Tag Archives: 2005

SYNOPSIS: An evil yet adorable Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer – this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair. (IMDB) REVIEW: Directors: Charles Band Writers: William Butler, Domonic Muir (as August White) Starring: Robin Sydney, Ryan Locke, Gary Busey, Jonathan Chase, Daniela Melgoza, …

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 …

SYNOPSIS: A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results. REVIEW: I had been dreading this. Ever since I agreed to reviewing movies that are largely considered bad, there was one director whose work I feared having to review. I had a feeling, this sense of impending doom, that it was going to happen. Sure enough, my …

  SYNOPSIS: An edgy action thriller set in Las Vegas during a terrorist attack. A brilliant computer loner takes control of the city and the attack as he fights with his fits of overwhelming depression and obsessions with love and death. REVIEW: Today’s journey into the B grade cinema jungle is brought to us by one Neil Breen. A Las …

SYNOPSIS: A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko’s “family circle”, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

SYNOPSIS: Several tourists get lost and decide to seek help in an old basement, they don’t know but they are invading the place of a hermit murderer, who has the power to turn its victims into guts and bloodthirsty monsters. REVIEW: If you’re a fan of German horror films, then the name Marc Rohnstock is probably one you’re quite familiar …

SYNOPSIS: A surreal series of loosely connected and often absurd comedic vignettes touching on themes including alien life, relationships, and the dangers of interpretive dance. REVIEW: 2005’s Funky Forest: The First Contact is less an anthology than an arthouse collection of long-form shower thoughts, anecdotes, and tiny fever dreams. Directors Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, and Shunichiro Miki have assembled a …

SYNOPSIS: The fate of the world hangs in the balance as an apprentice monk is tasked with retrieving a powerful, enchanted coffin stolen from a temple by an opportunistic thief with possibly nefarious intentions. REVIEW: Let me preface this review by saying that I’ve not read the manga on which this action-fantasy film was based. Fangirls and fanboys, please hold …

SYNOPSIS: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men …

SYNOPSIS: An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and p*rnography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a p*rno video taken of them with a prostitute. REVIEW: Way back in 1999, a movie called 8mm came out – directed by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys), written by Andrew Kevin Walker …

SYNOPSIS: It turns out that instead of being the kind and jolly fat guy that brings us gifts each year on Christmas that we all love Santa Claus is actually pretty much the Antichrist. You see, after going on a killing spree back in the day he lost a curling match to an angel (yes, you read that right) and …

SYNOPSIS: EATING RAZORS (a love story) Two years after losing his wife Laura in a car crash, Trent struggles to let go. REVIEW: Eating Razors (also known as Eating Razors: A Love Story) is the film-making debut of writer/director Ron DeCaro (see also his short film, The White Lie, and his first full length feature, The Gateway Meat). I many …

SYNOPSIS: Wandering a zombie wasteland, Matool survives by his wits and animal instinct, often employing his trusty hammer and gigantic nails to fend off the ravenous hordes of flesh-eating undead. But when he is kidnapped by a mysterious couple, Matool must rely on an entirely different weapon in his arsenal to survive… Written & directed by Scott Phillips (screenwriter of …

SYNOPSIS: Host David Aten takes you on a journey through two short stories: RITES OF THE ILLUMINATI – Bill Clayton wants to make a deal that will make him rich and a governor, but after meeting with the reptilian leader Pindar he realizes he is in over his head. ULTRA – Christine Wilder undergoes heinous mind control programming techniques that …