Portals, 2019. Directed by Gregg Hale, Liam O’Donnell, Eduardo Sánchez, and Timo Tjahjanto. Starring Deanna Russo, Ptolemy Slocum, Neil Hopkins, Salvita Decorte, Gretchen Lodge, Keith Hudson, Natasha Gott, Danielle Lewis, and Paul McCarthy-Boyington. SYNOPSIS: This genre-bending anthology takes place during a series of world-wide blackouts, after which millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies appear everywhere across […]
Movie Review – Eli (2019)
Eli. 2019. Directed by Ciarán Foy. Starring Charlie Shotwell, Kelly Reilly, Max Martini, Lili Taylor, and Sadie Sink. SYNOPSIS: A boy receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder discovers that the house he’s living in isn’t as safe as he thought. Generic repetition can at times plague Netflix’s catalog of interchangeable horror offerings, but then a […]
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 […]
Movie Review – Trick (2019)
Trick. 2019. Directed by Patrick Lussier. Starring Omar Epps, Jamie Kennedy, Tom Atkins, Ellen Adair, Vanessa Aspillaga, Alex Breaux, Kristina Reyes, Todd Farmer, Gary J. Tunnicliffe, and Aaron Dalla Villa. SYNOPSIS: A no-nonsense detective tries to track down a serial killer named Trick, who is terrorizing a small town. Patrick Lussier’s Trick lives Halloween, breathes […]
Movie Review – Holiday Hell (2019)
Holiday Hell. 2019. Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis, Amber Stonebraker, Lisa Coronado, and Ailsa Marshall. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious shopkeeper narrates four horror tales, each set during a different holiday. I’ve (somehow) watched enough “Christmas Horror” anthologies over my career to confirm, […]
Movie Review – The Furies (2019)
The Furies, 2019. Directed by Tony D’Aquino. Starring Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo, Taylor Ferguson, Ebony Vagulans, and Danielle Horvat. SYNOPSIS: A woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where women are hunted by masked men. Tony D’Aquino’s The Furies reminds me, once again, the best video game adaptations aren’t […]
Movie Review – Killer Sofa (2019)
Killer Sofa. 2019. Directed by Bernie Rao. Starring Piimio Mei, Nathalie Morris, Harley Neville, Stacey King, Jed Brophy, Jim Baltaxe, and Grant Kereama. SYNOPSIS: A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion. Bernie Rao’s Killer Sofa is the “Zombeavers of inanimate object horror” in that title and concept […]
Movie Review – Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019)
Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, 2019. Directed by Stephen Cognetti. Starring Gabriel Chytry, Elizabeth Vermilyea, Sam Kazzi, Theodore Bouloukos, Brian David Tracy, Bridgid Abrams, Leo DeFriend, Scott Richey and Jordan Kaplan. SYNOPSIS: Nine years after the tragic events of Hell House, the Abaddon Hotel will once again be open to the public. Billionaire […]
Movie Review – Corporate Animals (2019)
Corporate Animals, 2019. Directed by Patrick Brice. Directed by Demi Moore, Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, Karan Soni, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Martha Kelly, Dan Bakkedahl, Calum Worthy, Jennifer Kim, and Nasim Pedrad. SYNOPSIS: Lucy (Demi Moore) is the egotistical megalomaniac CEO of Incredible Edibles, America’s premier provider of edible cutlery. In her infinite wisdom, Lucy leads […]
Movie Review – Satanic Panic (2019)
Satanic Panic, 2019. Directed by Chelsea Stardust. Starring Rebecca Romijn, Arden Myrin. Hayley Griffith, Ruby Modine, Mike E. Winfield, AJ Bowen, Jordan Ladd, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Jerry O’Connell. SYNOPSIS: A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life – and her tips – when her last […]