Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: features Ash, who – having gone from urban legend to hometown hero –discovers that he has a daughter. And, when Kelly witnesses a massacre with Ruby’s fingerprints all over it, she returns to warn Ash and Pablo REVIEW: For those of you who have been staying with me on this, I have been reporting on this …
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Film Review: Soft Matter (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two graffiti artists break into an abandoned research facility in hopes of creating an art installation. Instead, they stumble upon a team of demented researchers who are in the process of resurrecting an ancient sea creature.
Read More »Film Review: Truth or Dare (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare. (IMDB) REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Summer of 84 (2018)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A small town is terrorized by a serial killer that is knocking off young boys left and right, so fifteen-year-old Davey and his pals decide that they are going to figure out who the responsible party is and stop him before anyone else dies. It isn’t long before Davey suspects that his neighbor Mr. Mackey is the …
Read More »Film Review: Headgame (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive. REVIEW: Don’t mind the IV or the heart monitor or the machine that goes PING! …
Read More »Film Review: The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths. REVIEW: I must admit right off the bat to not being the biggest fan of stalk-and-slash gore fests as they are usually on the high level of predictability and carry an extreme nihilistic …
Read More »Film Review: The Nursery (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A babysitter is stalked by a frightening ominous presence in The Nursery, creaking its doors open this June from Uncork’d Entertainment. From filmmakers Christopher A. Micklos and Jay Sapiro comes the story of a young woman whose run-of-the-mill Saturday night quickly turns into a confrontation with unspeakable horror! When Ranae, a college student babysits for a family with …
Read More »Film Review: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. REVIEW: Director: Steven K. DeKnight Writer: Stephen K. DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, T. S. Nowlin Starring: John Boyega, Cailee Spaeny, Scott Eastwood, Charlie Day, Burn …
Read More »Film Review: Unsane (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear–but is it real or a product of her delusion? REVIEW: I enjoy movies that leave me thinking about the film afterwards. Maybe it is a character’s emotional arc that resonates with me. Or a moral dilemma that either …
Read More »Film Review: More Blood! (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A documentary that explores why society loves to watch death and gore in movies. REVIEW: The number one question a hardcore horror fan will be asked in their life (by non-horror fans) has got to be: Why do you watch that garbage? (Running a close second is probably “What is wrong with you?” but that’s a …
Read More »Film Review: A Taste of Phobia (2018)
SYNOPSIS: For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it. REVIEW: A Taste of Phobia is a horror anthology film put together through the cooperation of Vestra Pictures, Trash Arts Productions, and Artsploitation Films. The theme here, fairly obvious by the title of the film, …
Read More »Film Review: Beyond the Woods (2018)
SYNOPSIS: A gathering of friends is thrown into chaos by the opening of a mysterious fiery sinkhole near their secluded holiday home. REVIEW: Short version of this review: If Seinfeld was a movie, it would be Beyond the Woods. I’m not sure which is funnier. Longer version that will make the editor-in-chief happier: Here we go again with a batch …
Read More »Film Review: Curse of the Witch’s Doll (2018)
SYNOPSIS: After a series of inexplicable events, Adeline Gray believes a haunted doll possesses the soul of a vengeful Witch. To have any hope of being reunited with her missing daughter, she knows she must defeat the evil curse of The Witch’s Doll. REVIEW: Something tells me that any movie stating “This film is not associated with any other cinematic …
Read More »Film Review: Annihilation (2018)
SYNOPSIS: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don’t apply. REVIEW: Being dumped unceremoniously onto Netflix, after a brief cinematic run in the US, was not the fate director Alex Garland wanted for his sophomore film, Annihilation. Yes, the argument goes that it will open the feature up to …
Read More »Film Review: Selfie from Hell (short film) (2018)
SYNOPSIS: After her cousin comes to visit and falls ill, a woman starts to receive strange cell phone messages.
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