Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Abby, a wholesome young woman becomes possessed by the Nigerian god, Eshu. REVIEW: ABBY is a forgotten blaxploitation gem from the golden age of American International Pictures. Upon its release, it had been remarkably successful, grossing millions (its budget had been under $500,000). But, shortly after its initial run, American International got sued by Warner Bros. …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning. REVIEW: At the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On the anniversary of her husband’s murder at the hands of his mistress, a heartbroken widow, overcome by grief and loneliness succumbs to the dark forces around her. REVIEW: Those last moments before death can sometimes be the most eye opening of all. Our short (which has one of the most annoying titles) turns out to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters, but not for his awkward sister Jordan who is transformed into a werewolf after being contaminated with lycan infected blood. REVIEW: If you’re looking for a family friendly comedy/horror that’s perfect for a Sunday afternoon with …

SYNOPSIS: Haruka is new at her school and is in turn bullied and harassed by the students with one exception. Haruka’s only friend is Mitsuru who makes attending class and life more tolerable. Things go from bad to disaster when Haruka’s house burns to the ground resulting in the death of her parents and injury to her sister. Haruka is …

SYNOPSIS: A girl is transferred to a mysterious boarding school, where she is forced to discover its secrets to survive. REVIEW:            The Silenced, or more accurately translated Gyeongseong School: The Lost Girls, is a 2015 Korean mystery thriller by the director Hae-Young Lee. Neither the original title or it’s completely unrelated English rendition really give much of a hint …

SYNOPSIS: A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. REVIEW: In troubled times and when people are scared and looking for comfort they often think of famous quotes like, “There’s no place like home” or “home is where you make it.” But what if you couldn’t leave home? What …

SYNOPSIS: “In MON MON MON MONSTERS, a group of classmates doing community service discover two flesh-eating creatures hiding in an old building. One of the creatures is able to escape, but they capture the other one, torturing her while trying to learn what she really is. It soon becomes clear that the first creature’s escape has dire consequences, as she hunts them …

SYNOPSIS: Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut, is a horror anthology that compiles stories from Danzig’s line of comic books of the same name. Stories which focus on horror content that’s often sexual and violent in nature, usually featuring scantily-clad female protagonists. REVIEW: “The worst film ever made” might be considered as somewhat of a compliment for Glenn Danzig’s horror anthology film …

SYNOPSIS: Copious amounts of blood characterize two Tokyo detectives’ hunt for a serial killer. REVIEW: Monster Killer, also known as Red Tears, is a 2011 action horror by the director Takanori Tsujimoto. It’s a cheap low budget romp that offers a decent amount of gore but very little plot and is likely to leave the viewer ever so slightly disappointed. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A high school student with amnesia tries to uncover what has happened to her. All leading her into deeper troubles ultimately revealing a darkness she could not have imagined. REVIEW: From the writer/director Park Hoon-jung comes another ultra-violent offering, this time with a slight sci-fi twist. If the name rings some bells, you might be familiar …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life when a small, fetus-like creature murders her crew. REVIEW: Evil Dead Trap is a film perhaps best known to most horror fans because of its …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Alien invasion sees mankind mutated into monstrous slaves and women rounded up for alien hybrid breeding experiments. A few brave women find the strength to fight back. REVIEW: I had never heard of this particular movie until it was assigned to me, and I was surprised that it didn’t even have an entry in IMDB. I …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the popular manga by Uziga Waita, MAI-CHAN S DAILY LIFE is a diabolical dark comedy that takes fetish violence to shocking new extremes. A young woman, Miyako (Akane Miyako) responds to an advertisement for a live-in maid, and is given a job alongside the playfully alluring Mai-chan (Koshi Ann). Miyako quickly learns that housecleaning …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Seven years after the tragic death of her brother Donnie, Samantha Darko is still mourning him and the loss of the loving family that fell apart after he died. Her home life in shambles, 18-year-old Sam impulsively decides to join her rebellious best friend Corey on a cross-country drive from Virginia to California in the hope …