Tag Archives: 2017

SYNOPSIS: Six college students go into the wetlands to find their missing professor after he takes off in search of the mythical and deadly monster known as the ‘Swamp Freak’. REVIEW: Some college professors may or may not have disappeared in a swamp area that is home to a local legend known as the Swamp Freak. Students wander into the …

SYNOPSIS: Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience – giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife. REVIEW: Sony Pictures, sigh.  I have zero faith in Sony Pictures.  More than half of what it peddles out is unwatchable, …

REVIEW: Tom is a short film running in its entirety in under 8 minutes. Justin William Houghton plays the lead Tom and shares writer and directing credit with Joshua Nicholas Goodman. I feel a need to add the flow of the film and the editing was done very well. In a world of technology voyeurism is an easy venture. This …

  SYNOPSIS: Two teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. In the process, they learn that neither is what she seems to be, and that a murder might solve both of their problems. REVIEW: Director: Cory Finley Writer: Cory Finley Starring: Anya- Taylor Joy, Olivia Cooke, and Anton Yelchin The still shot from …

SYNOPSIS: A group of college co-eds embark on a weekend-long camping trip as part of a Cultural Anthropology project to research an internet creepypasta urban legend. REVIEW: Orson Welles was an amazing human being.  In his mid-twenties he co-wrote, directed, and starred in one of the greatest movies ever made.  Bryan Brewer, the writer, director, and star of “The Raking,” …

SYNOPSIS: A teen girl discovers a magical box that will grant her seven wishes. As she uses her wishes for personal gain, bad things begin to happen to those around her. She discovers an evil entity lives inside the box and may be behind the gruesome deaths REVIEW: Director: John R. Leonetti. Starring: Joey King, Ryan Philippe, Ki Hong Lee, …

SYNOPSIS: Candace is possessed by a demon, and her family has tried everything to save her. Could her last hope be a priest with his own dark secrets? REVIEW: “I honestly see why Orson Welles ate his fat ass to death.” Superbad (2007).  Surprisingly, that’s what comes to mind when I think about the current state of the exorcism genre, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An ex-soldier with a criminal past takes refuge in the woods. A demonic figure seeks the seed of killers and the blood of the damned to feed his mandrake garden. DIS is an infernal descent into the root of the mandrake legend and a man who wanders too close to that legend and the unnamable terror …

Synopsis: A mysterious girl appears in the middle of a southwestern desert. As she acclimates to her new life, she discovers that she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.

SYNOPSIS: A group of documentary filmmakers are filming a TV special about the events which occurred at the famous and mysterious abandoned Cain Hill asylum many years earlier, and the unexplained abductions and murders that have occurred at the site since then. The group soon learn that one of the inmates never left Cain Hill at all. REVIEW: Cain Hill …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers capture a man-eating monster. REVIEW: From the writer-director Giddens Ko comes a pitch-dark horror comedy about monsters of various form. I only call Mon Mon Mon Monsters a comedy because that is the way it has been sold and advertised. Looking at the promo images you get a sense of a possibly …

SYNOPSIS: A college student finds herself trapped in a time loop that sees her brutally murdered over and over again every day. Will she be able to find out who her killer is and escape her predicament or is she doomed to relive the experience for the rest of her life?  REVIEW: I know that Happy Death Day has gotten a lot of positive buzz …

SYNOPSIS: A rebellious teenager finds herself grounded one night and in addition to having to deal with her weird grandmother she also has to contend with a number of disturbing phone calls that she receives from an unknown caller. After using a ton of drugs things go from bad to worse for her when a man claiming to work for her …

SYNOPSIS: When Dani, an innocent southern girl, vacations to Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life, she learns that escaping her past isn’t as easy as she hoped. REVIEW: The filmmakers behind VooDoo are not good people, and I don’t mean that as a backhanded compliment or to arouse interest. This film is the definition of incompetent. The people …

SYNOPSIS: When a law student uncovers chilling secrets and places her life at risk, a grieving detective gets assigned to her case. REVIEW: Director: Alberto G. Rodriguez Writer: Alberto G. Rodriguez Starring: Leila Almas, Jaime Zevallos, Manny M. Hernandez, Eric Roberts The Summoning is the story of law student Rachel—played by Leila Almas (American Sharia)—and Detective Silva—played by Jaime Zevallos …