Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India, away from their hedonistic and disconnected London lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the Cosmos. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have PENDULUM,  written, directed, and starring Lauren Cooney. This story is science fiction based, which I will admit to my love of sci-fi right now. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: This is the classic tale of misfit high school students taking a prank too far, resulting in the death of a classmate (or at least it seems). After burying him alive and torching him, he lashes out from the grave, only to mysteriously disappear just as quick. They had also filmed their attempt at psuedo-snuff, with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tax collector Ning, a clumsy and easily frightened man, doesn’t have any money and decides to stay overnight in an abandoned temple. Little does he know that the temple is haunted. He meets a very beautiful lady who seduces him, but he doesn’t know that she is a ghost, usually not leaving any man alive… REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: From the makers of “FantastiCozzi”, a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Italian director Ruggero Deodato. REVIEW: Ruggero Deodato directed Cannibal Holocaust, an Italian film released in 1980 that has caused a lot of debate over the years, mostly due to its realism – many thought it was real, and that the actors …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the style of the old Universal Horror films comes The Hound! A scorned man makes a deal with the devil to get revenge REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE HOUND, written and directed by Andrew Jara. I want to say up front that I was so very stoked to see this film. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: This satire of the marriage equality movement is presented with a documentary feel, until an act 2 twist brings in classic horror tropes. REVIEW: Marriage is not often a topic for a horror, even a horror short, and so I was most curious about what to expect from this 6-minute piece. I was pleasantly surprised and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Vivian, a college a social introvert begins to come out of her shell she realizes supernatural forces may be at play. REVIEW: Directed by: Rachel Talalay Starring: Cassie Steele, Jake Croker, Rami Kahlon, Alexis Knapp From the opening credits, The Dorm shows tremendous potential in unnerving a most unsuspecting audience. The imagery is gritty, claustrophobic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two years into the outbreak, the remaining people struggle day to day for survival. With the infected more active at night, three people seek shelter in an empty home, but with supplies scarce, they’ll be lucky to make it out alive. REVIEW: I can go on and on how tiresome the zombie genre has become over …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a sunlight-phobic teen (Junio Valverde) moves to a remote mountain town — coinciding with a series of mass killings — everyone naturally suspects the strange newcomer. But the forest holds a spine-tingling secret that explains everything. Academy Award-winning production designer Pilar Revuelta (Pan’s Labyrinth) applies her artistic eye to this atmospheric Spanish-language horror film that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five friends find an old bunker in the forest. There, they meet a demon that resumes to split them up. Possessed by the Demon attempting to split them up into five parts – making each of them to attempt to take possession of one friend – in order to play them off against each other. Only …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After Kyle, a flunking college student finds a fifteenth century coffin with the ability to create the death experience; he attains a new lease on life. Will Kyle be inspired to get his life in order or will his obsession with the box consume his very existence? REVIEW: Directed By: Mauro Borrelli Starring: Aaron Dean Eisenberg, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Rome is shattered by a series of gruesome murders that paint the Eternal City deep red. The suspicion grows that these atrocious crimes are connected with the return of one of the most heinous serial killers of our time – Karl the Butcher. REVIEW: And now, for a new entry into the “I did not see …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: The Warwick family are unknowingly being filmed for a new reality show. Problem is, they’re boring. So the producer, Mickey Wagner, must add conflict and drama. Their lives begin to unravel with shocking consequences REVIEW: I absolutely HATE the genre of reality television. It celebrates the lowest common factor of our species and makes celebrities of the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kozue and her younger sister are driving through the countryside on the first leg of a camping trip. A minor accident leaves them stranded in the middle of nowhere, out of range of mobile phone service. They are soon found by one of the locals, a polite young man, who escorts them to his home. When …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In a small lakeside town, young women are disappearing without a trace. The superstitious locals blame ”The Lake of Ghosts”, because of the lake’s haunting past, but the town’s mayor seems reluctant, or powerless to take any action. When another woman is found dead near the lake, with her throat ripped out, a reporter comes to …