Tag Archives: 2020

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An attractive young women enters the world of a serial killer by having sex with him and being strangled. She lives and her story intertwines with many other lonely characters in this self-professed horror film that revolves around sexual choking and homicide. REVIEW: Review: Watching a horror movie that looks homemade is fine but the impact …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled method actor gets carried away with his work on a role, playing a butcher. REVIEW: Method acting in cinema has produced some wildly varied results over the decades; for every Brando or De Niro delivering a mesmerising powerhouse of a performance that lights up the screen, there’s a dozen Jared Letos or Shia LaBeoufs …

SYNOPSIS: In the cold North a medical student embarks on a passionate affair with a respected eye surgeon. Captured under the spell of the charismatic doctor she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deception. Soon she meets the doctor’s mysterious rival, a handsome German specialist, and becomes embroiled in an obsessive love triangle. From …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of five friends get stuck in a flooding cave with a territorial crocodile. Their survival depends on their ability to outwit the creature and survive their troubled relationships. REVIEW: Directors: Andrew Traucki Writers: John Ridley, Sarah Smith Starring: Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Benjamin Hoetjes, Anthony J. Sharpe Black Water: Abyss (2020) is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A small-town journalist is sent to cover the opening of a controversial church. As the ministry digs its roots into the town and its residents, her life takes an unexpected, violent turn that will shake her foundations to their very core. REVIEW: Churches and religious cults gone amok have provided the backbone story to many movies …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Chris makes a life altering choice that comes back to not only haunt him, but seek REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have ETARTSAC, written and directed (and I believe also starring) Chris Magennis. So this was a strange one, and I’m not sure where to start. The story starts with our hero driving out …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have  ZOMBIPHOSATE, from Les Films Guacamole. The version I have is in french with no subtitles so I had to make the best of it. Louise, Sam, Alain and Sophie go for a hike in the forest. There is some sort of news break on the radio that seems to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. REVIEW: I’ll be honest, when I saw that Host takes place in COVID lockdown and is based off a painfully realistic Zoom call, I was dying to slam my …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield. REVIEW: Review: This film is on Amazon Prime Video currently, at time of writing this. I’m happy to review …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A teen’s life is turned upside down when he helps a world-famous pop star on the run to escape her violent pursuers.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, Christine (Maggie Q) and Neil Oliver (Luke Hemsworth) awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil’s camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The step on the housing ladder becomes the first step on the path to hell REVIEW: When the official Synopsis of a film is as barebones as the above, you know the film you’re about to watch isn’t going to be a good one, and in this sense, and this sense alone, Millennial Killer didn’t disappoint. …

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. REVIEW: In THE PALE DOOR, the Dalton gang finds shelter in a seemingly uninhabited ghost town after …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on. REVIEW: Ever watch a movie where, halfway through, you realize you utterly dislike …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rich man with a much younger wife and child finds himself stuck in a supernatural rental house in rural Wales, where his past comes to haunt him. REVIEW: Directors: David Koepp Writers: David Koepp (script) & Daniel Kehlmann (original novel) Starring: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Tiiu Essex, Colin Blumenau Blumhouse and Universal’s 2020 flick …