Film Reviews

(First Time Watch Review) – 3.5 out of 5 Stars Re-released nearly 20 years after the Filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi or Joe D’Amato’s passing, comes the truly uncomfortable and disturbing love story known as Beyond the Darkness or Buried Alive or Buio Omega (take your pick) through Severin. Restored and including a wealth of bonus content, this fairy tale Romeo and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sarah misses a desperate call from her stranded sister sets off with friends to find her in the backwoods town of Raven’s Neck, home to a brutal escaped mental patient. REVIEW: The opening credits for Robert Elkins’ PSYCHOPATH set us up well for a horror ride with a jarring surprise of a technique, something a little …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “When a number of hikers are found torn apart in a national park, the police and park rangers alike are left baffled. Slowly their darkest nightmares are revealed as surmounting evidence points to the existence of a terrifying beast, known only in folk-lore. With the rangers trapped in the park, they’re forced to make their escape on …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Loner turns into a girl to lure and kill other girls. REVIEW: Joe Bucowski is creepy stalker who learns how to transform himself into a 17-year-old student. He uses his bizarre ‘super power’ to infiltrate a high school clique, and pick off their female student body one by one in an orgy of violence and cannibalism. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young immigrant woman is working in an old New York restaurant earning money to send back home to her young son, who is living with his grandmother; however, malevolent forces are making her job much harder. REVIEW: Directed by Greg Olliver, Devoured opens with us joining the New York police department as they are standing …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being forced to drink a special chemical he created in the science lab (that turned his gentle guinea pig that he used as a test subject into a violent little monster) high school nerd Vernon becomes a  homicidal monster himself and goes on a killing spree, taking out all the people that bullied him. REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have DARK SPECTRE,  written by Bruce Nachsin. There doesn’t seem to be a credit for the director, so perhaps this is a group effort. Two superhumans meet in a dark alley for a battle to the death to determine who will rule the city. Tensions are high as the Dark …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Seven friends find themselves on an isolated farm. Here, they discover an ancient book, which summons demons from the surrounding woods. Now, these friends will have to find a way out of the fields, if they want to survive. REVIEW: I have no particular beef with blonde women.  In fact, I’ve dated one or two in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Nazis set up a secret base on the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018. REVIEW: After watching the trailer for “Iron Sky”, my expectations went through the roof. Just knowing that the film actually existed was enough to make me a bit giddy. The premise alone …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Olga, a young woman with a troubled past, finds the man who killed her parents before her eyes, it’s time for him to get what’s coming to him. REVIEW: Yet another short film, kiddies! This time we have OLGA, a short film from Canada by Olaf Svenson. This film is in French with English subtitles. …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus, reveals to Percy Shelley and Lord Byron that Henry Frankenstein and his Monster did not die. Both lived, and went on to even stranger misadventures than before. As the new story begins, Henry wants nothing more than to settle into a peaceful life with his new bride. But …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A newly divorced woman falls for a younger man who has recently moved in across the street from her, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn. REVIEW: There are bad movies, then there are BAD movies. Rob Cohen’s The Boy Next Door is a miserable failure. The film is destined to elicit roars of laughter …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world. REVIEW: Based on the three volume manga series by Housui Yamazaki, Mail is a supernatural action drama by the director Iwao Takahashi. It follows detective Akiba (Takamasa Suga) who together with his Assistant Mikoto (Chiaki Kuriyama) goes around helping people who find themselves …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of twenty something friends go on an impromptu camping trip to reprise old nostalgia. The clique soon realizes their glory days are far over as an unknown presence lurks nearby. Will the friends pull it together, mending their torn past or will evil prevail rendering them forever in lost woods? REVIEW: Directed By: Nathan …