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Film Review: Born of Earth (2008)

SYNOPSIS: Over centuries humans have been mysteriously disappearing with no explanations, just hushed whispers in the dark. On the surface Prophet Hills seems like a perfect place to live and raise a family, but Danny Kessler (Baldwin) has seen better days. This is one man’s journey to find the culprit of the ultimate sacrifice he’s endured. He must face his …

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Film Review: 200 Degrees (2017)

SYNOPSIS: Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is sent challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise. REVIEW: I’m not a particular fan of the 2004 movie Saw (technically well made but relentlessly cold and nihilistic) and I find distinctly risible the …

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Film Review: Tsunambee (2015)

SYNOPSIS: After atmospheric catastrophes send Los Angeles into chaos, three groups of survivors who escaped the city must put aside their differences to face a series of apocalyptic events. As they learn to work together they are faced with an even greater nightmare, giant gravity swells that contain thousands of giant killer bees, intent on ushering in the end of …

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Film Review: Fantasm (2013)

SYNOPSIS: At 15 years old, Kyle Kuchta went to his first horror convention. Years later, he visits multiple cons to understand why these gatherings are so important to horror fans, vendors and celebrity guests. REVIEW: All documentaries have a purpose, whether it be exposing human rights atrocities, discussing gun laws or showing famous cyclists to be the drug cheats they …

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Film Review: My Soul to Take (2010)

SYNOPSIS: A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest. REVIEW: I must apologize to all of you my acolytes for not getting this information to you earlier. Mind you The Black Saint apologizes to no man but after watching Wes Craven’s “My Soul …

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Film Review: Steve Niles Remains (2011)

  SYNOPSIS: The story centers on two lone survivors of a bizarre accident that reduced most of the world’s population to zombies. They take refuge in a vacant casino and fight a losing battle against the undead. REVIEW: Based on the popular IDW 5 issue graphic comic series titled “Remains”, arrives a new zombie thriller from the mind of Steve …

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Film Review: Carriers (2009)

SYNOPSIS: Four kids are driving through the desert on the way to the beach, their faces anything but cheery: this isn’t Spring Break. They’re trying to outrun the end of the world and each other. In Alex and David Pastor’s CARRIERS, no one is safe from the viral pandemic threatening to wipe out the human race. Determined to elude the …

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Film Review: Horrors Of Spider Island (1960)

SYNOPSIS: “En route to a show in Singapore, a troupe of beautiful dancers are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster with three fangs and a passion for strangling.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: …

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Film Review: Home Movie (2008)

  SYNOPSIS:  In the woods of upstate New York live the Poe family. They have a seemingly idyllic lifestyle but all is not what it seems. As the father slowly begins to realize as he documents the family’s day to day life on home video, his children aren’t as perfect as he thinks them to be. In fact, they are …

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Film Review: Spider Baby (1968)

SYNOPSIS: “In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of ten-or-so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Trouble comes when greedy distant relatives and their lawyer …

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Film Review: Varsity Blood (2014)

SYNOPSIS: A pack of small town jocks and cheerleaders with a dark secret head out to a remote farmhouse for a raucous Halloween pasture party, only to find themselves up for slaughter by someone dressed as their high school mascot, an Indian warrior wielding a lethal fighting ax and a bow and arrow.

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Film Review: Demon Seed (1977)

SYNOPSIS: “Scientist Alex Harris, doing research on artificial intelligence, is working on a special kind of computer. This computer grows more and more powerful and eventually rapes the scientist’s wife, Susan Harris.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977) was really high fantasy, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) was more concerned with spirituality, but …

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Film Review: Deathtrap (1982)

SYNOPSIS: A playwright that is desperate to come up with his next big hit decides to kill one of his students and steal his idea for a play that he wrote. REVIEW: I saw Deathtrap one Sunday afternoon on cable when I was a kid and just really couldn’t get into it. It didn’t have enough gory death scenes in …

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Film Review: Zombie Ed (2011)

SYNOPSIS: Loser Ed has a lame job, a crappy apartment and no hope of a girlfriend. None of this mattered to Ed until he woke up one morning to find he had “gone zombie”. Being a human loser is bad, but is being a Zombie worse? How does Ed become the Zombie he was always meant to be? REVIEW: Just …

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Film Review: Blade Trinity (2004)

SYNOPSIS: Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula. REVIEW: It’s almost cruel to compare Blade Trinity to the rest of the trilogy, but I wouldn’t have to if it did enough to stand on its own. Sadly, its failings are even more pronounced next to …

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Film Review: Stomping Ground (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Ben & Annie are a young couple on a weekend trip to Annie’s small North Carolina hometown who, after meeting a charming old friend, embark on an impromptu ‘Bigfoot hunt’ that threatens both their relationship and their lives.

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