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Film Review: Necromancy (1972)

SYNOPSIS: After losing her baby, Laurie and her husband Frank leave New York to start a new life in the small town of Lilith. But despite its bucolic façade, Lilith is no Mayberry. The local populous all practice witchcraft and Mr. Cato, the town’s patriarch has demonic designs on Laurie. REVIEW: I vividly remember a Variety ad from the 1980s …

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Film Review: Kingdom Come (2014)

SYNOPSIS: A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions. REVIEW: *Minor Spoiler Alert* The sins of your past can haunt you in life but in Kingdom Come (2014) sometimes they can come back to kill you. Set in an abandoned building with shadows that cover blood soaked …

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Film Review: In Memorium (2005)

SYNOPSIS: Two months after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Dennis Wade, a struggling filmmaker, decides to document his illness. Still free from symptoms, he and his girlfriend, Lily, sublet a house and install motion-triggered security cameras throughout. Two days later…the cameras capture something unsettling: Noises and movement in empty rooms. The next morning, Dennis’ cancer begins to advance at an …

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Film Review: The House at the End of Time (2013)

SYNOPSIS: Dulce is a mother who has encounters with apparitions in her old house, where it unleashes a terrible prophecy. Thirty years later, turned into an old woman, she returns home to unravel the mystery and tragedy that has tantalized her REVIEW: Director & Writer: Alejandro Hidalgo Stars: Ruddy Rodriguez, Rosmel Bustamante, Adriana Calzadilla, Simona Chirinos The House at the …

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Film Review: Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)

SYNOPSIS: The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel. REVIEW: Dune is a complicated film that arrived in 1984 under the direction of visionary David Lynch. Even under his masterful direction, the film was still regarded as great science fiction that was perhaps too deep for most consumer …

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Film Review: Abandoned Mine (2013)

SYNOPSIS: Five school friends seek adventure on Halloween night in an abandoned, haunted mine, only to find to their horror that the ghostly rumors may be true as they fight for survival. REVIEW: Ask me if you heard this one? 5 friends walk into a haunted mine……… Every time I hear mine or cave mentioned in the context of a …

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Film Review: Near Dark (1987)

SYNOPSIS: A young man reluctantly joins a travelling “family” of evil vampires, when the girl he’d tried to seduce is part of that group. REVIEW: One of the top vampire themed films ever created, “Near Dark” often sits in a class of its own. Far from the traditional aspects, void of romanticism, and even more of a cult film than …

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Film Review: The Pit And The Pendulum (1991)

SYNOPSIS: It is the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria does not like what is going on during the “Auto De Fe”. When she speaks out, she is arrested and accused of being a witch. Torquemada has plans for her! He orders her tortured, and her tongue to be cut out. Her husband attempts to free her… REVIEW: Director – …

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Film Review: Skyquake (2015)

SYNOPSIS: Since 2012 reports of strange sounds coming from the sky have flooded social media, now Adam, a recluse, struggling with his own demons, believes whatever is causing them has followed him home. REVIEW: Director: Sandy Robson Starring: Aidan Kokotilo-Moen, John Prowse, Sandy Robson, Bronwen Smith Skyquake is writer, director, and star, Sandy Robson’s first film. He is primarily a …

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Film Review: Bedeviled (2016)

SYNOPSIS: Five friends are terrorized by a supernatural entity after downloading a mysterious app. REVIEW: I sighed a lot while watching ‘Bedeviled’. I wasn’t star-struck, love-struck or any other struck for that matter….it was just a boring, predictable exercise in fighting to stay awake. Comprised of equal parts ambition and annoyance, its a film that never quite seems to get …

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Film Review: The Bible Belt Slasher Pt. II: The Holy Terror! (2013)

SYNOPSIS: Jason Fry, the homicidal Bible-quoting psycho is back after escaping from a mental institution and this time he’s targeting the friends and family members of the people he slaughtered in the original short film. Can Dr. Landers stop him once and for all before it’s too late or is he destined to become just another one of his victims? …

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Film Review: Observance (2015)

SYNOPSIS: In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has …

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Film Review: New Blood Awakening (2016)

SYNOPSIS: A war is brewing between rival vampire factions and a group of human vampire hunters. The players are all in place, there are casualties on every side, and after everything is said is done who will be left standing and what will this mean to the rest of the world? REVIEW: To be honest I have just never really …

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Film Review: The Treatment (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure …

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Film Review: Separation (2013)

SYNOPSIS: A young couple moves their struggling family to a small town, where a mysterious neighbor becomes a threat to their very existence. REVIEW: ok wow…I really don’t know where to begin on this one. Our story begins with Liz (Sarah Manninen) and Jack (Peter Stebbings) moving into their brand new home with their daughter Angie (Arcadia Kendal, who wins …

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Special Effects Makeup Class at New York University Now Enrolling

If you’re looking for something cool to do this summer while it’s hot outside and you want to see how the amazing horror film special effects are done, or if you want to learn about makeup, look no further than the special effects class being offered at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. The professor, Robert Benevides, spoke …

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