Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old ALICE PALMER drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, RAY …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Videographer Brian McNeil is asked to join Oxford Profressor Joseph Coupland and his group of Quiet Ones, a small group of trusted students who help him investigate the supernatural. Coupland needs Brian to record their experiments involving a young girl, Jane Harper, who is prone to unexplained projections similar to those described as poltergeist activity. Coupland …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is overly protective of his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother’s terrible activities. REVIEW: Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed, or Jokosei: tenshi no harawata, is the first film in a series of nine Angel Guts films, most of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: It is an experimental, unconventional story told almost entirely from the viewpoint of a deeply disturbed, sociopathic serial killer

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife. REVIEW: I have a confession to make. When I sat down to watch this flick, I was not in the best frame of mind. I was in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Uganda’s president gives Captain Alex the mission to defeat the Tiger Maffia, but Alex gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex, hence the title Who Killed Captain Alex. REVIEW: Who Killed Captain Alex? was a couple of firsts for me. I’d never seen a movie with a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Japanese teenager can see ghosts and sees a cute girl fighting an evil monster. He ends up with her reaper power and she as human in his high school class. He discovers a connection between his mom’s death and these monsters REVIEW:    The director Shinsuke Sato is back with yet another live action adaptation of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: With a timeline covering everything from Last House On The Left to the controversial August Underground Trilogy, Beyond Horror brings together conversations with psychologists, fans, and filmmakers to tell the story of some of the most notorious films ever created.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A demonic nun unleashes holy hell when she summons the devil to possess a great white shark. REVIEW: Am I the only person at this point that groans whenever they see yet another killer shark movie? After Jaws, it’s not like there’s a whole lot that can be with this particular sub-genre, not that there haven’t …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers capture a man-eating monster. REVIEW: From the writer-director Giddens Ko comes a pitch-dark horror comedy about monsters of various form. I only call Mon Mon Mon Monsters a comedy because that is the way it has been sold and advertised. Looking at the promo images you get a sense of a possibly …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his six year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A thriller that zeros in on the relationship between a veteran ballet dancer and a rival. REVIEW: To say Black Swaw is open to interpretation, would be an understatement. Though we really shouldn’t expect anything less from visionary director Darren Aronofsky. His films have taken bold steps over his career, though I believe that Black Swan …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “In Vietnam on the 6th October 1971, American soldier Jacob Singer is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in a New York subway while going home late at night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah, lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The “Satans” are a very cruel biker gang led by Anchor. The gang goes to a diner in the middle of nowhere in the California desert where they begin to terrorize Lew and his patrons and his waitress, Tracy. After a little killing, one of the patrons named Johnny manages to escape from the bikers into …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “After conquering the oppressive humans in Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, Caesar must now keep the peace among the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization …