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Film Review: The Terror (1963)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: “France in the Eighteenth Century. Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman and asks her for directions to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn’t answer, doesn’t even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes …

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Film Review: Personal Shopper (2016)

SYNOPSIS: Maureen is a young American in Paris making her living as a personal shopper for a celebrity. Also, she may have the psychic ability to communicate with spirits, just like her twin brother, Lewis, who recently passed away. Maureen soon starts receiving mysterious messages coming from an unknown source. REVIEW: Reviled and revered at Cannes (depending on who you …

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Film Review: Hell (2011)

SYNOPSIS: In the not too distant future, people struggle to survive their greatest enemy, the sun. REVIEW: Before you make too many assumptions, Hell is a film about the future when the sun has increased the Earth’s temperature by 10 degrees Celsius. This change has turned much of what the world “was” into an apocalyptic landscape for survival. In fact …

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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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