SYNOPSIS: Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. REVIEW: ‘Hell is other people’ goes the old Sartre quote. Taken from his play, No Exit, and exemplifying his stance on existentialist philosophy, …
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Film Review: Bulletproof Monk (2003)
SYNOPSIS: “An ancient scroll that, when recited out loud, grants whoever reads it the power to turn the world into whatever they want it to be. A person deemed worthy to protect the scroll is chosen and that person is granted invincibility which only lasts for sixty years, so another guardian is chosen. During World War Two, in a monastery, …
Read More »Film Review: Battle Royale II (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara. REVIEW: If you do a casual search for “best Asian horror movies,” there are a handful of titles that will appear on nearly every list. Oldboy, …
Read More »Film Review: Fantom Kiler 3 (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A beautiful woman drives to the country, strips and photographs herself in various compromising positions. Naturally, Such lewed behaviour cannot go unpunished by the Fantom Kiler. Later on Ursula arrives at a run down garage where she hopes to get her car serviced. Unfortunately its not only her car that gets serviced as Natasha is forced to strip and …
Read More »Film Review: Snuff Trap (2003)
SYNOPSIS: When the daughter of a politician suddenly disappears, her step-mother investigates the porno industry in search of her. REVIEW: Snuff Trap (aka Snuff Killer – La Morte in Diretta) is one of the later films of Italian writer/director Bruno Mattei (this time working under the pseudonym Pierre Le Blanc), released in 2003. After arguing a bit with her mother, …
Read More »Film Review: Rossa Venezia (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A woman who was jailed for killing her husband after finding him cheating is released and becomes a serial killer, attempting to rid the world of women who bring pain on other women. REVIEW: This… this is just hardcore p**n. There’s literal hardcore p**nography in the first minute of the movie, and it goes on throughout. So that’s relatively …
Read More »Film Review: The Room (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny’s best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again. REVIEW: Called one of the “worst movies ever made”, the movie “the Room” resides in the arena of …
Read More »Film Review: The Last Horror Movie (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh. REVIEW: The Last Horror Movie is a British horror film that seems to straddle the line between original …
Read More »Film Review: King of the Ants (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A young drifter discovers his true calling when he’s hired by a mobster to stalk and kill a prominent accountant, and then decides to seek revenge when the stingy thugs try to kill him rather than pay him. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Family Portraits: a Trilogy of America (2003)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Deceit, long kept secrets, and grisly murders surrounded in mystery – all this and more can be found in Bloodbath in the House of Knives. What starts as a harmless visit to a hypnosis demonstration turns into a roller coaster ride filled with dead bodies that start to pile up around poor Ivy (Anne Reiss). What …
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