Darlin’ Movie Review Overview: A feral teenage girl is taken into strict Catholic church care and prepared for her First Holy Communion.Director: Pollyanna McIntoshProducer: Andrew van den HoutenStarring: Lauryn Canny, Bryan Batt, Nora-Jane Noone Gavin’s Review The path to this film is long and winding through multiple mediums going back almost forty years. In summary, …
True Fiction Move Review Avery Malone (Sara Garcia, Reign), a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she’s hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad (John Cassini, Se7en). Whisked away to Caleb’s remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in …
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Rondo Movie Review Played July 27th – Directed by Drew Barnhardt, USA A kinky sex proposition devolves into a chain of murder, sex, and revenge. And more murder. Putting any of this film into words is almost doing it a disservice. Beyond “holy crap” or similar gasps of disbelief, can we really sum up what …
Pledge Movie Review Played July 24th – Directed by Daniel Robbins A group of weird, unwanted freshmen are offered a chance to pledge what they believe is an exclusive fraternity. Often times, we give a lot of credit to filmmakers who do the unexpected, who try to be original. And, of course, we should. But …
The Night Eats the World, Directed by Dominique Rocher, France Review: The Night Eats the World I know what you’re thinking: the zombie subgenre has run its course, it has all been done, and all we have left are low-budget derivatives and witty satires. And you would be right. But somehow, THE NIGHT EATS THE …
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Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss Movie Review Original title: Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss by Passing Through the Gateway Chosen by the Holy Storsh A small-town couple (Kate Micucci and Sam Huntington) finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there is one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides …
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The Russian Bride (2018), Directed by Michael S. Ojeda Gavin’s Review: The Russian Bride The first thing viewers are likely to notice about The Russian Bride (affiliate link) is the slightly lower production value, at least as far as the camera / lighting is concerned. And there is a scene early on involving flames that …
The Captain Movie Review Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a German army deserter, stumbles across an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform during the last, desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he stole only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whosoever that happens …
J.D.’s Revenge Review A docile law student (Glynn Turman) is possessed by a 1940s mobster (David McKnight) in mid-1970s New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister. There probably are not a lot of blaxploitation-horror-crime films out there. You might get horror-blaxploitation (“Blacula” and “Blackenstein”) and you get …
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse Movie Review A killer (with impressive red pants) is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering deviants, prostitutes and members of the underworld. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body. The script was written by Paul Naschy, who was influenced (much …
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