Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger, a young boy is given the tools to take revenge on his adolescent tormentor, and must decide how far he is willing to go to get revenge. REVIEW: Directed and written by Kyle Ensrude, Papa Voodoo opens with Richie (Emmanuel Chukwurah) being beaten up by a bully who …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A deaf girl has the ability to hear a sound people with hearing can not.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man tortures a naked, bound victim while a bored-looking woman watches and occasionally records the proceedings.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The History of Metal and Horror is the documentary that explores the history of heavy metal music and horror, and how the two genres have merged over time. Various metal artists share their first introduction to horror, their favorite horror films, their influences, and more. Horror film icons also discuss how their films have influenced the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Randy Rhoads one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived was taken too soon and his story remains a mystery. We experience the life of Randy Rhoads from his time with Quiet Riot to becoming an icon with Ozzy Osbourne. REVIEW: Being an earlier fan of Ozzy and Randy’s guitar work, it gives me great …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A police S.W.A.T. team investigates about a mysterious VHS tape and discovers a sinister cult that has pre-recorded material which uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. REVIEW: To be honest, I was shocked to find that it has been nearly seven years since the last “V/H/S” installment, “V/H/S: Viral”, hit the market when the newest one landed in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive. REVIEW: Bad movies from the 1970s seem to have a unique, almost magical, air about them. Not the movies that are pure and simply awful – the kind that insult your intelligence and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career. REVIEW: Panic Fest 2022 Exclusive coverage. When the Screaming Starts was written by Conor Boru and Ed Hartland, it was directed by Conor Boru. This would be …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A game of seven minutes in heaven turns deadly when two teens are attacked by a monster in the closet. REVIEW: The Short film blocks at Panic Fest are always great. 7 Minutes in Hell was written and directed Justin Reager and Shane Spiegel. A group of kids sneak into this super old creepy, awesome house. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protestor are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in the 1980’s Chicago. REVIEW: This will be the first film, I’m officially reviewing for Panic Fest 2022, and I’m SO EXCITED. Revealer was directed by Luke Boyce, and written by Luke …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Malin Akerman and Chris Messina star in the twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called “The Aviary”, Jillian (Akerman) and Blair (Lorenzo Izzo) join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can’t shake the feeling that they are being followed …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A worker with an awkward disability nevertheless strives to succeed in his office job. REVIEW: Directed and written by Chris McInroy, Guts is fucking amazing. Horace (Kirk C. Johnson) is known as the “guts” guy in his office. He goes in to see his boss and well, he is trying to get a promotion, and he’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Following the death of their mother, four estranged siblings find themselves fighting for their inheritance and for their lives when an eccentric stranger arrives, claiming their famous haunted childhood home was left to her. REVIEW: Back in the 70s, a young family, wanting their part of the “American Dream”, buy and move into a house off …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. REVIEW: As “Studio 666” begins, Jenna Ortega is crawling across a floor smeared with her own blood as she is stalked by a killer in a Ghostface ma – oh, damn, sorry. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A glowing green orb – which embodies ultimate evil – terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. REVIEW: It really goes without saying how awesome this film is. I had the privilege of viewing this movie in theatres in 1981 when it debuted and now …