SYNOPSIS: On January 18, 2003, police, alerted by a frantic 911 call from a distraught pair of teenage girls, arrived at the girls Toronto area town house to find their mother dead. It appeared the 44-year-old alcoholic, having slipped into a booze-and-pill stupor, drowned in her own bathwater. The death was ruled accidental by the authorities. In the months that …
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Dark Star Hollow (2017)
SYNOPSIS: A modern-day Faust. David Sinclair makes a deal with the devil for the souls of Bright Star Hollow, but does not finish the job. Forty years later, he is brought back to finish the job, and nothing’s stopping him this time.
Read More »Film Review: Little Red Devil (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jimmy is a twenty-five year old loser who lives with his Bible-thumping mother (who was actually a devil worshiper when she was younger). He spends his days stealing from others, banging a hooker, and searching for his long lost girlfriend who just seemed to fall off of the face of the Earth a year ago or …
Read More »Film Review: 7E (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A young man struggles with unexplained events inside of a New York apartment where tenants are not who they appear to be. REVIEW: When a title like 7E comes up it instinctively makes me thing of movies such as 1408 and Apartment 1303, which are movies where the rooms themselves are haunted by a paranormal entity. This is not …
Read More »Film Review: A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl (and her dad’s girlfriend) is kidnapped and held prisoner by a deranged man who killed her mother in front of her years earlier. REVIEW: I’d heard of this movie and remember seeing it in the video store back in the day but never took a chance on it because it just didn’t really …
Read More »Film Review: Born of Earth (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Over centuries humans have been mysteriously disappearing with no explanations, just hushed whispers in the dark. On the surface Prophet Hills seems like a perfect place to live and raise a family, but Danny Kessler (Baldwin) has seen better days. This is one man’s journey to find the culprit of the ultimate sacrifice he’s endured. He …
Read More »Film Review: Freeway (1988)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America’s highways.
Read More »Film Review: Boy Wonder (2010)
SYNOPSIS: A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean’s dual life wears on …
Read More »Film Review: The Ninth Gate (1999)
SYNOPSIS: A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones. REVIEW: While it might seem that the draw to this curious film is the A-lister Johnny Depp, it’s root of interest lies within the director himself Roman Polanski who many on us flocked to see based …
Read More »Find Out What’s Happening In 7E
On Dec. 10th we will all find out what the hell has been going on in 7E. Creepy apartment buildings have been a genre staple and Virgil Films has got a new one for us. As I mentioned it’s titled 7E and it goes just like this: “Inside an old New York apartment, Clyde (Brendan Sexton III; Welcome to the …
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