The team behind the world’s first Swissploitation movie today announced that cult US screenwriter, actor, director and producer Trent Haaga has joined Mad Heidi’s scriptwriting team. The award-winning Haaga has been involved in over 100 films in a long and sometimes controversial career. Mad Heidi is being produced by IRON SKY producer Tero Kaukomaa and Amateur Teen’s and Paradise War’s …
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Film Review: Terror Firmer (1999)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As a team of filmmakers attempt to get their latest movie made, a serial killer strikes, bumping off the cast and crew one by one. Can they survive for long enough to complete filming on the project? And can Lloyd Kaufman really manage to pull off a sensitive portrayal of a blind man? The answer to …
Read More »Film Review: 616: Paranormal Incident (2013)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Special Agent Watts and his Investigation Unit are called to the derelict Woodburrow Prison he thinks it’s business as usual. But there’s nothing usual about Woodburrow. A mysterious woman is found attempting to flee the scene and things begin to spiral out of control as an evil force picks the team off one by one. …
Read More »Film Review: He (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A very bizarre and paranoid man sees, does, and hears a lot of weird things as his miserable wife slowly goes insane and plans to kill him. REVIEW: First off, let me just say that I love low-budget and independent films of all kinds. I think that most independent films are a million times better than …
Read More »Film Review: Girl on the Third Floor (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans. REVIEW: Well, it seems someone has finally harnessed the power of “ick” and applied it to a ghost story in a way that makes disgusting sense. Don Koch moves into a …
Read More »Film Review: Slices (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the tradition of Creepshow, this macabre anthology features five short horror films, including “The Exterminator,” in which a ruthless businessman gets a taste of his own medicine — and then some — when he’s abducted by his own hatchet man. Other eerie tales include “Turnout,” “The Range,” “Night Scream” and “Dead Letters,” in which a …
Read More »Film Review: 68 Kill (2017)
SYNOPSIS: A punk-rock after hours about femininity, masculinity and the theft of $68,000. REVIEW: There seems to be a trend as of late that I’m really digging coming out of the film industry, this trend of course being a rush of balls-out cinema pieces fueled towards violence, comedy, and chaotic absurdity. With movies such as “Mayhem” and “Brawl in Cell …
Read More »Film Review: Killjoy Goes to Hell (2012)
SYNOPSIS: The demon clown Killjoy is on trial in Hell! Having failed in his last outing to claim his victim’s soul, he must face the devil himself in Hell’s courtroom and prove that he’s evil and worthy of a demon. His only hope is the testimony of his last victim and a trial by combat. Killjoy’s murderous minions Batty Boop, …
Read More »Film Review: Cheap Thrills (2014)
SYNOPSIS: A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a local bar. REVIEW: Echoing classic episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents & Tales From The Crypt, director E.L. Katz‘ black comedy Cheap Thrills is a nasty little thriller that serves as a spotlight …
Read More »Film Review: Psycho Holocaust (2009)
SYNOPSIS: On a scorching summer day 6 friends venture into the mountains for one more vacation before their lives change forever. Unbeknownst to them, their lives would forever be changed anyway. In the shadows awaits a pack of the most evil, the most vile, rejects of humanity that’s addicted to violence and thirsty for blood! This is Psycho Holocaust… REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: Gag (2006)
SYNOPSIS: Two professional thieves break into a house in search of a safe, only to discover a man beaten beyond recognition, tied down to torn mattress in a hidden room. They decide to help, only to become trapped by a serial killer whose torture methods will have them begging for death. REVIEW: Gag opens up with a dark scene of …
Read More »Film Review: Chop (2010)
SYNOPSIS: Lance Reed is forced by a psychotic stranger to confront his duplicitous past. Seeking retribution for a crime, the man forces Lance to reveal his inner most secrets by systematically removing his limbs. REVIEW: It’s pretty amazing how great films can somehow just glide under the radar. In a way, it’s sad since some of these films end up …
Read More »Film Review: Killjoy 3 (2010)
SYNOPSIS: The demon clown Killjoy is resurrected once again, but this time he is not given the name of his victim and is trapped in his realm. Using a magic mirror he lures four unsuspecting college students into his realm where he can have his macabre fun! A mysterious man returns and we finally discover who Killjoy’s true target is! …
Read More »Film Review: Debbie Rochon Confidential: My Years in Tromaville Exposed! (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Debbie Rochon is not just a world famous Scream Queen but she is the Queen of Independent Cinema and has appeared in more films than all the Ellen Pages and Parker Poseys put together. From her start as a Tromette along side Troma founder and creator of THE TOXIC AVENGER, Lloyd Kaufman, to her starring roles in some of …
Read More »Film Review: Jessicka Rabid (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional family, the Hoffman’s have been living their lives in a veil of secrecy. Incest, rape are a part of their every day lives. A product of which, is Jessicka. After years of nameless abuse of her family and neighbors, Jessicka has been reduced to something less than human. She’s more of a family pet than she is …
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