect. Nevertheless, it still manages to provide nominally enjoyable …
Read More »Film Review: Villains (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out. REVIEW: Villains is an offbeat horror comedy that I surprisingly enjoyed. Normally I veer away from the horror/com genre. I like my movies to scare me and …
Read More »Film Review: Riki-Oh: the Story of Ricky (aka Lik Wong) (1991) – CAT III
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally ‘through’ the feared ‘gang of four’, and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen. REVIEW: As we open on …
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