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Film Review: Throne of Blood (1957)

SYNOPSIS: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider’s Web Castle. REVIEW: “The devil’s path will always lead to doom.” Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Macbeth, is certainly one of the greatest representatives of its cinematic form. Portrayed by the great Toshiro Mifune, Washizu …

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Film Review: Scream Queens Double Feature (2010)

Scream Queens Double Feature: Swimsuit Sensations & Knockout Workout (2010) SYNOPSIS: TAGLINE – Horror Films Most Beautiful Girls On A Sexy Swimsuit Workout! REVIEW: Just when you thought you had everything and looking for something that you couldn’t do without, comes this campy, cheesy gem from the early 1990s. No, there is no real refurbishing here, you get the only …

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TV Review: The Alienist (Season 1) (2018)

SYNOPSIS: “The Alienist” is a limited series based on a Caleb Carr novel of the same name. The story centers around criminal psychologist (once known as an “alienist”) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his work on a horrific case of child prostitute murders in 1896 New York. With companions – newspaper illustrator John Moore, police secretary Sarah Howard and twin detective …

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Film Review: Mark of the Witch (2014)

SYNOPSIS: A beautiful young woman is driven into a dark underworld of demonic possession, desire, and extreme indulgences when she learns she may be the devil’s kin. REVIEW: If there was one thing that could make me squirm in a movie, whether horror or not, it would be pointy things poking through the human body. It doesn’t creep me out …

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Film Review: Blood For Irina (2012)

SYNOPSIS: Irina is dying. She desperately searches for blood during her last days on Earth while living in a run down motel. REVIEW: The film is ostensibly about a vampire who’s at the end of her existence and her final days on Earth. She lives alone in a dilapidated motel, how she ended up here is never disclosed. The motel …

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Film Review: The Barrens (2012)

SYNOPSIS: The Vineyard Family strives to rekindle cohesion and unity by taking a camping trip in the remote New Jersey forest otherwise known as The Barrens. They soon find they have far more to contend with than mere dysfunction as something sinister lurks in the shadows. REVIEW: Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman Starring: Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirschner, Allie MacDonald, Peter …

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Film Review: Cat People (1982)

SYNOPSIS: “Irena Gallier, a beautiful young woman, is on the brink of sexuality. She discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences. However, the tremendous passion of this girl’s first romantic love is so strong, it bypasses the terror around her – including her brother’s extraordinary demands – as it …

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Film Review: 99 Pieces (2007)

SYNOPSIS: When Joshua Licet wakes up with his wife missing he must decide whether to lock himself in his house for forty days and 40 nights of torture or to leave her to die. REVIEW: 99 Pieces is a grim psychological horror film which manages to sustain an excellent sense of foreboding from start to finish. Independent film director, Anthony …

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Film Review: The Last Man On Earth (1964)

SYNOPSIS: “Doctor Robert Morgan is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now – or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims become part of a hellish undead army that’s thirsting for blood – his!” (courtesy IMDB) …

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FilmReview: Brimstone (2008)

SYNOPSIS: Goth chick wannabe Tandra’s friends all kill themselves after visiting a wooded area called Brimstone so she heads there herself to get some answers. Will she be able to solve the mystery behind the death of her friends and live to tell about it or is she destined to follow in their footsteps and take her own life as …

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Film Review: Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

SYNOPSIS: An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman’s body. REVIEW: For those too young to remember, ninjas were incredibly popular during the 1980s to the point that one could say media was oversaturated with them. They were showing up in comic books, toy lines, television shows, and movies. It felt …

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Film Review: Awaken (2015)

SYNOPSIS: A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs. REVIEW: 1924’s The Hounds of Zaroff by Richard Connell is a story perhaps best known as The Most Dangerous Game. It’s the simple tale of a simple aristocrat with a simple desire: to hunt down …

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Film Review: Ivy (short film) (2017)

SYNOPSIS: A man’s struggle to come to grips with his deteriorating mental state stemming from losing the love of his life. REVIEW: Though I’ve yet to witness the unrelenting grip of grief (it lands on each of us at some point, the spin of the bottle not resting in my direction yet), I can grasp at some tangential understanding of …

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Film Review: Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)

SYNOPSIS: BSAA Chris Redfield enlists the help of government agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers from Alexander Institute of Biotechnology to stop a death merchant with a vengeance from spreading a deadly virus in New York. REVIEW: Let’s take the clocks back to the 1990s. This was when Konami still made good games and didn’t treat its employees …

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Film Review: Happy Birthday (2016)

SYNOPSIS: To celebrate his birthday (and to get over the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him) Brady heads to Mexico with his friend Tommy for a fun-filled adventure. Unfortunately after hooking up with a couple of women-who aren’t exactly what they seem to be-Brady’s birthday becomes a living nightmare that he may not survive. REVIEW: I went into Happy …

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