SYNOPSIS: Francisca (Kika Magalhaes) has been unfazed by death from an early age because her mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, imbued her with a thorough understanding of the human anatomy. When tragedy shatters her family’s idyllic life in the countryside, her deep trauma gradually awakens some unique curiosities. As she grows up, her desire to connect with the world …
Read More »Film Review: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
SYNOPSIS: The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don’t seem to be over. REVIEW: Picking up right where the last one left off, the Freeling family have moved in with grandma seeing that their house was sucked into the earth and seems to be missing now (it could happen…). This may be an issue …
Read More »Film Review: Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
SYNOPSIS: This cheap Mexican horror film is a remake of Cardona’s Doctor of Doom (1962), spiced with nudity, medical footage, women wrestling, and cheap gore shots. Female masked wrestler Lucy (who looks like the devil) beats the stuffing out of an opponent – a wrestling lady with a red costume like Catwoman. Lucy finally hurls her opponent from the squared …
Read More »Film Review: The House on Straw Hill (1976)
SYNOPSIS: A struggling writer moves out to the country to work on his second novel and decides to hire a secretary to help him type it out. Unfortunately it isn’t long before the people around him start dropping like flies and he realizes that he may be next. REVIEW: I wasn’t that familiar with The House on Straw Hill (aka …
Read More »Film Review: Split (2016)
SYNOPSIS: After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 distinct personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away and staying alive from the others. REVIEW: Director: M Night Shyamalan Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Betty Buckley It’s pretty hard to overstate how hot M. Night Shyamalan was …
Read More »Film Review: Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
SYNOPSIS: Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.
Read More »Film Review: The Remains (2016)
SYNOPSIS: After a family moves into an old Victorian home, they discover a chest in the attic containing antiques tainted by a malevolent spirit. As the antiques slowly possess each family member, the spirit grows stronger, hellbent on kidnapping the children. REVIEW: I don’t understand the way people in haunted house movies behave. Can they not google the history of …
Read More »Film Review: Live Evil (aka Grave Walkers) (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Supernatural forces are locked into a college town police force’s basement jail. The sheriff and his deputies are subjected to psychic attacks, preying on the fears of the loyal officers and only those with the strongest wills can survive. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Cannibal Diner (2012)
Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family. REVIEW: To say that Cannibal Diner is like a German-made Wrong Turn is not entirely accurate, but it does start the conversation off on the right foot. It could also be compared to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or The Hills Have …
Read More »Film Review: Demonwarp (1988)
SYNOPSIS: A young man brings four friends to a remote cabin for an idyllic weekend. But the trip is a ruse; secretly he’s come to track down a mysterious Bigfoot like creature he blames for his uncle’s disappearance. His suspicions were correct and within hours the group is fighting for their lives against the murderous beast. REVIEW: 1988 was a …
Read More »Plagiarism in Hollywood Films – The Invasion of the Screenplay Snatchers – Part 2
ALIEN (1979) – Genre buffs are probably aware that this classic shares its concept with Edward Cahn’s 1958 monster on a space ship funfest It! The Terror From Beyond Space. But that similarity could be chalked up to its core idea being a science fiction trope rather than plagiarism. But viewers weaned on late night television also noticed that Alien’s …
Read More »Film Review: Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
SYNOPSIS: In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be super-body and super-lover. He thinks he has found just the right brain to go …
Read More »Film Review: Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.
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Read More »Comic Review: Dracula: The Company of Monsters – Issue 1
Issue: Dracula: The Company of Monsters #1 Creator/Story: Kurt Busiek Writer: Daryl Gregory Artist: Scott Godlewski Colors: Stephen Downer Letters: Johnny Lowe Cover Artist: Dan Brereton, Ron Salas Editor: Dafna Pleban Publisher: BOOM! Studios Release Date: August 2010 Pages: 28 Price: $3.99 “He’s back from the dead and starring in a new ongoing horror series from the mind of Kurt …
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