SYNOPSIS: Giving a new twist to horror, this film bring metal, blood, and gore back to the screen! Written and directed by both Kristoff (of Horrormerch.com) and Kyle Severn (of Incantation and Acheron), this film is one killer party with mind-blowing amounts of blood. REVIEW: Somewhere along the way, heavy metal and horror movies became permanently intertwined. How this happened …
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Film Review: Famine (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A high school stages a 24hr charity famine five years after an accident at a similar event left a teacher horribly disfigured. As night falls, new teacher Miss Vickers attempts to control her unruly students while a masked figure stalks the empty corridors in search of blood. REVIEW: This is a great time to be a horror film aficionado: …
Read More »Film Review: A Chinese Ghost Story (Sien lui yau wan) (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tax collector Ning, a clumsy and easily frightened man, doesn’t have any money and decides to stay overnight in an abandoned temple. Little does he know that the temple is haunted. He meets a very beautiful lady who seduces him, but he doesn’t know that she is a ghost, usually not leaving any man alive… REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: Silver Cell (2011)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A Wicked, Atmospheric journey into the dark depths of the human psyche… REVIEW: Man, oh man. If you’re going to make a film where I have to learn a new vocabulary and this broad convoluted after-death system just to get through the darned thing, you could at least make it a good movie!! Silver Cell is an …
Read More »Film Review: White: The Melody of the Curse (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Girl group “Pink Dolls” is always pushed into the background by other popular idols. When the girls release their new song “White”, a remake from unknown origins they become instant sensations REVIEW: Terrible title, terrible film. That sentiment might not always be accurate, but in the case of White: The Melody of the Curse, it very …
Read More »Film Review: Mad Dog (short film) (2011)
SYNOPSIS: 1930’s. East Tennessee. Townspeople take matters into their own hands when a boy bitten by a rabid dog goes untreated. REVIEW: What can you do in a short film which will allow the audience to be transported and entertained in such a short amount of time. Short Mad Dog directed and written by Clint Keller is a good case …
Read More »Film Review: Regissören (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A director falls into insanity because of the films he is making, and we follow his attempt at making his last film, an anthology of surreal films. REVIEW: ok kids. Got a feature for you this time. It was sent to me as a short film, but with a run time of one hour and ten …
Read More »Film Review: Candy House (Schlaraffenhaus) (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman’s estranged sister travels to her family estate for the reading of a will, where she and her sister are set upon by two people looking to torture their way into a fortune. REVIEW: It’s been a while since I’ve seen honest to God torture p*rn. Most movies try to spread out their nastiness over the …
Read More »Film Review: Psycho Killer Bloodbath (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two (somewhat) interconnected stories about people in a small town being attacked by murderous inmates. One part of the movie focuses on a nurse and a doctor at a lunatic asylum who must struggle to survive the night when all the dangerous patients break free and take over the hospital and the other revolves around one …
Read More »Film Review: The Cat (2011) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: So-yeon (Park Min Young) suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth. REVIEW: The Cat is a 2011 Korean ghost horror directed by Seung-wook Byeon. It’s a pretty typical movie of it’s kind and as such …
Read More »Film Review: The Velocipastor (short film) (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A priest is scratched by a piece of amber and begins to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his darker desires, but soon he realizes his powers might be used for good, albeit violent, murderous good. REVIEW: Just take a minute and read this title again – THE VELOCIPASTOR. I cannot rate the amount of …
Read More »Film Review: Texas Killing Fields (2011)
SYNOPSIS: In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders. REVIEW: True crime has made a comeback in recent years due to the podcast Serial and television shows like The Jinx and Making a Murderer. The mystery of the full details of a crime or …
Read More »Film Review: Hyde’s Secret Nightmare (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Hyde’s Secret Nightmare is an erotic reinterpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic gothic novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. REVIEW: European filmmakers seem to thrive on the extreme. Any horror aficionado will tell you to look overseas if it’s something raw and grueling you desire. Hyde’s Secret Nightmare — directed by Domiziano Cristopharo — is …
Read More »Film Review: Erotibot (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A Rich Heiress Receive a Third Butlerdroid for Her Birthday in Which She Begins Lusting After Him REVIEW: I’m a sucker for stories about robots. Whether it’s an android that longs to be human, or a computer that realizes its superiority to its creator, there is something about artificial intelligence that is immediately sympathetic and fascinating. It can be …
Read More »Film Review: Melancholia (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide into the Earth. REVIEW: Director Lars von Trier has a style that not all may agree with. Though in his latest effort titled Melancholia, he does achieve taking you on a journey that has you contemplating and guessing every step of the way. …
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