Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Following his parents’ separation, a rebellious teenage boy, Ben, is sent to live with his father for the summer and work at the local marina in order to gain some form of discipline. The idyllic tourist town offers little solace for him, however, as he is forced to deal with the local, privileged teens and his …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MR. THUMP, written and directed by Nate Pommering. Our story focuses on a girl (Sophie Beacom) who is home alone while her parents are out of town. She’s supposed to be completing a chore list, but is instead watching tv and not doing much of anything. Pretty typical for …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A hoax busting group goes on a team-building retreat to Whiskey Flats, OR and runs into trouble as they cross paths with an invasive drilling company that is warring with a very private family. REVIEW: Backwoods, crazy inbred family horror movies almost never turn out very good, partly because it’s a genre that’s been done to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. REVIEW: Underwater, directed by William Eubank, concerns Norah Price (played by Kristen Stewart) and a group of engineers as they escape a drilling station in the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The undead are former militia soldiers that are now indestructible snipers. A widow goes looking for the body of her husband but comes across a corpse that wants to end his new unjust life. REVIEW: Beginning with an opening title card reminiscent of a Commodore 64 game, Sniper Corpse tries to hook us in “Latvia”, where …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife. REVIEW: As the old saying goes, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.” Freudian analysis aside, let’s just say that sometimes, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “THE GIANT SCORPION” is an independent science fiction horror short movie, with 3D graphic special effects, about a scorpion that became giant after the fall of a meteor. In other words: “What is better than a beautiful girl that sweetly sleeps under an ’80s issue of “Fangoria” magazine and fights monster with a sharp blade?” :) …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among Kamiura’s gang is Kageyama, his most loyal underling. However, the others in the gang view Kageyama with disdain and ridicule him for his inability …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man attempts to exit an underground car park. Something doesn’t want him to. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have REVERSE, written by Jade Van der Lei & Josh Tanner, directed by Josh Tanner. I’ve always been a bit creeped out by those smart cars,  the ones that are smarter than us. Back up …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The internet watches live, as reality-show contestants struggle against time to see who will stay in solitary confinement the longest and take home the one million dollar prize.

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE WITH MATHEMATICS, directed by Kieran Bentley. So this is a film from the University of Sheffield in the UK, in which a team of mathematicians explains the odds of survival in the undead uprising based on calculations and charts. I’m not sure if it was …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Teenager Isabel Mann is seduced by a violent sect of day-walking vampires. Her classmates start to go missing, attracting two detectives.Things get weird as the disturbed teenager kills at will in the nearby woods. She’s aided by head vampire Alejo, and eerily by Isabel’s lost mother, an earlier recruit. She’s trained in the art of the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel, Twilight follows the saga of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who moves to a small town to live with her father. At school, she meets Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite his cautions, Bella falls in love with Edward, which endangers …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft. REVIEW: Other than the Dracula mythos, Frankenstein and his creation is probably one of the most used/referenced stories since Mary Shelley published the original work in 1818. It has been done on stage, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jennifer, Stefanie, and Joey are making a movie. But soon the lines between what is a movie and what is real begin to disappear. And when making a horror movie, that can be a difference between life and death. REVIEW: One of the gimmicks in Tom Six’s Human Centipede trilogy – outside of sewing mouths to …