A pair of sisters head off into a cabin in the woods, armed only with a video camera and a suspiciously muscular psychic to try and contact the spirit of an old boyfriend, a soldier who they think was killed in Iraq although his body was never found. That’s the basic premise of Dead Voices, […]
Homewrecker, as the title suggests, is the story of one woman wrecking the homelife of another. To do this, director Zach Gayne uses all the tricks at his disposal: psychological manipulation, physical abuse, adultery, and, in this particular case, a pair of really sharp scissors. What he doesn’t use, though, is any sense of subtlety. […]
It starts on a bizarre note. A man and a woman are running for their lives through the woods, pursued by a killer wearing wrestling boots. The man is dressed in black shorts and a black t-shirt, like a pale goth guy heading to the beach. The woman is naked, except for her combat boots. […]
Three young women are on their way to a concert of heavy metal music. On the way, they stop at a convenience store for some junk food and an ominous warning from the old man behind the counter. Back on the road, a mysterious van passes them on a lonely stretch of backroad and the […]
The title is the best thing about Ouija Shark. It’s everything the movie is not: it’s clever, it’s funny and it makes you want more. The poster is kind of cool, too, and the tagline — Gonna Need a Bigger Board — is a groaner, but not in a terrible way. Everything else about Ouija […]
A wanna-be playwright and his young bride accept an invitation to an exclusive dinner party at the palatial home of a wealthy recluse hoping he will agree to back the writer’s latest play. They don’t know the man…or any of the other guests that will be attending the party. They just know that the last […]
Charles Bronson and Leatherface get into a fight. What sounds like a cheap joke or a bad meme is really just Cry Havoc, a cheap, bad movie written, directed, edited and shot by Rene Perez (The Punished) that features a Charles Bronson impersonator named Robert Bronzi as the hero and a joke shop Leatherface wannabe […]
Found footage films. You either love them or you don’t. That may sound like a bit of an oversimplification, and there are some exceptions that rise above the genre, but watch enough found footage films (a new one seems to get released every couple of days) and you will eventually find yourself on one side […]
Don’t make any plan for the immediate future after watching Among Them. You will be too busy thinking about everything you saw — or thought you saw — happening in the movie to be able to handle anything else. You may even want to set aside an extra 90 minutes of your time to watch […]
Looking for her dog in the backyard of her new home, a young single mom named India (Lois Wilkinson) discovers an antique Witchboard half-hidden in the undergrowth. She takes it into her home and, a few days later while having a glass of wine with her friend, Becca (Gabriella Calderone) decides to see if the […]
The first half-hour or so of Getaway feels very familiar. There are three menacing hillbilly serial killers living out in the woods and three nubile young women enjoying a weekend in a nearby cabin. What happens next seems pretty obvious, but director Lane Toran, who co-wrote the script with Jaclyn Betham, still manages to crank […]
A group of high school seniors, played by actors in their late 20s and early 30s, are being stalked and slain by a lumbering killer wearing a hoodie and a medieval plague doctor mask in The Lurker, a ponderous and predictable slasher film from director Eric Liberacki (Spoiled Fruit). The plot centers around fledgling thespian […]
There are good guys and bad guys in director Jamaal Burden’s Abominable, but the real heroes of the movie are Yaya Turner (music), Tony Fabian (Music Advisor) and Alex Ferguson (assistant engineer/music department) who make sure there isn’t a moment of silence in the film’s 78-minute run time. It is through their relentless efforts that […]
Why do studios make sequels? The cynical among us, who have sat through too many sucky seconds in a series say it’s a cheap and easy way for the studios to cash in: if it sold once, it will sell again. Why else was Exorcist II: The Heretic made? Then there are those rare sequels […]
For a movie set on a gorgeous tropical island where the host has guaranteed to make your greatest desire come true, Fantasy Island sure does start off in a dark way by showing us a young woman being chased through a jungle by armed thugs. She makes it to the safety of the main resort […]