Film Reviews

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub. REVIEW: Before I start this review, I feel that I need to provide what they call in the business as a “full disclosure.” Herschell Gordon Lewis is one of my filmland …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A father seeks from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son. REVIEW: While The Beasts (Shan Kou) has been marketed as a Hong Kong version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and/or The Hills Have Eyes (1977) it is in fact much closer in feel and structure to the rape-revenge film …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween, but they harbor a dark agenda. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover the plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran, with deadly consequences! Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Writer: Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter (uncredited), Nigel Kneale (uncredited) Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Ralph Strait, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Nick Broomfield’s second documentary on Aileen Carol Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the state of Florida. This second installment includes the filmmaker’s testimony at Wournous’s trial. REVIEW: Directed by: Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill Starring: Nick Broomfield, Jeb Bush, Steve Glazer, Joan Churchill and Eileen Wournos Hell-o, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Once again another video made by Brandon has made its way to the surface. This time however the video doesn’t come alone, it also brings a glimpse into Brandon’s troubled teenage years that led him to become the Amateur P*rn Star Killer REVIEW: Director: Shane Ryan Starring: Shane Ryan and Kai Lanette “No one needs degrees these …