Film Reviews

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders. REVIEW: ok so right from the jump I have to say AWESOME!! A little bit ID4, a little bit War of the Worlds,and a little bit …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: In London, after investigating crack addicted junkies for an article in her newspaper, the journalist Amy Klein watches a bizarre videotape. Her editor Charles Richmond received the footage of an underground group of youngsters in Bucharest apparently becoming zombies through the power of their leader Winter from a member, Marla, and invites Amy to prepare the story. …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A teenage girl is terrorized when she spends two nights alone on a remote island as part of her camp counselor initiation. REVIEW: The quickest way to see an indie film from the start to completion is to scale it all back. By keeping things small, a filmmaker (though it’s still a challenge) is able to keep …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Unspeakable evil stalks the hallways of Rogers High School. As fear runs rampant, a family of investigators tries to identify a deadly power that’s claiming students one by one. Nate and Sarah Springfield and their two teenage children go undercover to root out the evil, but will their own resourcefulness protect them from harm … and …