Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mrs. Oldina must leave her house to buy some eggs. But the world out there is no longer as it used to be. REVIEW: The indie horror scene of Brazil resembles the DIY punk scene in a number of ways. The films are no holds barred, low budget, and in your face. The blood and guts are …
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Film Review: Her Name Was Christa (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lonely man in his 40s looking for companionship pays a prostitute named Christa to pretend to be his girlfriend. It isn’t long though, before they fall in love with each other for real and it looks as though he’s finally going to get everything he ever wanted. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes one night, and she dies, …
Read More »Film Review: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island. REVIEW: It’s kind of sad how much Bela Lugosi’s star had fallen in Hollywood by the 1950s. He was pretty much living in poverty when Ed Wood started to cast him in his films. Lugosi was at a point where he was taking any role …
Read More »Film Review: Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A deactivated female cyborg is revived, but cannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is. REVIEW: A fine movie, Alita: Battle Angel (2019) is not only great science fiction, but also groundbreaking in its contribution to CGI characterization. It was shortly after viewing this in theaters …
Read More »Film Review: Gakidama (1985)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A police officer doubts himself after saving the life of a notorious and ruthless killer. His actions come back to haunt him when the killer and his gang become suspects in a bloody armed robbery. REVIEW: Anyone who knows my taste in horror will know that the 1980’s is quite possibly my favourite era of this …
Read More »Film Review: The Five Element Ninjas (1982)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young martial artist seeks revenge on the Ninja who kills his martial arts brothers and teacher. He finds help in the form of a new teacher (who knows Ninjitsu) and new brothers. Together the four pupils face the Five Element Ninja challenge: Wood, Earth, Gold, Water, and Fire. REVIEW: After having suffered through Bela Lugosi …
Read More »Film Review: Hellboy (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.
Read More »Film Review: Portraits of Andrea Palmer (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Andrea Palmer (Katrina Zova) spends her days working as a cam girl. After having an online breakdown, she receives an unexpected and too-good-to-be-true offer to come to Los Angeles and work full time as an erotic model. Jumping on what seems like a perfect opportunity for financial independence, Andrea immediately travels to LA but no sooner …
Read More »Film Review: Motel Mist (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In just a few hours, at an unusual love motel on the outskirts of Bangkok called Motel Mistress, four (human) lives intertwine and change forever. Sopol, a typical Thai father-like figure with kinky and dangerous sexual fetishes, brings his new young prey, a school girl named Laila, to room number 7, his custom-made erotic chamber. Tul, …
Read More »Film Review: Weird Science (1985)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two high school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, but she turns their lives upside down. REVIEW: “Weird Science“, an 80’s title that brings alot of memories from an era long past. With these eras are a few exceptional film releases that capture those times perfect. 1985, right smack in the …
Read More »Film Review: Quatermass 2 (1957)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for Moon colonization, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar – meteorites crashing down. Following them to the place where they should be landing he finds a destroyed village, a mysterious factory too close to his designs for the Moon colony for comfort, …
Read More »Film Review: Quatermass And The Pit (1967)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded German bomb from World War II. Missile expert Colonel Breen is brought in to investigate, accompanied by Professor Bernard Quatermass. When the interior of the ‘missile’ …
Read More »Film Review: A Serious Man (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking REVIEW: Another odd quirky gem from out of the minds of the Cohen brothers, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, A Serious Man (2009) takes a dramatic comical look at …
Read More »Film Review: The Loveless (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona. REVIEW: Up until today, it was highly unlikely that I might ever review (or even see for that matter) 1981’s “The Loveless“, as a film that was generally lost and forgotten with exception of film book mentions. …
Read More »Film Review: Broken Ghost (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl and her family try to escape a school scandal by moving to a remote house that may be haunted. REVIEW: Director: Richard Gray Writers: Abe Pogos (screenplay, story) & Catherine Hill (story) Starring: Autry Haydon-Wilson, Scottie Thompson, Nick Farnell, Devon Bagby, John Teague Broken Ghost (2017) is an independent attempt at a high-brow …
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