SYNOPSIS: An expecting couple move to a rural mountain villa. Shortly after arriving, they begin experiencing horrific supernatural occurances. REVIEW: Midnight Hair is a Chinese horror thriller by the director Liu Ning. It starts as what seems like a bog standard haunted house movie, but changes pace towards the end morphing into a crime mystery. So, a young couple, A …
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Film Review: Popcorn (1991)
SYNOPSIS: A murderer begins killing off teenagers at a horror movie marathon they have organized in an abandoned theater. REVIEW: Popcorn was a slasher movie that showed up right when the slasher boom had run its course until Scream hit theaters 5 years later. As a result, Popcorn had flown under the radar at the time and until it showed …
Read More »Don’t Get Spooked on this Tour of the Winchester Mystery House!
Join resident Movie Madman, Onyx the Fortuitous, on a spooky tour around the haunted Winchester Mystery House to celebrate the “Winchester” the movie available on BluRay May 1st! Onyx unlocks the secrets of Sarah Winchester’s oddly built home and goes on a ghost hunt of his own in Nerdist Presents, Weird Satanist Guy Gets Haunted.
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Film Review: Clownz (short film) (2014)
SYNOPSIS: When Jay, an editor’s son, is sent on an errand, his worst nightmares start to come true. Through increasingly terrifying events, the son can’t tell whether he’s imagining things or if it’s real. After protecting himself, he drops his guard when he encounters security. He is safely led back, until his fears start to seem real again. REVIEW: More …
Read More »What the Waters Left Behind/New Posters and Trailer
The world premiere of the film was in SITGES on October 11th where the Directors won the “BEST PROMISING DIRECTORS” Award. Other official selections and awards: “BEST FILM” (Obscura Berlín), “SPECIAL MENTION” (Mórbido, Mexico), “BEST DIRECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY” (Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, Argentina), “BEST ACTRESS” (Montevideo Fantástico, Uruguay), BIFFF (Belgium), BIFAN (Korea), ABERTOIR (Wales), NIGHT VISIONS (Finland), MOLINS DE REI …
Read More »Artsploitation Summer Movie Schedule
It’s the unofficial start of summer-time and that means it’s movie watching season. Let’s get ready to spend hordes of money on over-priced popcorn and soft drinks at the local cinema. This is where movie-goers will witness all the over-saturated superhero blockbuster excitement that they can shake a ticket stub at. However, there are alternatives. Artsploitation Films has just released …
Read More »Film Review: Lady Frankenstein (1971)
SYNOPSIS: “When Doctor Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall’s brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall’s life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers …
Read More »Film Review: Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead (2009)
SYNOPSIS: A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals. REVIEW: The freaks are back for another round of kill the intruders. Wrong Turn 3 takes a bit of the original and combines it with 2 stories in 1 kind of premise. …
Read More »Film Review: A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes and Santa finds himself fighting against a horde of possessed elves. REVIEW: It’s that time of the year again! Where the masses are hypnotized …
Read More »Film Review: The Hunt (2010)
SYNOPSIS: Following in the footsteps of recent extreme French horror movies like High Tension, Frontiers, Inside, and Martyrs, The Hunt follows an undercover reporter commissioned to write a story about a series of gruesome murders. His investigation leads him to a secret society of wealthy businessman who hunt humans for money. Caught in a spiral of violence, he is forced …
Read More »Film Review: Final Spawn (aka Dying God) (2008)
SYNOPSIS: His city rocked by a series of vicious murder/rapes, corrupt, alcoholic cop Sean Fallon (James Horan) recruits ruthless local pimp Chance (Lance Henrikson) to help hunt down the person responsible for the deplorable crimes. But the closer they get, the more they both begin to suspect that the killer may not even be human. REVIEW: Ok, there is a …
Read More »Film Review: Saint (Sint) (2010)
SYNOPSIS: A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5. REVIEW: You better watch out, you better not…. Ok, couldn’t resist. Santa Claus is not coming to town but his evil persona Saint Nicholas is. Call it an old saint Nick slasher film or …
Read More »Anthology Horror Films (L-Z)
Anthology films (also known as portmanteau films, omnibuses, compilations or collages) consist of multiple short films usually with a common theme or framing device. This is not to be considered a complete list, but rather a rundown of the best and most interesting collections of short horror tales. Thanks to Wikipedia and the IMDB for assisting research.
Read More »Film Review: Red Hill (2010)
SYNOPSIS: Shane Cooper is a law enforcement officer who has decided that it is time for him and his pregnant wife Alice to leave the city and settle in the small town of Red Hill. During his first day on the job at his new beat Shane quickly learns that Red Hill is hardly the small quiet community that he …
Read More »Film Review: Münchhausen (1943)
SYNOPSIS: “This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from eighteenth-century Braunschweig to Saint Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice and then to the moon, using ingenious special effects and stunning location shooting.” (courtesy IMDB)
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