SYNOPSIS: After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara (Kento Yamazaki) turns to a mysterious girl (Ai Hashimoto) who holds the key to the dark mystery. In the spring of 1998, 15-year-old Koichi Sakakibara’s (Kento Yamazaki) father goes abroad and Koichi Sakakibara goes to live with his aunt Reiko Mikami (Ai Kato), who …
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Film Review: 2012 (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When typhoons, earthquakes and other disasters suddenly threaten to destroy the world, Jackson (John Cusack), his estranged wife, Kate (Amanda Peet), and others surmise that the secret may lie in ancient Mayan prophecies that describe global calamity in the year 2012. Roland Emmerich co-writes and directs a star-studded ensemble cast that also includes Thandie Newton, Oliver …
Read More »Film Review: Raid of the Vomit-Blood Fiends (short film) (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: All is well when a husband and wife discuss politics over a candlelit dinner. That is, until the butler misplaces the wine. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Teenager Isabel Mann is seduced by a violent sect of day-walking vampires. Her classmates start to go missing, attracting two detectives.Things get weird as the disturbed teenager kills at will in the nearby woods. She’s aided by head vampire Alejo, and eerily by Isabel’s lost mother, an earlier recruit. She’s trained in the art of the …
Read More »Film Review: Citadel (2012)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: The unlikely duo of an agoraphobic single father and depraved priest team up to destroy a group of demonic children that rule with carnage and mayhem the streets a destitute European city. REVIEW: Directed By: Ciaran Foy Starring: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, Amy Shiels Citadel, a low budget import from the Ireland plays heavily …
Read More »Film Review: Love Motel (Kong bu lu guan) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Yang Chen(Victor Chen Sze Hon) and Lin Xinya(Mi Gong) are dating with each other. They both work for a TV station as a reporter. They are assigned to report a murder case in the Love Motel. As soon as they arrive at the hotel, their are involved in a series of nightmares. It turns out that the victims used …
Read More »Film Review: Horror Stories (Museoun Iyagi) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter. REVIEW: I’ve said it before, …
Read More »Film Review: 3 A.M. 3D (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A trio of creepy stories from Thailand that includes a tale about a haunted wig, one about a mortician in training falling in love with the ghost of a dead woman, and two jokesters learning that there are dire consequences for playing pranks on certain people. REVIEW: I wasn’t very familiar with 3 A.M. before I watched it …
Read More »Film Review: Hello Herman (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, famous journalist Lax Morales, sending him clips of the shootings captured with Herman’s own digital …
Read More »Film Review: Biohazard: Patient Zero (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Two young scientists are swept up in a government plot to suppress the truth about a biological disaster at a genetic research facility. REVIEW: The distributor, Hannover House, has been marketing Patient Zero as a prequel to Humans vs. Zombies (also directed by Brian T. Jaynes), and although I haven’t seen the original film, I found Patient Zero a …
Read More »Film Review: Indemnity Rage Of A Jealous Vampire (short film) (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man on the run from his ex-lover, who has sworn to kill him, takes refuge in a rural bar, where he finds an unlikely ally in the local bartender. As the man opens up to the bartender over many rounds, the bartender – who is battling demons of his own – begins to wonder if …
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It’s becoming more and more evident to me that our time on this planet is limited. It’s a strange thing, this 2012 rhetoric. I’m not one to easily buy into doomsday theories, but the last couple of months have been un-relentless with signs of the apocalypse. You need only look to the skies to see thousands of dead birds dropping …
Read More »Film Review: End of the World – 2012 – Box set
Rate This Movie End of the World – 2012 Apocalyptic Prophecies and Inexplicable Phenomena REVIEW: Browsing thru this huge collection, your gonna learn a thing or 2 about the 2012 legend. With so many books and programs dedicated to this prophesied historical date for massive change, the amount of information that has come forward is almost overwhelming. Let this set …
Read More »Film Review: Where the Dead Go to Die (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods. REVIEW: I knew when the owner of Unearthed Films sent me this one claiming it was “twisted as hell”, I should probably take his word for it. …
Read More »Film Review: Dropping Evil (2012)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: After his friends slip him LSD on a camping trip, ultra-nerdy Nancy hallucinates that they are evil beings and begins to systematically hunt them down. Meanwhile, a mysterious corporation monitors the entire event for their own hidden purpose. REVIEW: Last night I had trouble sleeping. I woke around 3 or 4am. I tried going back to sleep …
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