SYNOPSIS: If you can’t beat them, become them. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have VENGEANCE BLOODY VENGEANCE, a perfectly low-budget short from the USA written, directed, and starring Adam Michaels and Chaz Dray. So this lo-fi masterpiece was both written and filmed in one night in Chicago with a total budget of 35.00 dollars. You read that right …
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Film Review: Avenged (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A deaf girl is brutalized by a murderous gang who are then hunted by her when the bloodthirsty spirit of an Apache warrior inhabits her lifeless body. REVIEW: Originally going under the name ‘Savaged’, Avenged is a low-budget exploitation from Michael S. Ojeda that manages to provide a new twist of the rape revenge genre. Full disclosure, I find …
Read More »Film Review: Oblivion (2013) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “In 2077, Jack Harper works with his companion Victoria ‘Vika’ on the surveillance station Tech 49. Jack repairs drones and his memory was erased as part of the security process to stay on Earth, and he knows that Earth is completely depleted after sixty years of war against the alien invaders Scavengers ‘Scavs’. The aliens have destroyed the moon …
Read More »Film Review: Septic Man (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront the murdering madman known as Lord Auch. REVIEW: The appropriately titled Septic Man opens with a scene of a woman in what has to be the filthiest bathroom …
Read More »Film Review: Bat Outta Hell (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A young group of avid documentary film makers are sent to shoot in the vast extremes of the South Australian wilderness. They end up in a place called Nowhere Else. What transpires there is devastatingly, like nothing else on Earth. REVIEW: “Bat Outta Hell”, this film is fun, I first need to throw out a disclaimer I’ve have a …
Read More »Film Review: Gator Green (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Florida, 1973. Vietnam vet Jack Andrew runs a bar with two of his Nam buddies. In the early hours of a Sunday morning Andrew snaps, and together with his cohorts terrorizes the patrons. He chops up the bartender and feeds the pieces to the hungry alligators nearby. When a drug dealer and his girlfriend arrive with a load of …
Read More »Film Review: Shadow Zombie (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A southern tale of love and death set deep in Louisiana country. A lonely drug dealer (Kim Filth) finds peace when he transforms into his alter ego, Shadow Zombie, by merely painting his face and snorting painkillers.
Read More »Film Review: Iron Man 3 (2013) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “The events of Loki’s attack on New York City has left Tony Stark a completely changed man. Now saddled with a severe case of insomnia and post traumatic stress disorder, Tony spends his sleepless nights the only way he knows how – coming up with new prototypes for the Iron Man suit. But now new events require that Tony …
Read More »Film Review: Peine de Mort (short film) (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Memories of a young woman: when she returns home, she is brutally assaulted by two men. Shattered, she hesitates, then chooses the path of vengeance… REVIEW: Peine de Mort, which translates to Death Sentence in English, is a short film by French film writer/director Julien de Volte (he’s worked on a couple other short films as well as the …
Read More »Film Review: Snowpiercer (2013)
SYNOPSIS: “The nation’s release the substance CW-7 with the intention of controlling the global warning, but accidentally it results in another Ice Age destroying Earth. The only survivors live in the train Snowpiercer which is driven by a perpetual motion engine created by the millionaire Wilford that lives in the engine part. In 2031, after seventeen years, there is a …
Read More »Film Review: Breeding Farm (2013)
SYNOPSIS: After a night of partying, four friends are kidnapped by a mysterious man. The friends wake up in a basement, and realize they are part of something horrifying. A human breeding farm. They are to be milked, bred, and much, much worse. REVIEW: With so many films being released each year, it’s becoming more and more difficult to decide …
Read More »Film Review: Absolutio – Erlosung im Blut (2013)
SYNOPSIS: his mother’s death busy devout Isaiah very much. When he is haunted by nightmares still, he is determined that God has given him an order. He should move sinners to reverse, by any means REVIEW: When the main character of Philip Lilienschwarz’s (writer of Marcel Walz’s Blood Feast remake) 2013 directorial debut, Absolutio – Erlosung im Blut, aka Absolution: …
Read More »Film Review: The Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta (2013)
SYNOPSIS: It’s the placenta coming of age story the world’s been waiting for. As Luke the Placenta enters his teenage years, he tries desperately to connect with those around him, only to be met with indifference, confusion, and cruelty. And the sweet taste of oral fixation. REVIEW: Love, like all intangibles, is an enigma. The only way it can be …
Read More »Film Review: Encosto: CURTA METRAGEM De Horror (short film) (2013)
REVIEW: Got another short film today, kiddies! Today we have a tasty selection from Brazil called ENCOSTO:CURTA METRAGEM DE HORROR (Backrest:Short horror film). The film is in Porteguese with English subtitles, and was written and directed (and stars) Joel Caetano.
Read More »Film Review: The Demon’s Rook (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A young boy named Roscoe finds a portal to another world where he is taught magic by an elder demon known as Dimwos. Dimwos raises the boy into manhood, revealing to him many secrets REVIEW: Director – James Sizemore Starring – Ashleigh Jo Sizemore, James Sizemore, John Chatham You just gotta love a low budget film where the filmmaker, …
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