Killer Joe, 2011. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. SYNOPSIS: A down-and-out family in Texas decide to kill their alcoholic mother for her $50,000 life insurance policy, and hire the eponymous Killer Joe (Matthew McConaughey) to do the job. Not being able to afford […]

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead, 1994. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Angus Scrimm. SYNOPSIS: The cross-country hunt for the mortician continues as the plot thickens. After a brief montage which attempts to clue in any audiences that may have missed Phantasm (1979) and Phantasm II (1988), […]

Rock of Ages, 2012. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Cranston, Malin Akerman, Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige. SYNOPSIS: A small town girl moves to Los Angeles with ambitions to make it as a singer. In 2007, director Adam Shankman had a […]

Cosmopolis, 2012. Written and Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: A journey across Manhattan in a stretch limousine turns into an eventful day in the life of a young billionaire asset manager. David Cronenberg is anything but a […]

Maniac Cop, 1988. Directed by William Lustig. Starring Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith and Robert Z’Dar. SYNOPSIS: A killer in police uniform is dubbed the Maniac Cop after he starts taking out innocent people on the streets of New York City. The 80s had such a high output of schlocky […]

Chernobyl Diaries, 2012. Directed by Bradley Parker. Starring Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and Dimitri Diatchenko. SYNOPSIS: Six ‘extreme’ tourists discover they are not alone during an illegal visit to the abandoned city of Prypiat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I’ll be honest; I went to […]

Phantasm II, 1988. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring James LeGros, Paula Irvine, Reggie Bannister and Angus Scrimm. SYNOPSIS: Six years later and people are still going missing – could the mortician have returned? Or did he never leave in the first place? It took almost a decade before audiences were able to return to the […]

The Woman in Black, 2012. Directed by James Watkins. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds, Sophie Stuckey and Liz White. SYNOPSIS: Young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a small village to settle the affairs of the lady of Eel Marsh House, to discover the villagers are tormented by a very vengeful ghost. The Woman […]

The Reptile, 1966. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Noel Willman, Jacqueline Pearce, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: Following the mysterious death of his brother, Harry Spalding (Ray Barrett) and his wife Valerie (Jennifer Daniel) move to an inherited cottage in small Cornish village with a dark secret. It is always refreshing to […]

The Plague of the Zombies, 1966. Directed by John Gilling. Starring André Morell, John Carson, Jacqueline Pearce, Brook Williams and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: As a mysterious plague ravagers a remote 19-century Cornish village, two scientists desperately search for an antidote, only to discover a world of black magic and a legion of flesh eating zombies. […]