Tag Archives: 2014

SYNOPSIS: Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure …

SYNOPSIS: A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo Ichikawa) cast in the play, even though he’s a relatively unknown actor. Other performers Rio Asahina (Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Ito) lust after Miyuki. Off …

SYNOPSIS: A struggling paparazzo gets pulled into a mad pageant manager’s plot to win Miss America while trying to break the story. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MACHINE BABY, written and directed by Sean Richard Budde. This film was awarded the title of “Best WTF Short Film” at the GenreBlast Film Festival. If that acronym means what …

SYNOPSIS: Zach’s girlfriend, Beth, comes back from the dead. He resumes his relationship with her, but all is not well, he soon finds. REVIEW: LIFE AFTER BETH is a hip, feel-good romantic comedy . . . with zombies. Comparisons to WARM BODIES will inevitably be made, but that’s beside the point. Beth (Aubrey Plaza) has died. No one is taking …

SYNOPSIS: Travis is an underground comic book artist with a penchant for the obscene. When one of his comics insults a Chinatown crime boss, the gangster punishes Travis by removing his drawing hand. A daunted Travis retreats into a life of alcoholic misery. That is, until his hand returns from the grave… REVIEW: I think it’s fair to say that, …

SYNOPSIS: When her sister, Aisling, is found murdered in a public bathroom, Cleo Callahan, with the aid of her best friend, Robin O’Riley, attempts to track down the killer and exact her revenge. REVIEW: Insecurity is the Ebola virus of mental states; it causes all other states of mind to bleed out, killing its host, unless the host can permanently …

SYNOPSIS: Albert, Katrina, Jill, Danny and Officer Dearborn find themselves hiding out in a house during a zombie apocalypse brought upon by a blood-born disease. REVIEW: Within (aka Dead Inside)  is a Troma Team film. While sitting in a restaurant with her boyfriend, Jill has a vision that everyone around her dies a painful, bloody death and there are bodies …

SYNOPSIS: An elite team of mercenaries is hired for a covert operation, deep inside a former Soviet state. Arriving at an underground laboratory, their mission is to secure specimens of genetically engineered human and alien hybrids. Battling with a ferocious armed militia as well as dark, menacing creatures, the odds of survival are stacked against them. REVIEW: Although loaded with …

SYNOPSIS: A group of paramedics trapped in an ambulance after attempting to help an injured man (who has ties to a very unsavory group of people) find themselves terrorized by members of a Mexican drug cartel.

SYNOPSIS: A chronic philanderer falls victim to an extortion scheme when he is abducted by four masked strangers demanding retribution for his sins.

SYNOPSIS: A graduate student on an archaeological dig in a desert performs a ritual on a mummy wearing a fearsome mask, awakening the blood-hungry spirit of Tezcalipoca, Lord of the Smoking Mirror. REVIEW: Charles Pinion and Greg Salman wrote American Mummy. The film starts off with a few friends in the desert. They are on an archaeological dig but of …

SYNOPSIS: Alien Robots have taken over the world while most adults cower in their homes and follow orders. A plucky band of teens accidentally discover a low tech countermeasure to the Robots’ control and vengeance is theirs!

SYNOPSIS: The purchase of a mystery Jigsaw Puzzle from a strange and unsettling vendor leads a man to an evening of frightening consequences. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE JIGSAW from Sibling Films, written, directed, and pretty much everything else by Basil and Rashad Al-Safar.

SYNOPSIS: On the eve of the founding of the Joseon Dynasty, an unprecedented robbery shocks the nation-in-waiting: a whale has swallowed the Emperor’s Royal Seal, and a bounty placed on its retrieval. Now, every infamous gang of thieves, thugs, pirates, and government agents take to the seas, battling the elements, creatures of the deep, and each other to possess the …

SYNOPSIS: SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE is a group of 10 short films, offering horror across the entire spectrum from comedy to slashers to a crime film noir and many more!  REVIEW: I love myself a good horror short. The older I am the more I appreciate a short, well-thought story with a clever, witty twist, and with the mainstream horrors …