Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS; A girl leaves home in pursuit of revenge, only to find things are not what they seem. REVIEW: Warning: Spoilers Ahead After looking at the promo material and pictures of this film I have to admit I wasn’t thinking it would be a memorable watch. However, Girl really surprised me.
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Film Review: No Escape (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. REVIEW: A story needs to have characters that are relatable to the viewer. Likeable to them, so they …
Read More »Film Review: The Special (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Suspecting his wife of infidelity, Jerry follows his friend down a dark rabbit hole into a horror landscape of addiction. REVIEW: Of all the sub-genres in horror, body horror is one that has provided very mixed results in movies over the years. A fairly hard genre to define, many people have differing opinions on what constitutes …
Read More »Film Review: Why Haven’t They Fixed the Cameras Yet? (short film) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman leaves her holiday work party late to discover the security cameras are still broken. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have WHY HAVEN’T THEY FIXED THE CAMERAS YET?, written and directed by Travis White, based on the short story WHY IS IT ALWAYS SO DARK IN HERE by Miss Directed Souls. Our story …
Read More »Film Review: Camping Fun (short film) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four friends set out to a remote getaway in Texas, unaware that they are being trailed by a sinister cult. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have CAMPING FUN, written and directed by Thomas Burke and David Eimer. Ok so let’s get this out of the way right now…this is one of those “found footage” …
Read More »Film Review: The Next Room (short film) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Alone and in his own home, a man awakes to a strange sound coming from the next room. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE NEXT ROOM, written and directed by (and starring) Kenneth Livitski. A man wakes up in the early hours to hear strange noises coming from the other room. Of course …
Read More »Film Review: Eternally (short film) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie love story created in quarantine with Unreal Engine 4. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have ETERNALLY, written, directed, animated, and scored by Tim Montijo. Some of you may recognize his name. He’s created FX and music scores for films for 30 years. This film is his second go at an animation program …
Read More »Film Review: The Pale Door (2020) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Directed by Aaron B. Koontz (Camera Obscura, Scare Package) who also co-wrote the script with Cameron Burns (Camera Obscura) and Keith Lansdale (“Creepshow”), THE PALE DOOR stars Devin Druid (“13 Reasons Why”), Zachary Knighton (“Happy Endings”), Noah Segan (Knives Out), Stan Shaw (Monster Squad), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills), Bill Sage (We Are What We Are) and Melora Walters (Magnolia). The film is presented and executive produced by Joe R. Lansdale, the writer of Bubba Ho-Tep & Cold In July.
Read More »Film Review: Amityville Island (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals in a secret women’s prison. REVIEW: I must have been a naughty boy, because this last batch of movies feels like the equivalent of getting coal in my stocking. I …
Read More »TV Review: Etheria (Season III) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 2016 was the third year of Etheria, a film festival for the best new horror, science fiction, action, fantasy, and thriller films directed by women. These are the films. All the shorts in this Season 2016 release are official selections that played at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California to a live audience on June …
Read More »Film Review: Hunter Hunter (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Joseph and his family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers, but their tranquility is threatened when they think they are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf, and Joseph leaves them behind to track it.” REVIEW: Hunter Hunter was written and directed by Shawn Linden. I am not a fan of fur, …
Read More »Film Review: The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there’s no such thing as werewolves. REVIEW: Very good but no “Silver Bullet,” to be fair, it doesn’t try to be your typical werewolf …
Read More »Film Review: Spell (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon. REVIEW: Marquis (Omari Hardwick) is making every effort to be the man his father …
Read More »Film Review: Night at the London Film Academy (short film) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Whilst working a night shift at the London Film Academy (LFA) a cleaner comes across a bloody heart and a series of supernatural events begin to occur.
Read More »Film Review: The Retreat (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man finds himself alone and lost after a horrifying encounter with a monster during a backpacking trip into the Adirondack High Peaks. Now, he must fight for his life, and sanity, as he battles the evil Native American legend, The Wendigo. REVIEW: The concept of a Wendigo waiting in the forest for two unsuspecting climbers …
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