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Film Review: Pigskin (short film) (2015)

SYNOPSIS: A high school cheerleader faces a grisly manifestation of her self-deprecating inner demons. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have PIGSKIN, directed by Jake Hammond and written by jake Hammon and Nicola Newton. This short was made through the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, so I’m going out on a limb to say this is …

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Film Review: Family Game Night (short film) (2015)

SYNOPSIS: A heartbroken office drone is coaxed out of his self-imposed isolation by two bubbly, enthusiastic co-workers. Their proposition: to join them for their renowned “family game night,” where they promise him an evening of fun and a chance to forget his troubles. But something sinister lurks just beneath the surface of these happy-go-lucky lovebirds, and our sad sack is …

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Film Review: Footsteps (2006)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass. REVIEW: If I say the name Gareth Evans, you are no doubt immediately thinking about The Raid: Redemption, or maybe The Raid 2, or maybe that …

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Film Review: Candiland (2016)

SYNOPSIS: Struggling to rebuild their lives, a former tennis star and a recent divorcee decide to isolate themselves from the world in a quest for true “oneness”; as their affair descends into savagery, his father must fight to save them before they disappear completely into madness. REVIEW: Candiland is based on the novel “Candyland” by Elizabeth Engstrom.  I haven’t read  …

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Film Review: Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies (2017)

SYNOPSIS: Lonnie, a crop duster pilot, must lead a mismatched group of survivors to escape the deadly zombie horde after an experimental chemical, intended to control the invasive kudzu vine, transforms the citizens of Charleston, MS into zombies. REVIEW: Zombies. It had to be zombies. Again. Is it possible to beat a dying genre to death if that genre happens …

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Film Review: Desecration (short film) (2012)

SYNOPSIS: On a dark remote road a car is stopped at a military check point. Something isn’t right and the Soldiers find themselves in a situation they could never understand with deadly consequences. REVIEW: Based in Northen Ireland and described as a ‘creative, modern take on an Irish myth’, this short film offers something a little different from your ‘conventional’ …

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Film Review: Paranormal Xperience (2011)

Paranormal Xperience (2011)

SYNOPSIS: In 2011, five Medical students investigated an abandoned mining town in search of paranormal evidence… They found them. REVIEW: Spain has finally jumped on the 3D bandwagon and released their first film in the format. “Paranormal Xperience 3D” comes to us from director Sergi Vizcaino and the producers of “The Orphanage”. It isn’t the finest ghost story I have …

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Film Review: Foxwood (short film) (2017)

SYNOPSIS: A blind date takes a monstrous turn as a couple meets on a cold Christmas night. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have FOXWOOD, written and directed by Trevor Dillon and Ian Hock. This film was an official selection at the Nashville Film Festival, Shriekfest Los Angeles and Orlando, Horrible Imaginings, Idaho Horror, and Sacramento Horror. Internet dating…yea, …

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