Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel, Twilight follows the saga of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who moves to a small town to live with her father. At school, she meets Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite his cautions, Bella falls in love with Edward, which endangers …
Read More »Tag Archives: 2008
Film Review: Cave Women On Mars (2008)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “It is the future. 1987. Great scientific advances have allowed mankind to achieve that which previously only existed in speculative fiction — space travel. But, on the eve of humanity’s first manned mission to the red planet, no amount of speculation could adequately prepare us for the unexpected discovery of…CAVE WOMEN ON MARS!” REVIEW: This week’s desperate …
Read More »Film Review: Sick (short film) (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A woman is deserted on a dirt road, finding her way into a shack with zombified men who want her for their own nefarious purposes. REVIEW: After an argument, a woman is dropped off on a country dirt road. She comes across a zombie man, who chases her through the countryside before knocking her out and taking her to …
Read More »Film Review: Detroit Metal City (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up “demon emperor” Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a …
Read More »Film Review: Sadisticum (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sadisticum tells the story of a man, for it seems to be only one mission in life, the torture and killing of his fellow men. At the age of 17, he has already killed two people. Then he succeeded to prevent his appetite for many years. He spent half of his life to work with the …
Read More »Film Review: Chanbara Striptease (Oppai Chanbara) (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the death of his mother, 20-year-old Lily lives with her grandmother and is going to be the successor to the deadly martial art Sayama Hasin-ryu, which is transmitted for several centuries, from woman to woman. During the initiation ritual, Lily mysteriously falls in the past, 300 years ago.It is in an unknown forest near a …
Read More »Film Review: Genius Party | Genius Party Beyond (2007)
SYNOPSIS: Several directors take part in an anthology dedicated to short anime films. REVIEW: From the distribution team over at Shout Factory arrives a brand new animated short film anthology ripe with all sort of spectacular animation pieces. This particular release includes both collective of Genius Party (which includes 12 animated shorts) and Genius Party Beyond (of which contains 5 …
Read More »Film Review: Death Bell (Gosa) (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Advanced students who take a special class are being tortured by their class rank. REVIEW: Directed and co-written by the music video director Chang (Yoon Hong-seung), Death Bell is a South Korean teen horror with a bit of a twist. It combines traditional ghost story with more modern (and graphic) horror elements, creating a lukewarm mixture …
Read More »Film Review: Alone in the Dark II (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When the night falls, and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby. One of the most popular characters in video game history, Edward Carnby returns for a second mission.
Read More »Film Review: Sudden Slaughter – Knochenwald 3 (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of occultists bring a vicious killer back from the dead. A copycat killer follows in his footsteps, so now they have two killers on the loose. REVIEW: Oh Germany, you and your silly, silly horror movies. The two previous films in the Knochenwald Trilogy were about a deranged, supernatural killer in a gas mask, who …
Read More »Film Review: End Call (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call REVIEW: End Call is a 2008 Japanese teen horror directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto and starring Yuria Haga, Asami Usuda and …
Read More »Film Review: Vinyan (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When someone dies a horrible death, their spirit becomes confused and angry. They become Vinyan. A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart, Mission: Impossible) is convinced she sees him in …
Read More »Film Review: Bubba’s Chili Parlor (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An homage to the 70’s B-movie Drive In theater experience, including fake intermissions and commercials. The film itself is zombie horror: Bubba’s Chili Parlor, a restaurant in rural Texas, becomes ground zero for a worldwide zombie epidemic after Bubba unwittingly serves chili infected with a mutated strain of Mad Cow Disease.
Read More »Film Review: Aegri Somnia (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Edgar is living in the shadow of his wife’s sudden death. Haunted by vivid hallucinations and a faceless city threatening to swallow him whole, Edgar’s world begins to unravel as his nightmares become a reality and Edgar is left with a choice: prison or paradise. REVIEW: Aegri Somnia translates from Latin to ‘a sick man’s dreams’, …
Read More »Film Review: Exitus Interruptus II House of Pain (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 2 years have passed since the terrible events in the exitus house. Sophie, the sister of the dead monique, suffers from the fact that the body of her sister has never been found. Together with her friend Lena, she makes her own research and discovers a terrible secret in the former murder house! REVIEW: Exitus Interruptus …
Read More »