Tag Archives: 2006

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When strange things start happening at an Arctic oil-drilling outpost, workers fear their cabin is haunted by ancient spirits, and the unexplained events spark a feud between an oil company representative (Ron Perlman) and an eco-activist (James LeGros). Larry Fessenden‘s supernatural thriller adds a terrifying new layer to global warming and the perils of oil production. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A raucous teen boy with a feminine face is teased everywhere, so his odd biker father dresses him as a girl and sends him to an all-girl school. The lad introduces himself as Sukeban, and a classmate, Michiko, takes him to after-school activities. Lessons on humility turn violent when a masked hatchet-wielding woman turns up. Jealousy, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell. REVIEW: An innocent childhood game goes wrong when a one of the kids playing goes missing. Eight years …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set in the fictional third world country of Canpuna, ‘Werewolf in a Women’s Prison’ is the story of Sarah (Victoria De Mare), when camping with her boyfriend, is attacked by a werewolf. She wakes up in a corrupt prison only to find out her boyfriend has been torn apart and she is the only suspect. Forced …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of high school students get together to work a seasonal job involving the redesign of a haunted house. There, one of them summons a demon who is hell-bent on murdering all of them. The group must find a way to defeat the evil in the dumbest way possible and save the world, or at …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there’s a larger mystery to solve among the island’s secretive, neo-pagan community. REVIEW: In the remake of the 1973 classic, The Wicker Man is the story of Edward Malus (Nicholas Cage), a police officer from California suffering from PTSD after witnessing a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: What’s scary is being a human being, and what’s scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror. REVIEW: God’s Left Hand, Devil’s Right Hand is a film adaptation of the comic book artists Kazuo Umezu’s manga by the same name. I personally came across …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A short from Ron DeCaro. REVIEW: Ron DeCaro is a moviemaker who knows what he wants, and what he wants is bloody, bloody gore. When it comes to his films, it would seem that he has a pretty good handle on the effects aspect of the movie business. What I would love to see is what …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Davide and his fiancée Alice aren’t two simple serial killers. They are looking for something inside the bodies of their victims, which forms the mystery of the story. And thy will continue to kill people until they find what they are looking for. Their crazy love story and strange research go on, but something changes when …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he’ll not see Bigfoot again. REVIEW: If you’ve ever watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and thought, ‘This tale of a man being driven paranoid by his own potentially overactive imagination is all well and good, but what if it had a more …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS A battle between the world’s two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals. REVIEW: Death Note 1 is supernatural action thriller based on a best-selling manga by the same name. Written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young farmhand goes to war, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend in an existential crisis. REVIEW: A young farmhand named Andre Demester gets called to war. He tells his friend, who bids him goodbye. He tells his girlfriend, who takes him on a walk that culminates in the two having sex in a frozen field. This …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ghost Game tells the story of 11 contestants who sign up for a scary reality show which forces them to confront the supernatural and their innermost fears. They’re brought to an ancient war museum in Cambodia, which was used as a Khmer Rouge prison twenty years before. Thousands of innocent people were tortured and killed there …