Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Desert Storm vet who was killed in combat rises from the grave on July Fourth, to kill the unpatriotic citizens of his hometown, after some teens burn an American flag over his burial site. REVIEW: “Uncle Sam” (1996) has Sam Harper, a soldier fighting in one of the more recent Gulf War conflicts, found dead due …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a break-in occurs during her first night on the job, the lone night shift janitor must fight to survive when she becomes the target of the masked intruders. REVIEW: It’s the last of the Chattanooga Film Festival, I’m a little sad. It feels like I was just getting prepared and it’s over already. It was …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young female doctor with a 6-year-old daughter is on a night flight caught in a terrible storm. In a half-empty cabin, she faces unexplained deaths of her fellow passengers, loses her grip on reality and relives the worst nightmare from her childhood. REVIEW: “Row 19” (2021) is a Russian film, so if you watch or, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead. REVIEW: Can you imagine being the person who ultimately convinced Sony that, after months of shuffling the release due to the pandemic and other issues, “Morbius” (2022) should be released on April 1st. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In this psychological, horror short, Jake, a young man in his mid-twenties, simultaneously deals with multiple traumatic events. As he navigates these experiences, something has taken root inside of his mind that he may not be able to take control of. REVIEW: Cycles was directed and written by Jakey Lutsko. It stars Jake Cash, Laurie Shaw, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a devastating tragedy, an astronaut struggles to complete his interstellar mission to rescue a lost crew. REVIEW: Directed and written by Spencer Zimmerman, Darkside is one hell of a short film. The Chattanooga Film Festival has become one of my favorite film festivals because of the variety of films. Sam Bowman (Blakely David) had some …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Uncle Bobbo teaches everyone where oil comes from. This is bookended by the history of the natural world, starting with the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. Then continuing with the violation of creation and with the recreation and rebirth of a more perfect humanity. REVIEW: This short was included with the WTF (Watch These Films)- …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends play a supernatural board game that requires them to finish the game by the next morning or they will be stuck playing it in Hell for all of eternity. REVIEW: I thought that Gatlopp sounded like it might be a fun little movie when I first heard about it, and I was …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Seeking Shelter from a storm, a family find themselves trapped for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls in this wildly fun horse-of-horrors thrill ride. REVIEW: Sean King O’Grady directed We Need To Do Something, and Max Booth III wrote it. It’s based on the novella. The film opens …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A nightmarish evening unfolds when neighbors David (Luke Kleintank) and Robert (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) hit a woman on her bike and flee. When her sister arrives searching for the truth, Robert does unspeakable things to protect their secret. The film is a remake of the German thriller Unter Nachbarnwhich marked Rick’s feature film debut. Coming full circle, Rick now revisits his Hitchcockian thriller ten years …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Story centers on a traumatized woman fleeing from her abusive ex-husband with her 7-year-old son. In their new, remote sanctuary they find they have a bigger, more terrifying monster to deal with.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young gymnast who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all. REVIEW: Back in the late 60s and early 70s, the house my family lived in had a big picture window in the dining room that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind. REVIEW: Have you heard of “Firestarter”? The movies and/or the Stephen King novel, not the song from The Prodigy, though that is a killer track. If you answer, “No, and why are you in my house?”, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Field technician, Lillian Romero, is sent out to diagnose an error from her company’s home assistant device L.U.N.A. When she arrives, she discovers this is no ordinary error… or home. REVIEW: Directed by Blake Vaz and written by Roman Arabia, and Mike Bane. L.U.N.A. opens with an awesome house. I do love a great location. No …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A reported monster is terrorizing a local community, but the police have no leads. A man who is fed up with the killings calls a handful of his friends and forms a posse to look for the creature. They head to Bronson Canyon to see if they can uncover who’s behind all of these deaths. REVIEW: …