Film Reviews

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A girl’s life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal. REVIEW: It is not often you see a film that begins with couple of dozen people being cut in half, but with Sian Sono’s surrealist gorefest Tag, that is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Written by Nick Morris (The Evil Eye), Ruckus Skye and Lane Skye (The Devil to Pray, Rattle the Cage) and directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott (Cooties, Bushwick), BECKY stars Lulu Wilson (Annabelle: Creation), Kevin James (Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Hitch, “The Kings of  Queens”), Amanda Brugel (Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”), Robert Maillet (Sherlock Holmes) and Joel McHale (“Community”).  The film …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two women befriend each other, but one becomes obsessed with the other REVIEW: Alex Essoe is always this force of nature in films. Homewrecker was directed by Zach Gayne and written by, Precious Chong, Alex Essoe and Zach Gayne. Precious Chong is Linda and Alex Essoe plays Michelle. Sudsy pink bubble bath, makes you want to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A drug that alters perceptions during trauma and stress, is being advertised as a cure for socio-political tensions. Several couples volunteer for human trials but end up with more than they bargained for. REVIEW: As fans of horror, we’re all fully versed in the traditional tropes of the genre; your werewolves, vampires, zombies, hockey-masked undead loons …