Tag Archives: 2000

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three disgruntled orphans spend their nights picking up hookers, then raping and killing them. Things get a bit more complicated when they anger a local gangster leader, and then when one of them falls in love with one of their victims. REVIEW: Prostitute killers by the director Sam Shu-Pui Ho pretty much delivers exactly what one …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: When two campers on a peaceful weekend excursion are suddenly confronted, harassed, and molested by a pack of heavily armed outdoorsman, a brutal series of events ensues. A struggle for survival and sanity drives the surviving victim into a bloody vendetta of rage. The hunters become the hunted in a malicious game of cat and mouse. REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The sixth or seventh best superhero team in the world pursue their rightful place in the harshly competitive world of toy tie-ins and fighting evil. REVIEW: Per the title of the film, you might say 2000’s “The Specials” title mimics its storyline. The Specials is a film that while flying under the radar boasts a top …

SYNOPSIS: In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest… REVIEW: It’s safe to say that most Americans’ training wheels in Asian horror came with the release of the English remake of Ringu, one of the most popular and long-standing Japanese franchises …

SYNOPSIS: In the year 3000, humanity is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth of its resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has reverted to a primitive state, believing the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Not for the faint-hearted. Baise-Moi, literally translated as ‘F*ck Me’, defies categories – it features p*rnographic sex scenes & violent shootings, but it won’t fit anyone’s definition of an erotic thriller. After separately committing murders, two French women (Karen Lancaume & Raffaëla Anderson) join together in a spree of crime & sex. Because both have endured …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of five people coming to a small town to investigate what caused the disappearance of people. Soon everything falls into place – in the town are operating zombies REVIEW: By now, at the end of 2016, Timo Rose has already directed over twenty-five films and is currently working on a few more. These titles …

SYNOPSIS: A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits. REVIEW: It’s 1960 and a Catholic school girl arrives outside the gates of the St Francis boarding school. In one hand, she carries a duffel bag containing a baseball bat and shotgun, and in the other hand, a can of petrol. Wearing shades, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of tourists arrives in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses and possibly the witch herself. REVIEW: Everyone knows The Blair Witch Project, right? The smash hit of 1999, made for a paltry $60,000, which pioneered …

SYNOPSIS: Family is the source of all evil, in this aspiring horror film which traces its descent from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gore and the atmospheric Hammer films. Chiyo, an old woman and her granddaughter, Yuki, are the sole survivors of a horrendous crime which wipes out an entire family. They find solace under the roof of far-removed relatives. The …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: This is the classic tale of misfit high school students taking a prank too far, resulting in the death of a classmate (or at least it seems). After burying him alive and torching him, he lashes out from the grave, only to mysteriously disappear just as quick. They had also filmed their attempt at psuedo-snuff, with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl looking through her father’s notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything looks ordinary until the name “Tomie” begins appearing throughout the notebook. REVIEW: The regenerating she devil is back once more in the third installment of the nine-part Tomie series directed by Tomijiro Mitsuishi. …

SYNOPSIS: A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of …

SYNOPSIS: “Turkish, with his close friend and accomplice Tommy, gets pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick-Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets badly beaten by Mickey, an Irish Gypsy who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter, wants to buy a caravan off the gypsies. They then …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend’s father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon …