SYNOPSIS: An investigation into a camping trip gone wrong turns into a fight for survival when a team, including a brilliant primate specialist and led by a ruthless television producer, must come to grips with the possible existence of Bigfoot.
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Film Review: Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On the last flight of a transatlantic passenger airliner, a priest, a rabbi and the airline crew team together to save a plane from a pandemic of demonic possessions. REVIEW: Until now, I had thought the singularly distinctive example of the supernatural horror/air disaster mish-mosh was 1973’s made-for-tv The Horror at 37,000 Feet. Essentially it was …
Read More »TV Review: Creepshow (TV Series) (2019-2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The fictional Creepshow comic books come to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales hosted by the silent Creepshow ghoul. REVIEW: The Creepshow franchise has always been one that demanded repeat viewings of its classic campy anthology horror stories. The tales were inventive and yet diverse enough that they flowed from one tale into the …
Read More »Film Review: Two Evil Eyes (1990)
SYNOPSIS: George Romero and Dario Argento’s modern takes on two of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short stories, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and “The Black Cat,” both set in Pittsburgh in the 1990s. REVIEW: Review-I am a bit of a literature nerd (I have a degree in English and have taught middle and high school Language Arts …
Read More »Film Review: Hoax (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An investigative team travels deep into the remote Colorado wilderness after a group of young campers are viciously murdered by what may be Bigfoot. REVIEW: In an industry where horror themes repeat themselves several times a year, I have come to respect a few that deliver on a pretty constant basis. Having been thru a small …
Read More »Film Review: Creepshow (1982)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Five tales of terror are presented. The first deals with a demented old man returning from the grave to get the Father’s Day cake his murdering daughter never gave him. The second is about a not-too-bright farmer discovering a meteor that turns everything into plant-life. The third is about a vengeful husband burying his wife and her …
Read More »Film Review: Tales of Halloween (2015) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ten short stories revolve around ghosts, ghouls, monsters, the devil, aliens, and ax murderers who terrorize a suburb on Halloween night. REVIEW: Vignette horror films seem to be hit or miss. Dead of Night (1945) tends to be the film by which most other films are measured with its five tales (not all of them are …
Read More »Film review: Death House (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During an exclusive tour, a power breakdown inside a secret prison known as the Death House sends two agents fighting through a labyrinth of horrors while being pursued by a ruthless army of roaming inmates. As they fight to escape, the agents push toward the lowest depths of the facility where they learn a supernatural group …
Read More »Film Review: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman is terrorized by an unknown stalker and must take matters into her own hands when the police refuse to do anything to stop him. REVIEW: Strangely enough I had never even heard of Someone’s Watching Me! until I watched it recently (which is odd because John Carpenter wrote and directed it and I am …
Read More »Film Review: Just Desserts: The Making of ‘Creepshow’ – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero’s 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion. REVIEW: The July 2016 North American blu-ray release of Just Desserts: The Making of ‘Creepshow’, filmmaker Michael Felsher’s feature-length chronicle of the creation of the classic 1982 anthology film, was, and is, cause for celebration for fans of director George …
Read More »Film Review: Swamp Thing (1982) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “Doctor Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species – a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive …
Read More »Film Review: Just Desserts: The Making of ‘Creepshow’ (2007)
SYNOPSIS: Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero’s 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion REVIEW: Fans of the movie “Creepshow” may or may not have seen this release when it originated in 2007 (which was previously only available overseas in repackaged formats). When I first received this, my thought was …why a dedicated release …
Read More »Film Review: Tales Of Halloween (2015)
Synopsis: Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents. It seems that horror anthologies are back in vogue as of late. The success of films like V/H/S (2012) and its 2 sequels, The ABC’s Of Death …
Read More »Film Review: Escape From New York (1981)
SYNOPSIS: “The year is 1997. New York City has been turned into a maximum security prison colony, when the American crime rate grows high. New York City is surrounded by a wall and the bridge is mined making sure no convict escapes from New York. Snake Plissken, a one-eyed former soldier turned bank robber arrives at New York after being …
Read More »Film Review: Open House (1987)
SYNOPSIS: Someone is killing off nubile real estate agents. A psychologist doing a therapy talk show begins getting calls from the perpetrator, and cooperates with the police to try and stop him. Unfortunately, his lover is a real estate agent, and when it becomes clear that the madman is getting information for his kills from her discarded home listings, they …
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