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Film Review: 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)

SYNOPSIS: A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end. REVIEW: Recently with the wave of “end of the world concerns” hitting us at every turn, there has also been a pretty strong related interest movement in the film industry. The one that comes to mind that …

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Film Review: VooDoo (2017)

SYNOPSIS: When Dani, an innocent southern girl, vacations to Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life, she learns that escaping her past isn’t as easy as she hoped. REVIEW: The filmmakers behind VooDoo are not good people, and I don’t mean that as a backhanded compliment or to arouse interest. This film is the definition of incompetent. The people …

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Film Review: Amicus Mortis (short film) (2007)

SYNOPSIS: A twisted and bloody tale of revenge shown in reverse chronological order. REVIEW: Low budget horror shorts are hard to do well. It’s very difficult to get the necessary plot crammed into such a small time frame, and when you’re trying to make your film jam-packed with gore as well, it’s practically impossible. Amicus Mortis is definitely lacking on the former, …

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Film Review: The Riverman (2004)

SYNOPSIS: Ted Bundy is interviewed in the hope to lead investigators to apprehend the Green River Killer in Seattle REVIEW: Based on the book “The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer” written by Robert D Keppel and directed by Bill Eagles, this made for TV movie is based on a true story of how investigators …

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Film Review: The Summoning (2017)

SYNOPSIS: When a law student uncovers chilling secrets and places her life at risk, a grieving detective gets assigned to her case. REVIEW: Director: Alberto G. Rodriguez Writer: Alberto G. Rodriguez Starring: Leila Almas, Jaime Zevallos, Manny M. Hernandez, Eric Roberts The Summoning is the story of law student Rachel—played by Leila Almas (American Sharia)—and Detective Silva—played by Jaime Zevallos …

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Film Review: Crawl or Die (2014)

SYNOPSIS: An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns – the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself. REVIEW: Who wants to watch a movie where a scantily …

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Film Review: Book of Life (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears. REVIEW: Book of Life, a supernatural-tinged animated feature from producer Guillermo del Toro and director Jorge Gutierrez, is pure imagination on a stick, colorful, inventive, …

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Film Review: The Occupant (2011)

SYNOPSIS: After the death of his grandmother, New Yorker Danny Hill (Van Hansis) is set to inherit her large rent controlled Manhattan apartment. Taking the advice from his lawyer (Steve Routman) and the creepy, but helpful, door man, Joe (Thorsten Kaye), he must lock himself away in the apartment for 12 days in order to occupy the property in his …

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Film Review: Deathbox (short film) (2015)

SYNOPSIS: lonely, conflicted hobo lives an existence defined by a dark, insatiable need. On this day, he crosses paths with a mysterious man who’s also defined by an all-consuming, singular drive.

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Film Review: Dead Mine (2012)

SYNOPSIS: The legend of Yamashita’s Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in. REVIEW: In recent years there have been many films set in caves, mines and anything …

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Film Review: June (2015)

A childless couple adopt a young girl who has some baggage of the supernatural sort to deal with. Horror films with demonic children in the spotlight are some of the most popular in the genre. I can go back as far as 1956 (although I’m sure there are earlier ones), and find evil children films like The Bad Seed. Other …

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Film Review: The Antichrist (1974)

SYNOPSIS: Ippolita is a young woman paralyzed by a childhood accident and confined to a wheelchair ever since. Struggling with a crisis of religious faith, she consults a psychiatrist who hypnotizes her as part of past life regression therapy. The treatment temporarily cures her paralysis, but also awakens a demon that has haunted the family for generations. The demon possesses …

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Film Review: The Forest (1982)

SYNOPSIS: When two couples go camping they are terrorized by a crazy old bastard that lives in a cave and enjoys killing and eating people. REVIEW: As most of you know by now, I really, really love slasher flicks. I especially love the slasher flicks from the 1980’s as this was the golden age of the slasher film in my …

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Film Review: The Crone (2013)

SYNOPSIS: The Crone is part of a Japanese horror project which also includes Norio Tsuruta’s Talk to the Dead and Koji Shiraishi’s Cult. Ayane, Nanami, and Mayuko are members of a new 3-member idol group called “Jersey Girl”. One day they’re invited to appear on a television show about the paranormal where they’ll visit an abandoned nursing home in the …

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Film Review: Eddie (short film) (2016)

SYNOPSIS: Deep underground, a lone scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to deal with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he’d really rather not have to solve. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have EDDIE, a short film written by John Lynch and John Williams-Nobbs, directed by John Lynch. This is Mr. Lynch’s first fictional …

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