Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him. REVIEW: The anthology horror movie; a sub-genre that’s seen more than its fair share of weird, wonderful and – let’s face it – pretty wonky efforts over the years. These go back much further than one might expect, with …
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Film Review: Alone in the Dark (2005)
SYNOPSIS: A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results. REVIEW: I had been dreading this. Ever since I agreed to reviewing movies that are largely considered bad, there was one director whose work I feared having to review. I had a feeling, this sense of impending doom, that it was going to happen. Sure enough, my …
Read More »Film Review: Way of the Wicked (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Five years ago young Robbie was involved in an altercation with some classmates that were bullying him and his friend Heather that resulted in one of them dying under mysterious and possibly supernatural circumstances. Now he’s back and anyone who pisses him off ends up being involved in an accident or dying in some horrible fashion. Is he really …
Read More »Film Review: The River Murders (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A homicide detective, Ray Liotta, while investigating a series of murders becomes the prime suspect when the FBI uncovers his close personal ties to all the victims. REVIEW: One of my all-time favorite films is Martin Scorcese’s “Goodfellas”. That film made me a life-long Ray Liotta fan. He has had a bit of a rocky career, even sometimes going …
Read More »Film Review: Interview With The Vampire (1994)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “It hadn’t even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife in childbirth. Both his wife and the infant died, and now he has lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night – a …
Read More »Film Review: Heathers (1989)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: At Westburg High, you’re either a Heather or a nobody. And while Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) may not be named Heather, she’s a Heather in spirit, waging battles in the full-scale popularity war. But just when it all gets to be too much, she meets mysterious newcomer Jason (Christian Slater), who offers her the perfect — …
Read More »Film Review: Stranded (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Four isolated astronauts on board a bio-dome space craft, experience a ghostly intercession after a meteor storm, leading to paranoia, fear and death. REVIEW: Director – Roger Christian Starring – Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio Stranded is a typical sci-fi B-movie. Nothing too terribly great, nothing too terribly bad. What’s kind of fascinating is the impressive roster that …
Read More »Film Review: The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
SYNOPSIS: A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends. REVIEW: One of the true 1985 essential films of that year, “The Legend of Billie Jean” is a movie that has taken quite some time to arrive for viewers (let alone bluray). The DVD itself wasn’t released until year 2011 with its …
Read More »Christian Slater Shows You the WAY OF THE WICKED
Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, announces the DVD and Blu-ray release of Way of the Wicked. The thriller is directed by Kevin Carraway (7 Below) and stars Christian Slater (Stranded, True Romance), Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand, Snatch), Emily Tennant (Juno, Mr. Young) and Jake Croker. Way of the Wicked will be available on DVD for an SRP of $27.97 …
Read More »Film Review: Playback (2012)
SYNOPSIS: A cop investigates the case of a missing local teen, though he discovers a dark secret that has been unleashed in his town, and an evil spirit that will stop at nothing to find its heir. REVIEW: Camcorders seem to get more evil by the day. Harlan Diehl was surely effected when he murdered his family and went insane. …
Read More »Film Review: Bullet to the Head (2012)
SYNOPSIS: The unlikely duo of a New Orleans contract killer and Washington D.C. cop band together to find the one that killed each of their respective partners. REVIEW: Directed By: Walter Hill Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater At age sixty seven Stallone shows he’s still got it and has no intention of letting up …
Read More »Freaky Deaky with Christian Slater coming to DVD in February
BILLY BURKE, CHRISTIAN SLATER & MICHAEL JAI WHITE LEAD AN ALL-STAR ENSEMBLE CAST IN THIS TRIPPY CRIME CAPER BASED ON THE ELMORE LEONARD BEST-SELLING NOVEL FREAKY DEAKY -Street Date: February 26, 2013 Chris Mankowski (Billy Burke) used to be on the Detroit Police bomb squad, but it’s not until he’s transferred to sex crimes that he gets a real taste …
Read More »A Poster and a Trailer for PLAYBACK
Just caught wind of this one today and I’m liking the trailer a lot. It’s called PLAYBACK and it goes something like this: While digging into their town’s infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir. The …
Read More »Christian Slater featured horror film ‘Playback’ acquired by Magnet Releasing
Magnet Releasing takes US Rights to PLAYBACK From Celluloid Nightmares The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today they have acquired US rights to PLAYBACK, a frightening horror film featuring Christian Slater, directed by Michael Nickles. Magnet will release PLAYBACK through its Ultra VOD program in February, launching the film on all digital VOD platforms prior …
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