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Film Review: The Cleansing (short film) (2011)

SYNOPSIS: A new mother suffers from post partum depression. REVIEW: This short film manages to be unsettling in a way that is not easily accomplished. It is built up slowly (despite lasting only around seven minutes) and is very subtly done. There’s that wonderful sense of eeriness from beginning to end, which I thought worked a treat. The horror here …

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Film Review: Forbidden Planet (1956)

SYNOPSIS: “An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some seventeen light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair IV. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the …

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Film Review: The Werewolf Versus Vampire Woman (1970)

SYNOPSIS: “Elvira is traveling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she …

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Film Review: R.O.T.O.R (1987)

SYNOPSIS: Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage REVIEW: is a science fiction movie that seems to rely on the ideas of movies that came before it. It is one part Robocop and one part Terminator and only entertaining to those people who are …

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Film Review: Play Hooky (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Seniors play hooky from high school and get trapped in an abandoned Psychiatric Facility famous for hauntings, witchcraft and demonic possession. REVIEW: Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A group of mildly attractive teens ditches class to drink some booze and smoke a bit of the wacky weed. Their party pad plans fall through, and the remaining option …

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Film Review: The Echo Game (2009)

SYNOPSIS: A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl’s psychic powers for herself. REVIEW: I’ve always been a fan of psychics in horror films. Or at least some sort of ability. Three films come to mind when I think about it. Two are from the mind of Stephen King …

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Interview; Brandon Graham (Flesh Blanket)

A filmmaker trying to recreate a legendary comedy event… A movement of free speech being reenacted by a group of filmmakers and comedians… One 500 pound comedian whose demons will create nightmares and makes us voyeurs to terror… A film buried by Amazon VOD… This is the found footage nightmare known as “Flesh Blanket.” Thank you Brandon for taking the …

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Film Review: Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)

SYNOPSIS: In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life. REVIEW: Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: Calling this movie “The …

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Film Review: A Trip To Mars (1918)

SYNOPSIS: “The film tells of the eagerness and hardships of the sea captain Herr Avanti Planetaros, now reconverted into a space captain, and his project of a trip to Mars. Before embarking on his particular space odyssey, Captain Planetaros will have to bear the incredulity and the scorn of many conservative astronomers, especially Professor Dubius. In spite of such indifference …

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Film Review: Dolorosa (short film) (2009)

SYNOPSIS: Between these walls, time seems to have stopped. Days, weeks, months maybe, the Young woman doesn’t know for how long she has been trapped in there. Alone and desperate, with no one but this gloved hand that brings her food each day and caresses her sometimes at night…her last link with the world of the living. And the demons …

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Film Review: Out of the Body (1989)

SYNOPSIS: Some gravity-defying being is killing women in Sydney, Australia, and removing their eyes. The only hope of catching the fiend lies in a hapless man with a psychic link to the killer, who is soon suspected of the crimes. REVIEW: Director – Brian Trenchard-Smith Starring – Mark Hembrow, Tessa Humphries, Linda Newton From the land down under comes Out …

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Film Review: The Wicker Man (2006)

SYNOPSIS: A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there’s a larger mystery to solve among the island’s secretive, neo-pagan community. REVIEW: In the remake of the 1973 classic, The Wicker Man is the story of Edward Malus (Nicholas Cage), a police officer from California suffering from PTSD after witnessing a mother and child …

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Film Review: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

SYNOPSIS: A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them. REVIEW: Throughout the 80’s and well into the 90’s the production team of Menahem Golan & Yoram Globus were quite familiar to genre fans worldwide. Their company, The Cannon Group, was responsible for quite a few horror/sci-fi/fantasy/action films during this period. They even …

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