WATCH NOW Shifting to a new place can be overwhelming since it is a different setting. This dimension is explored in the latest horror film ‘The Djinn’, which tells the tale of an evil genie haunting a mute young boy and is one of the most spine-chilling aspects of it. Although the premise itself leaves […]
WATCH NOW Joey, a punk rock musician bet his girlfriend Eva that if she proved she truly knew how to read tarot cards and conduct séances, he would quit his band for a year and join a church choir. If he wins, however, she would spend the next year opening his show by dancing in
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WATCH NOW Silent Retreat makes an effort to combine two different subgenres, and while some things are achieved, others are not. Tricia Lee has done a great job making a very atmospheric film which, as a psychological horror film early on, works better with more emphasis on the silence than eventually becomes an attention grabber
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WATCH NOW This exploitative film is a sequel to 1971’s The Big Doll House, and it was made by the same person, Jack Hill, who is a very well-known figure in this genre. He worked with the same themes, actors, and styles, and he also focused on similar elements in this film. The filmmaker is
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WATCH NOW Let me make it clear that I will not be addressing the older Propaganda film “The Silent Scream” which focuses on Pro-Life movements. But I must say that when I was much younger, I used to think the content in the film was medically accurate and terrifying. Enough of the past, now let’s
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WATCH NOW Don’t Leave Home has been termed an Irish Catholic Get Out and also merits comparisons to The Wicker Man (the original, not the messy remake). However, those slow-burning movies eventually build toward four-alarm fires in terms of both satire and suspense, whereas Michael Tully’s feature is content to smolder. This intriguing tale of
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WATCH NOW Movies featuring the Jersey Devil seem to be strangely sparse. Out of all the tales of cryptids and terrifying monsters lurking around, the story of the Leeds Devil really does seem to step far out of the limelight. Every now and again, a movie appears featuring Bigfoot, or some giant sea creature, or
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WATCH NOW Just in time for Halloween, the folks at Visual Vengeance surprised me with a pair of Blu-rays to review, Despiser and Kung Fu Rascals. Being a fan of writer/director Philip J. Cook’s, recent films, Pungo: A Witch’s Tale and Ghost Planet as well as the earlier Invader, I put Despiser on first. Gordon
WATCH NOW There’s plenty of intrigue on the New Mexico ranch our heroine is shunted off to in “Kepler’s Dream,” but little suspense is wrung from it in this tepid family drama adapted from a well-reviewed YA novel by Juliet Bell. Opening in a dozen markets nationwide simultaneously with a VOD launch, the film is
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WATCH NOW So, I just finished watching Psychos, written and directed by Sandy Chukhadarian, and I’m left with one of those ‘WTF did I just watch?’ buzzes. I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this film once it started. The beginning of the story made me feel a little unsure,
