THE BURNING MOON (1992) It’s always disheartening when you sit down to watch a movie that has notoriety and, by the end, you find yourself more bored than shocked – a good example is A Serbian Film. This is also…
DEF BY TEMPTATION (1990) Young minister-in-training, Joel (James Bond III), while visiting his childhood friend, K (Kadeem Hardison), in New York City gets caught up in sinful desire in the form of a demonic seductress known as Temptation (Cynthia Bond).…
V/H/S (2012) The first of the low-fi found footage anthology series offers five unsettling tales of terror from a handful of filmmakers, including Ti West and Adam Wingard. A group of petty criminals are hired to break into a remote…
ALIEN PREDATORS (1987) Bland American tourists traveling through the Spanish countryside are beset by parasitic alien beings that have taken over the minds of the locals and turned them into killers. It sounds like a rip-off of John McTiernan’s Predator,…
ANGEL HEART (1987) Interesting, but sedate, filming of William Hjortsberg’s book, Falling Angel, about 1950s gumshoe, Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), who’s hired by the strange Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down a former client who disappeared years earlier.…
DEADSTREAM (2022) If The Blair Witch Project and Evil Dead 2 had a baby it might look like Deadstream, a funny, reverent, and highly inventive little scare show. To facilitate his comeback, disgraced internet celebrity, Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter, co-director),…
DASHCAM (2022) Towards the end of Dashcam, the protagonist, Annie (Annie Hardy), asks, “God, why do you hate me?” Anyone who watches this movie longer than a few minutes will immediately know the answer to that question. Annie is such…
BURNING BRIGHT (2010) Intense little flick about a teenager (Briana Evigan) and her autistic brother (Charlie Tahan) trapped inside their large house with a hungry bengal tiger during a hurricane. The plot sounds like a silly B-movie from the ’50s,…
BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL (1974) A splattery slasher/psychodrama about a troubled drifter, Gilles (Paul Naschy), who finds work as a handyman – and all-around stud – for three colorful sisters at their hilltop manor in the remote Spanish…
DEATH WARMED UP (1984) An inventive and highly energetic New Zealand splatter flick about a young man named Michael (Michael Hurst), who’s given an experimental mind control serum by fiendish Dr. Howell (Gary Day), which results in Michael killing his…