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Film Review: Under the Scares (2010)

Rate this Film  SYNOPSIS: A documentary about independent filmmaking featuring interviews with Lloyd Kaufman, Debbie Rochon, Amy Lynn Best, and several other people involved with independent films. The movie discusses the trials and tribulations of making your own film and offers tips on how to get your movie distributed. REVIEW:  I personally love most documentaries, especially if they are about …

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Film Review: Blood Brothers (2015)

SYNOPSIS: Two brothers, Charles and Thomas, who feel they are of superior intelligence, concoct a deadly game of murder to fulfill their devious fantasies, but doing so derails their relationship with horrifying results. REVIEW: “Blood Brothers”, is a fantastic piece of art, and I do consider it art. Writer and director Jose Prendes takes the audience on a stylized and …

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Film Review: Phantom From Space (1953)

SYNOPSIS: “An alien being with the power of invisibility lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by government authorities.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Some of my more seasoned readers should remember director Billy Wilder as a filmmaker whose incredible career spanned more …

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Film Review: Supernova (2000)

SYNOPSIS: Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew which includes a Captain and Pilot, a co-pilot, a medical officer, a medical technician, a search and rescue paramedic, and a computer technician. When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a …

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Film Review: Transylmania (2009)

SYNOPSIS: Spoof horror in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realize that if the partying doesn’t kill them, the vampires just might! REVIEW:  Directed by David Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand, the creators of “Dorm Daze” and National Lampoon’s “Dorm Daze 2” is a spanking new horror comedy right out of the vampire craze …

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Film Review: The Woods (2006)

SYNOPSIS: Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents. REVIEW: I’m a bit of a Lucky McKee aficionado. I consider his “May” to be one of the greatest and most underappreciated horror flicks of this new millennium. Its companion piece …

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Quiz: What Classic Horror Monster Are You?

Horrornews.net and Horror Equity Fund have partnered together to bring you this classic monsters quiz.  Take it and find out,  What Classic Horror Monster Are You?  Frankenstein? Creature from the Black Lagoon? The Wolfman? Dracula? Classic Monster Quiz    If You Love Horror, Own It! Horror Equity Fund, Inc. (HEF) is a fan-enabled community, offering first-time and experienced investors the …

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Film Review: Futureworld (1976)

SYNOPSIS: “It has been several years since the disaster at the Delos resort (the events of Westworld), and Delos is ready to reopen, replacing Westworld with the new ‘Futureworld’ which is getting rave reviews. However, one of Delos’s most famous critics, reporter Chuck Browning, is still not convinced that Delos has cleaned up its act, especially after an informant with …

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Film Review: Freakshow (2007)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: In a modern retelling of Tod Browning’s “Freaks” (1932), “Freakshow” tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ticket sales, but the wily Lucy has bigger plans. She convinces the gang to let her …

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Film Review: Lucy (2014)

SYNOPSIS: An unwilling participant in a drug trafficking scheme involving an experimental new drug, Lucy is inadvertently exposed to the drug’s unusual characteristics. Lucy begins to utilize more and more of her brain capacity to the point where she can not only control her own body, but others around her and things such as phones, computers and gravity. Now she must enlist the help of strangers …

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