Zombi Child. 2020. Directed by Bertrand Bonello. Starring Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou, Adilé David, Ninon François, Mathilde Riu, Ginite Popote, and Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey. SYNOPSIS: Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her […]
Movie Review – Color Out of Space (2020)
Color Out of Space, 2020. Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Tommy Chong, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight, and Brendan Meyer. SYNOPSIS: A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic. What Richard Stanley’s Color Out Of Space best understands about Lovecraftian adaptations is an intentionally inexplicable source […]
Movie Review – The Sonata (2020)
The Sonata, 2020. Directed by Andrew Desmond. Starring Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer, Catherine Schaub-Abkarian, and Matt Barber. SYNOPSIS: A young violinist unravels her long lost father’s past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination. Music and horror belong forever entangled in a delicate dance that ends in pure unbridled evil. […]
Movie Review – The Wave (2020)
The Wave, 2020. Directed by Gille Klabin. Starring Justin Long, Tommy Flanagan, Katia Winter, Donald Faison, Sheila Vand, and Bill Sage. SYNOPSIS: Frank, an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he’s in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his co-worker, Jeff – but their […]
Movie Review – Troop Zero (2020)
Troop Zero. 2020. Directed by Bert & Bertie. Starring Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Allison Janney, Charlie Shotwell, Milan Ray, Johanna Colón, Bella Higginbotham, and Mike Epps. SYNOPSIS: In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA’s Golden […]
Movie Review – The Marshes (2020)
The Marshes. 2020. Directed by Roger Scott. Starring Dafna Kronental, Sam Delich, Mathew Cooper, and Eddie Baroo. SYNOPSIS: Deep in a remote marshland, three young biologists conduct research but when they encounter evil, science ends and survival begins. The Marshes is muddier and cloudier than the bog waters actors splash through. Australia’s Roger Scott attempts […]
Movie Review – VHYes (2020)
VHYes. 2020. Directed by Jack Henry Robbins. Starring Kerri Kenney, Thomas Lennon, Mark Proksch, Courtney Pauroso, Charlyne Yi, John Gemberling, Mason McNulty, Rahm Braslaw, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon. SYNOPSIS: This bizarre retro comedy follows 12-year-old Ralph as he accidentally records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. Jack […]
Movie Review – Rabid (2019)
Rabid. 2019. Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska. Starring Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Ted Atherton, Hanneke Talbot, Stephen Huszar, Mackenzie Gray, Stephen McHattie, and C.M. Punk. SYNOPSIS: The quiet Rose works in women’s fashion clothing, hoping to be a designer. A traffic accident damages her face. She gets experimental stem cell treatment, leaving her stronger […]
Movie Review – I See You (2019)
I See You. 2019. Directed by Adam Randall. Starring Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis, Owen Teague, Libe Barer, and Gregory Alan Williams. SYNOPSIS: Strange occurrences plague a small town detective and his family as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy. Adam Randall’s I See You doesn’t play by structured narrative rules. Thanks […]
Movie Review – Wounds (2019)
Wounds, 2019. Directed by Babak Anvari. Starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Christin Rankins, and Brad William Henke. SYNOPSIS: Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar. Wounds is two-thirds of a moral deterioration haunter that […]