Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A carnivorous alien creature is accidentally beamed to a family’s house from space via their new satellite dish and goes about eating everyone in sight. REVIEW: I remember watching TerrorVision when I was a kid with my cousin Marty on VHS one night back in the summer of 1986 (if memory serves me correctly, we also …
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Film Review: The Axe Murders of Villisca (2016)
SYNOPSIS: ‘Villisca’ is a ghost story set in the actual house of the notorious and still unsolved 1912 ax murders. Three outcast teenagers break into the house in search of answers, but discover something far beyond their worst fears. REVIEW: “The Axe Murders of Villisca” is so close to being a good movie. It has decent, if not quite great, …
Read More »Film Review: Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
SYNOPSIS: Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent from the original Fright Night must face more vampires out for revenge. REVIEW: Sometimes more of the same isn’t necessarily a bad thing and “Fright Night Part 2” has enough new blood mixed in with what made the first one so enjoyable. Maintaining that balance between seriousness and humor which worked in the first …
Read More »Film Review: South of Heaven (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Roy Coop, Navy midshipman, returns home to his brother’s apartment full of optimism and good cheer. That is until he his mistaken for his brother Dale, who seems to have gotten himself mixed up with the wrong kind of people. People like Mad Dog who kidnap the daughters of extremely powerful, extremely vengeful men. And his day is only …
Read More »Film Review: Elsewhere (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Small-town life goes topsy-turvy when young girls start disappearing out of thin air. But things get uncomfortably personal when Sarah (Anna Kendrick) learns that her best friend, Jillian (Tania Raymonde), has joined the ranks of the missing. The trouble is, only cryptic clues remain: Jillian’s diary, a puzzling message that was sent from her cell phone — and Sarah’s …
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