Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Haley finds herself waking up in strange places with no recollection of how she got there. Unbeknownst to her, she is living another life. One where she dances a lot and fights monsters. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have WRATH OF THE MINITAUR (no that isn’t a typo), written and directed by Sam Gaffin. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Congo is deep in the throes of the post-colonial Simba Rebellion. American mercenary Bruce Curry (Rod Taylor) is ordered to take a train load of Congolese soldiers to an isolated town before its overrun by the rebels. On paper he’s going there to rescue the citizens, but his real mission is to retrieve millions in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Val Kilmer plays Andrey, the head of a group of Moscovites who live in the city’s underground. Vincent Gallo’s character leads a rescue team in search of a Russian anthropologist who’s disappeared beneath the underground system. They discover an eerie multilevel system of caves and catacombs. When his friend, Sergei (Rade Serbedzija), goes missing, Russian priest …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. REVIEW: With Katniss having hung up her bow and arrows in the final Hunger Games film last year, and the Divergent series dying a slow, painful death, could The 5th Wave …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Henry Jekyll’s experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can’t catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind. REVIEW: Director – Gerard Kikoine Starring – Anthony …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Jack, (Furlong) is a screen writer pressured from his agent to produce his next big hit for the anxiously awaiting studios. After numerous extensions and delays his representation makes arrangements to have him locked up in a meat locker within the confines of a remote, abandoned slaughterhouse. He’s picked up in a rustic pickup truck in rural, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends escaping the city for a weekend away have a simple plan, to tour the coast for a relaxing weekend. Things hit a snag when one of the friends spots a seductive, sultry young woman waving for help off the shore of one of many secluded islands along the coast. Reaching out to …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “It is the future. 1987. Great scientific advances have allowed mankind to achieve that which previously only existed in speculative fiction — space travel. But, on the eve of humanity’s first manned mission to the red planet, no amount of speculation could adequately prepare us for the unexpected discovery of…CAVE WOMEN ON MARS!” REVIEW: This week’s desperate …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction. REVIEW: The Untamed (or La Region Salvaje, which translates literally to The Wild Region) is a sci-fi/horror film coming …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: John awakens from a coma to discover his wife and daughter were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible: Luc Deveraux. While John tries to piece his reality back together, things get more complicated when he is pursued by a relentless UniSol named Magnus. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Held hostage in an isolated house, three kidnapped women attempt to escape from their sadistic captors. REVIEW:  Written and directed by Stephen Gaffney (Bully [2015, not the Larry Clark film], Class A) and co-written by Erica Keegan (co-writer along with Gaffney of the upcoming The Profession of Violence), 2017’s Red Room combines a familiar title with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled young woman buys a doll from a sinister street vendor and discovers that the doll has the supernatural power to solve all of her problems—or so she thinks. REVIEW: The Doll (2015).  Directed by B. Tsogt-Erdene; starring N. Munkhsoyol, M. Sarantsetseg, and U. Munguntulga; distributed by Midnight Pulp. Talk about obscure! This movie doesn’t …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Thanatomorphose is an hellenic word meaning the visible signs of an organism’s decomposition caused by death. One day, a young and beautiful girl a wakes up and finds her flesh rotting.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: It’s Alive is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name except that beyond the killer baby motif absolutely nothing is the same as the original. Directed by Josef Rusnak (The Thirteenth Floor) and written by Larry Cohen (Q, It’s Alive III, Phonebooth), Paul Sopocy (new Thundercats?!) and James Portolese (JCVD’s Until Death) this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it. REVIEW: Every town has their fair share of legends and mythology. There are ghost …