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Film Review: Fantom Kiler (1998)

SYNOPSIS: Fantasy and reality become blurred as a misogynistic, masked killer ritually stalks and kills beautiful women who he has encountered previously. REVIEW: To take a look at the cover art and movie poster of Roman Nowicki’s 1998 release and debut film, Fantom Kiler, one might think it looks more like a P*rno than a horror movie. One who thought …

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Film Review: Cure (1997)

SYNOPSIS: A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere. An …

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Film Review: Vampire Academy (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigo

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Film Review: Brain Dead (2007)

SYNOPSIS: The story of six people caught in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep. REVIEW: Written by: Dale Gelineau Directed by: Kevin Tenney Starring: Joshua Benton, Sarah Grant Brendecke, Michelle Tomlinson, David Crane An asteroid tears through space looking for …

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

SYNOPSIS: A priest is scratched by a piece of amber and begins to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his darker desires, but soon he realizes his powers might be used for good, albeit violent, murderous good. REVIEW: Just take a minute and read this title again – THE VELOCIPASTOR. I cannot rate the amount of …

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Film Review: Desecrated (2015)

SYNOPSIS: A rich heiress and her friends head for a weekend of fun at her isolated ranch house in the middle of no man’s land. They soon find that the caretaker’s dark past, has taken him down a bloody killing spree.

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Film Review: Billy’s Behemoth Blast (short film) (2017)

SYNOPSIS: Baby Billy is in his crib during the infamous Halifax Explosion of 1917. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have an animated short called BILLY’S BEHEMOTH BLAST, written and directed by Josh Owen. So this is another one of those shorts with a really interesting backstory and based on real events.  Specifically,  The Halifax Explosion, a maritime disaster …

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Film Review: Ghost Image (2007)

SYNOPSIS: When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next, or has she slipped off into …

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Film Review: Apollo 18 (2011)

SYNOPSIS: Decades-old found footage from NASA’s abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon. REVIEW:  If you found yourself confused with the footage aspect and adverts, rest assured this film is just fiction. It also is entirely shot in POV found footage style …

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Film Review: Neighbor (2009)

SYNOPSIS: The residents of a sleepy suburban neighborhood have a new neighbor in the form of an attractive, friendly, young woman (America Olivo). Unfortunately she isn’t your typical suburbanite as she is a brutal serial killer who gleefully tortures (and boy, does she torture!) her victims before she kills them. Nice guy Don (Christian Campbell) soon becomes her captive and …

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Film Review: Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)

SYNOPSIS: A medical student searching for his father discovers a deranged scientist on a remote island whose experiments combine humans and animals to produce terrifying creatures in this surreal and horrifying tale. The student soon unearths disturbing facts that link him to some appalling truths. Adapted from stories by horror author Rampo Edogawa and directed by Japanese exploitation auteur Teruo …

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Film Review: Vamps (2012)

SYNOPSIS: Two female vampires in modern-day New York City are faced with daunting romantic possibilities. REVIEW: This is a film which took me off guard a little bit. I’m well aware that vampires are all the rage at the moment, but it was something that I managed to steer relatively clear of. However, this film didn’t seem to be constrained …

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Film Review: The She-Beast (1966)

SYNOPSIS: “A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an eighteenth-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Good to see you, even you who sent the email describing …

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Film Review: Excalibur (1981)

SYNOPSIS: “As the title would suggest, it follows the travels of the legendary sword Excalibur through Arthurian myth, from the violent, powerful hands of Uther Pendragon, to a long-years’ rest in the stone to being redrawn by Uther’s son Arthur, who uses it to defeat the evil invaders and establish the great court of Camelot and the great Knights of …

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Film Review: 9 Days (2013)

SYNOPSIS: Seeking an escape from the sexual abuse of her sleazy foster father, Danielle takes to the highway. Heading for California, she hitches a ride with an eccentric but seemingly harmless young man called Virgil. He manages to talk her into spending the night at his place. This ends up extending into a nine-day ordeal where she is chained up …

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Film Review: Video Geisteskrank (2008)

SYNOPSIS: After watching a series of notorious shock films, our lead falls into the life of murder and mayhem. Slowly but surely his mind is in a world of his own as he keeps a girl in his bathroom to torture. REVIEW: A black and white movie plays on as a young boy sits down to view some “so-called” extreme …

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