SYNOPSIS: Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during a winter storm. They hope to please the elders and secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back to days of slavery. Their Uncle Melvin welcomes them with open arms, but warns them to respect their family traditions. During the weekend, as each of the cousins mysteriously disappears, they …
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Film Review: Breakdown (1997)
SYNOPSIS: A New England couple on their way out west to start new jobs and a new life find themselves caught up in an extraordinary game of deadly cat-and-mouse. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Lair of the White Worm (1988)
SYNOPSIS: In a remote corner of England’s lavish Peak district, a young archaeologist, Angus Flint, unearths a mysterious skull. When Angus escorts Eve and Mary to “holiday” festivities at Lord James’ castle, the sensuous and snakelike Lady Sylvia Marsh seizes the moment – and the skull. Lady Sylvia brings the skull down into the dank recesses of her gothic mansion …
Read More »Film Review: The Convent (2000)
SYNOPSIS: A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits. REVIEW: It’s 1960 and a Catholic school girl arrives outside the gates of the St Francis boarding school. In one hand, she carries a duffel bag containing a baseball bat and shotgun, and in the other hand, a can of petrol. Wearing shades, …
Read More »Film Review: The Initiation (1984)
SYNOPSIS: Kelly (who has the same disturbing nightmare night after night) decides to join a college sorority. Of course, there is an initiation involved in order to be a member of the sorority and Kelly and her fellow pledges are tasked with breaking into a mall after hours to steal an item. Unfortunately for them, a mysterious killer has trapped …
Read More »Film Review: Eaters (2010)
SYNOPSIS: The world – devastated by the Great Epidemic – is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men – Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno – try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new “guinea-pigs” for Gyno …
Read More »Film Review: Caleb’s Door (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Plagued by nightmares of a cloaked figure who wants to do him harm, ex-Marine Caleb returns to his hometown in hopes of figuring out the source of his mental unrest. But instead of finding answers, he’s left with a new set of disturbing questions. Why is the parish priest Caleb’s always looked to for guidance now struggling with his …
Read More »Film Review: Tusk (2014)
SYNOPSIS: When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an oddball ex-cop to look for him. REVIEW: As I was watching Kevin Smith’s latest film, Tusk, I began to wonder who came onto the Hollywood scene first: Smith or Quentin …
Read More »Film Review: Sphere (1998)
SYNOPSIS: A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years’ worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean. REVIEW: Realistic and believable, the film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s best selling novel Sphere combines acting heavyweights with the intriguing tale and doing it justice. When a spaceship is found sunken beneath years of coral growth buried under one thousand feet …
Read More »Film Review: Harpoon Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (2009)
SYNOPSIS: An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control. REVIEW: Well, I did have high hopes for this one, but in the end it’s a case of same story different …
Read More »Film Review: Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
SYNOPSIS: An American named Anthony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo REVIEW: An assault on your senses… this was the first and presiding thought that came over me as I dug into …
Read More »Film Review: Grace the Possession (2014)
SYNOPSIS: As Grace heads off to college and experiences a lifestyle far different than the one she had brought up under her grandmother’s strict hand, she begins a traumatic downward spiral that threatens her sanity. The more she explores the true nature of her nightmares and black outs, the more it becomes clear that an outside, supernatural force is responsible. …
Read More »Film Review: Deadly Intruder (1988)
SYNOPSIS: A woman is terrorized by a homicidal maniac who recently escaped from a mental hospital. REVIEW: I vaguely remember my mom and dad renting Deadly Intruder from our local video store one summer back in the 80’s but I didn’t really pay much attention to it as I was too involved with playing with the new G.I. Joe toys …
Read More »Film Review: Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Everyone’s favorite mad scientist Herbert West is currently in jail after having state’s evidence turned against him by his former assistant, Dan Cain. While being led away, some re-agent falls from his pocket where it is picked up by a young man that was camping nearby. The young man find Herbert down in his jail cell and learns for …
Read More »Film Review: Direct your own Damn Movie (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Studio? You don’t need no stinkin’ studio! Or at least that’s the gist of Troma Entertainment president Lloyd Kaufman’s message in this how-to series that includes interviews with directors such as Dario Argento, Stan Lee, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Over the course of the program, you’ll learn the ins and outs of writing a script, mastering the preproduction …
Read More »Film Review: Mara (2012)
SYNOPSIS: In the dark woods of Sweden, five young people are all alone in an old isolated summer cottage. What should have been a nice relaxing weekend soon becomes a living nightmare, as the party is haunted by something evil from the past. REVIEW: Mara is a little Swedish film that can really play on your psychosis, trying to make …
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