Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bullet Collector follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin. REVIEW: The Russian film, Bullet Collector (aka Sobiratel Pul), is a dark and bleak tale, a kind of anti-coming …
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Film Review: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
Read More »Film Review: Day 6 (2011) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dr. Piso studies the alien abductions. From the abductees under hypnosis, he has understood that some alien races have been installing, for millennia, their active memories in the people’s brains, to exploit a special energy: the Soul. REVIEW: Varo Venturi’s Day 6 is another genre outing that has made its rounds under different titles: Alien Exorcism …
Read More »Sleep Tight (2011)
SYNOPSIS: You wake day after day to the comfort and security of your home. But how safe is it really?
Read More »Midsummer Nightmares (2011)
SYNOPSIS: It’s always just a party- until somebody gets killed! Audrey Small (Julie Sherwood) and three of her closest friends are preparing to throw a costume party, Midsummer Nightmares, which everyone calls ‘the social event of the season. But there is someone in their midsts who would prefer to make this faux-bloodbath a real one. Can Audrey and her friends …
Read More »The Splat Pack (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A look back at the first decade of 21st Century horror films and the filmmakers that re-energized the genre.
Read More »Extraterrestrial (Extraterrestre) (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Everyone knows what to do if one morning the sky would be absolutely full of UFOs: run as fast as you can. However, what would happen if the invasion started while you are in the flat of the girl of your dreams, the one you have just met?
Read More »The Warped Forest (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there’s a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the …
Read More »The Last Sacrifice (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Somebody killed the party… that’s what Silas and Babs remember from last night’s party. The story of the monster that kills children and feeds on Sacrificial Freshmen. But now they’re awake the morning after only to find that the party the attended supposedly occurred five years ago and every student that attended the party has not been seen since. …
Read More »Hemo (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Felicia (Pamela Price, How I Got Lost and Calvin (newcomer Kevin Petroff) are vampires living in post-Gatsby Long Island. Their method of obtaining their drug of choice is compromised when the local blood bank beefs up security, and they must resort to murder to get their fix. The advice of a friendly neighbor (Steve Dash, Friday the 13th Part …
Read More »The Ridges (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Four college students at Ohio University set out to make a documentary proving that spirits and the paranormal are not real. In order to do this, they plan to film their investigation of an old lunatic asylum in Athens, OH. Their investigation proves more than they could have anticipated
Read More »The Ideal (2011)
SYNOPSIS: It’s a summer job for Julia and Alexander — the chance to work with charismatic teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the mysterious school building. As the past and present blur together so do sanity and madness, and Mr. Zenidro draws them into a lesson not found in books.
Read More »Film Review: Season Of The Witch (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two knights of the crusade are enlisted to transport a suspected witch to a monastery where she will be put on trial for being suspected of bringing the black plague upon the land, killing thousands. But they end up with a lot more than they can handle from the young girl and end up in a …
Read More »Film Review: Monster Killer (kôrui) (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Copious amounts of blood characterize two Tokyo detectives’ hunt for a serial killer. REVIEW: Monster Killer, also known as Red Tears, is a 2011 action horror by the director Takanori Tsujimoto. It’s a cheap low budget romp that offers a decent amount of gore but very little plot and is likely to leave the viewer ever so slightly disappointed. …
Read More »Film Review: Killer Joe (2011)
SYNOPSIS: “A totally twisted deep-fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story.”Synopsis: When an inopportune debt presents itself to one Chris Smith he brainstorms on ideas to come up with some considerable cash, fast. Seeing as it was his mother that created this predicament he obtains the services of Joe Cooper, professional hit man for hire. Will his mother’s insurance policy …
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