Tag Archives: 2014

SYNOPSIS: Life takes a terrifying and unpredictable turn for Tyler & Chelsea when they begin to receive menacing phone calls from a seemingly unstable woman who insists that Tyler’s her ex-boyfriend. REVIEW: Trends come and go in the movie industry. A movie will come along and hit a note in audiences that makes it extremely popular. Other filmmakers use the …

SYNOPSIS: A collection of short films about perversion and bizarre sexuality, Hippocampus M 21th pushes the boundaries of fetish and propriety. REVIEW: Have you ever watched Fear Factor and gotten to the really gross challenges and though to yourself, hey, I’d really like to try that completely naked? Yeah, me neither. The ridiculously named Hippocampus M 21th is a series of bizarre vignettes …

SYNOPSIS: When Lenard (Walter Pena), an author is sentenced to house arrest he grapples with schizophrenia and visions of his slain father. It seems as though his father has the most carnal of intentions for his son. He fully intends on resuming the blood bath he’d started and won’t rest until he has Lenard’s undivided attention. In a tale swirling …

SYNOPSIS: A young man is lured into a dangerous love triangle that begins to take a series of shocking and grisly supernatural turns. REVIEW: Blood Punch follows Milton (Milo Cawthorne), a brilliant chemistry student who, before his campus meth lab was discovered by police, was on the verge of graduating with a college degree. During his time in a court-mandated …

SYNOPSIS: While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself. REVIEW: There’s a saying. It goes a little something like this. “You are what you eat.” This phrase is meant to get people to eat healthier. If you …

SYNOPSIS: An intruder breaks into the home of an unsuspecting family in order to make a home made murder film. REVIEW: It’s a well known fact that I’m not a fan of found footage films. They’ve steadily devolved from something just barely palatable to simply execrable. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Just because you spent two …

SYNOPSIS: A rookie cop’s 1st shift in the last night of a closing police station alone turns into a living nightmare. The plot echoes John Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ but with supernatural twist. REVIEW: “All hail to the King of Hell” One of the great things about the horror genre is that while we may have to sift thru …

SYNOPSIS: A young melancholic teen encounters a strange smiling man on the street at night when taking a walk. REVIEW: More short films today! Our selection this time is THE SMILING MAN, written and directed by Adrian Huff based on a story by Keoni Chavez. Mr. Huff plays a college student who seems to be trapped in a pit of …

SYNOPSIS: A few times each century, humanity dodges an apocalyptic bullet and in 1969 that bullet was Charles Manson. But in Honky Holocaust’s alternate universe, the Manson Family succeeds in igniting the apocalyptic race war and attempt to claim their ‘rightful’ place as the rulers of the world. The infamous cult instead finds that the outcome of Helter Skelter is …

SYNOPSIS: The bloodthirsty bounty hunter Mack Blaster slaughters his way through a nihilistic future world to finally fight his greatest opponent Ringo “Der Schlächter” Mack Man. REVIEW: yet more short films for you, kids! This one makes me really happy. Today we have MACK BLASTER: THE WORLD IN THE CROSSHAIRS (Mack Blaster – Die Welt im Fadenkreuz), written and directed …

SYNOPSIS: Upon learning that many former Nazis returned to their pre-war lives with no penalty, an ambitious German prosecutor (Alexander Fehling) vows to bring them to justice. REVIEW: I love a good history-based movie. “Labyrinth of Lies”, directed by Giulio Ricciarelli is a a 2014 German film  released in the USin 2016. The film at its core tells us of …

SYNOPSIS: A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion. REVIEW: More short films! An American film this time, INVADERS by writer/director Jason Kupfer. This is a crowdfunded project, and also an award winner at Slamdance and Fantasticfest among other festivals. We have two guys in a car, gearing up for an apparent …

SYNOPSIS: Expressway To Your Skull is the story of Ed and Amy, a thrill-seeking couple in their 20’s desperately searching for a way to fix their strapped existence. With a stash of drugs, backpacks and half-cocked enthusiasm Ed and Amy hit the road… but as they arrive in the woods their idyllic 3-day trip slowly starts to turn into a …

SYNOPSIS: Several teenage girls hear voices as a group of well-meaning Jesus lovers take it upon themselves to “help” a friend whose mood swings appear to be more sinister than they would like. REVIEW: What is it about teenagers, house parties and plastic red drinking cups? Is it a rite of passage? Is it just that red cups are the …

SYNOPSIS: A psychotic killer, known as the Laughing Mask, terrorizes a community with a series of seemingly unconnected and violent murders. As the body count rises, a local detective and the husband of the killer’s first victim work to stop the Laughing Mask, even though they don’t understand his underlying motive. REVIEW: The film opens with the Laughing Mask, an …