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Film Review: Shooting the Warwicks (2015)

SYNOPSIS: The Warwick family are unknowingly being filmed for a new reality show. Problem is, they’re boring. So the producer, Mickey Wagner, must add conflict and drama. Their lives begin to unravel with shocking consequences REVIEW: I absolutely HATE the genre of reality television. It celebrates the lowest common factor of our species and makes celebrities of the worst examples …

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Film Review: Camp (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Kozue and her younger sister are driving through the countryside on the first leg of a camping trip. A minor accident leaves them stranded in the middle of nowhere, out of range of mobile phone service. They are soon found by one of the locals, a polite young man, who escorts them to his home. When four other men …

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Film Review: Zombie Lake (1981)

SYNOPSIS: In a small lakeside town, young women are disappearing without a trace. The superstitious locals blame ”The Lake of Ghosts”, because of the lake’s haunting past, but the town’s mayor seems reluctant, or powerless to take any action. When another woman is found dead near the lake, with her throat ripped out, a reporter comes to town and soon …

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Film Review: Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (Tomie: Saishuu-sho – Kindan no kajitsu) (2002)

SYNOPSIS: Tomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family. REVIEW: Tomie: Forbidden Fruit is the fifth installment of the nine-part Tomie series. It’s directed by Shun Nakahara and stars Nozomi Ando as the infamous she devil, both of which do an adequate job in bringing yet another Tomie story come alive …

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Film Review: Monster Trucks (2016)

SYNOPSIS: Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have …

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Film Review: Evil Eye (1975)

SYNOPSIS: The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders… REVIEW: When I say that absolutely nothing makes sense in this movie, I mean it. Absolutely nothing makes sense. Somewhere in all …

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Film Review: Cat Sick Blues (2015)

  SYNOPSIS: When Ted’s beloved cat dies, the trauma triggers a mental breakdown. His broken brain prompts him to bring his feline friend back – all he needs is nine human lives. REVIEW: Before I watched this film, I had hopes that it would be something like that youtube video that went viral last year of the guy wearing the …

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Film Review: The Hamiltons (2006)

SYNOPSIS: Four young adult siblings try to fend for themselves after the mysterious death of their parents. But they harbor some dark secrets which include abducting and killing strangers… REVIEW: Directed by The Butcher Brothers, “The Hamiltons” at first glance reminded me a lot of “An American Family”. Remember that one kiddies? It was basically the first reality show & …

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Film Review: Demon (2013)

SYNOPSIS: FBI Special Agent Nicole Diaz is sent to the town of Oro Negro to solve several bizarre murders. At first, it’s thought the killings are random acts committed by smugglers or drug dealers until the Tribal Ranger realizes the bodies have been drained of blood and suspects it is something more. REVIEW: I would much rather deal with the incompetence of …

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Film Review: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

SYNOPSIS: An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies. REVIEW: Wade Davis, a Harvard-educated anthropologist, traveled to Haiti in the early eighties to research the Vodou religion and its practices.  His specific focus was concentrated on zombies, and the assortment of ingredients utilized in creating the poisonous powder that transforms a …

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Film Review: Dead and Gone (2008)

SYNOPSIS: Forced to live in his late family’s creepy mountainside cabin after losing all his money, Jack Wade (Quentin Jones) struggles to maintain his sanity while caring for his comatose wife (Kathrine Bates). Instead, he descends into a world of paranoia and madness. Based on a script by Emmy-nominated songwriter-author Harry Shannon, filmmaker Yossi Sasson’s indie horror also stars Tenacious …

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Film Review: The Moonlight Man (short film) (2016)

SYNOPSIS: A girl walking alone at night is stalked by a creepy monster called The Moonlight Man in this short horror film. REVIEW: More short films, Kiddies! Today we have THE MOONLIGHT MAN, written and directed by Danny Donahue. Mr. Donahue has a long list of other short films to his credit, many as an actor as well as director. …

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Film Review: Teenagers From Outer Space (1959)

SYNOPSIS: “A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into …

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Film Review: The Vanguard (2008)

SYNOPSIS: Set in the year 2015, this apocalyptic thriller finds rebels Max (Ray Bullock Jr.), Rachael (Emma Choy) and Zac (Steve Weston) caught in the midst of a raging war between the Biosyns — a race of primitive people engineered by scientists — and the all-powerful Corporation. With civilization on the verge of extinction, due to oil depletion, the trio …

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Film Review: Zaat (1971)

SYNOPSIS: A mad scientist transforms himself into an aquatic killer. REVIEW: When I was first alerted about “Zaat“, I will confess, it being the first I’ve ever heard of this title. No mentions in reading, no lost VHS tapes, no late night viewing’s in the after hours, “Zaat” was simply off the radar completely. So of course with it debuting …

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