SYNOPSIS: A beautiful French female gets her face ruined by some crazy broad who throws acid on her face. Her determined brother is a doctor and promises to restore her beauty and make her look like an attractive girl again. He begins to kidnap young and beautiful females and bringing them to his clinic with the help of his nurse …
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Film Review: Mutation Annihilation (2007)
SYNOPSIS: The two sequels to Timo Rose’s Mutation, condensed into one feature length horror/sci-fi epic with added digital effects. REVIEW: Stop me if you’ve heard this one: So, Timo Rose is a German movie maker – a writer, director, actor, producer, special effects guy, cinematographer…if it needs to be done to get a movie made, Timo Rose does it. One …
Read More »Film Review: The Curse (1987)
SYNOPSIS: Nathan is a struggling farmer in a small community in Tennessee. When Nathan isn’t worrying about his wife Francis cheating on him or his crop he finds time to deal with Francis’s two children he is raising as his own. Nathan believes in good old fashion Christian values and wants his family to have the same beliefs that he …
Read More »Film Review: Chiral (short film) (2015)
SYNOPSIS: An anxiety-ridden art dealer faces his worst nightmare. REVIEW: Another Canadian short film today, kiddies. Today we have CHIRAL from writer/director Karen Lam. This film won best short subject at Monsters of Film Sweden and was an official selection at Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival. Gallery owner Hank (Nelson Leis) is opening his brand new space. He’s …
Read More »Film Review: Old 37 (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Two demented brothers with an old ambulance pose as paramedics and go on a killing spree in a small town. REVIEW: I went into Old 37 with pretty high expectations. I mean come on, not only do we have a pretty interesting premise, but we also have genre legends Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley playing a pair of insane …
Read More »Film Review: Expressway to Your Skull (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Expressway To Your Skull is the story of Ed and Amy, a thrill-seeking couple in their 20’s desperately searching for a way to fix their strapped existence. With a stash of drugs, backpacks and half-cocked enthusiasm Ed and Amy hit the road… but as they arrive in the woods their idyllic 3-day trip slowly starts to turn into a …
Read More »Film Review: Lullaby (2016)
SYNOPSIS: John and Sarah have it all. A happy marriage, two wonderful children, and a beautiful house in a picturesque neighborhood. They’re truly living the American Dream, until the sun sets over their new home, and an unknown terror steps out of the shadows. Sarah is missing. A mysterious caller has their eyes set on the children. And a neighbor …
Read More »Film Review: Trees (2000)
SYNOPSIS: All’s quiet in the small Vermont town of Hazelville as Memorial Day approaches until a string of mysterious deaths begin plaguing forest ranger Mark Cody. As hikers and campers turn up dead, Cody struggles to figure out what’s behind the murders while the Mayor looks to keep the deaths hush-hush, afraid it will affect tourism on the town’s biggest …
Read More »Film Review: The Gate II: Trespassers (1990)
SYNOPSIS: Four teens summon forth a diminuitive, demonic minion from The Other Side to do their bidding and grant their wishes, but of course, they must all ultimately pay the price… REVIEW: The Gate II: Trespassers is the 1990 sequel to the 1987 movie The Gate, which starred a young Stephen Dorff. This movie follows up with the best friend …
Read More »Film Review: High School Exorcism (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Several teenage girls hear voices as a group of well-meaning Jesus lovers take it upon themselves to “help” a friend whose mood swings appear to be more sinister than they would like. REVIEW: What is it about teenagers, house parties and plastic red drinking cups? Is it a rite of passage? Is it just that red cups are the …
Read More »Film Review: All Hallows Eve 2 (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A woman watches a video tape left at her doorstep by a mysterious masked man that contains a number of horrifying short movies. Unfortunately for her the terror doesn’t end when the tape does. REVIEW: I love horror anthologies (I actually co-wrote one last year called Volumes of Blood. I know, I know, cheap plug but do me a …
Read More »Actress Deanna Russo set to star in Megan Freels Johnston’s The Ice Cream Truck
Megan Freels Johnston’s new psychological horror, The Ice Cream Truck is set to shoot in Spring of 2016. The screenplay for the film is already gaining traction as a semi-finalist in the Circus Road Screenplay Competition. Hilary Barraford and Johnston will serve as producers of the film while many of Johnston’s creative team from Rebound are already in place. Mary’s husband …
Read More »Film Review: F/X 2 (1991)
SYNOPSIS: A former movie special effects man turned prototype toy creator finds himself caught up in the very life he thought he life behind.
Read More »Extreme Cinema: Film’s Darkest Moments for Strong Stomachs and Minds
Extreme Cinema is not entirely a new classification (hence the fairly in-adequate wiki listing) but one that was attached to a genre of horror that challenges the limits of what we have been exposed to over the years. With television, cable, and pay TV taking things “much further” in recent years, that gray line has become awful thin. Certainly fans …
Read More »UNCAGED Breaks Free to DVD
RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brings you UNCAGED. Directed by Daniel Robbins (The Friend Zone), the film stars Ben Getz (Grotto), Kyle Kirkpatrick (Stealing Suburbia), Zachary Weiner (The Convenient Job), Garrett Hendricks (The Paragon Cortex), Paulina Singer (The Intern) and Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men). UNCAGED is available on Digital Video and on DVD on Feb. 2, 2016 for an SRP of $27.97. Available on DVD and Digital Video February …
Read More »Interview: Can Evrenol (Baskin)
Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, FrightFest ask the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning …
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