Film Reviews

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Karen Spages is murdered on the day of her first Holy Communion and all eyes point to her older and jealous sister, Alice, who wants a Communion of her own but is ineligible since she was born out of wedlock. As the body count starts to mount, Alice becomes the prime suspect.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the centuries old poem, a family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider. REVIEW: Have I expressed my dislike of spiders before? I really don’t like them. Not phobic, but I don’t trust them to just walk away and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Robert Scott Carey and his beloved wife Louise Carey are spending vacation on the motor boat of his brother Charlie. When Louise goes to the galley to bring a beer to Robert, he is engulfed by a weird mist. Six months later, Robert is sprayed by insecticide and when he goes to the doctor for the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: It’s a ride you’ll never forget…really. REVIEW: If a fat guy takes a sh*t in the woods does he wipe his ass? This movie wins points for the most excrement I have seen in a long time. The puke per minute quota is off the charts. So it starts off with a couple trying to make …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country …