Director: Lucky McKee
Runtime: 91 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Certification: USA: R

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The year is 1965, and somewhere in New England Heather Fasulo (Agnes Bruckner) has just set fire to a tree. And why the hell not? Those cocky piles of chimney fuel just stand around thinking they’re better then everyone. It seems sensible that we should torch flora occasionally as a reminder that they’re nothing more than CO2 scrubbers for my H3, damn it. Apparently, Heather’s parents feel otherwise. Deciding that she’s a troubled teen, they do what any loving and caring parents would when faced with a problem child: they drive into the woods and pawn her off. Her painfully silent father (Bruce Campbell), and his harpy of a wife, abandon Heather at the ill-maintained Falburn Academy. The eerily austere faculty immediately take an unsettling interest in the girl, almost completely ignoring her parents. Read the rest of this entry »

Directed by: Steve Franke
MPAA: Rated R for horror violence and gore, some sexuality, nudity and language.
Runtime: USA:89 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Certification: USA:R

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“Brain Fluid.”

It seems like these two words being an essential part of a movie’s plot would immediately propel it into B-greatness, but this is obviously not the case. Serum is simply a Re-Animator knockoff with the feel of a daytime soap opera and a pinch of soft core porn…but without the sex.

Eddie is a down-to-earth handsome young man that just got accepted into Medical School. He is the third doctor in his family, taking after his father and his uncle, Dr. K. Speaking of Dr. K, he is currently working on a cure for cancer Read the rest of this entry »

Directed by: Jörg Lühdorff
Runtime: Germany: 98 min / USA: 104 min
Country: Czech Republich / Germany
Language: German / English (US dvd)
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Stereo
Certification: Germany: 12 / USA:PG-13

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Sigh… Revenge of the Rats is a German-made, perfectly A-typical “Attack of the _______” thriller. The plot is as follows: Rats infest city on a garbage strike, inhabitants struggle with the disease-filled rodents. Although this movie has the advantage of instilling a bit more immediacy due to it’s realistic antagonist (aka it’s got rats instead of mutant crabs or giant rabbits), it’s only marginally better than your average straight-to-vid. If this is the first of it’s kind for you, then you’ll probably think it’s pretty darn entertaining. Because you are 11. For the rest of us who have seen this archetype many, many times, there isn’t much intrigue. But, let’s sift through the mounting heaps of garbage, avoiding the terminal rat-bites, and see what we can salvage. Read the rest of this entry »

Directed by: Joe Knee
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Label: Creep FX, Maverick Platinum
Street Date: 03/06/2007

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I’ve been interested in the occult since my freshman year of high school. I find the entire mentality to be both incredibly fascinating and truly frightening. Therefore, it seems that occult themed horror flicks would be right up my alley, eh? Unfortunately, this is not the case. Every movie on the subject I’ve seen has turned out to be abrasively average, and sadly Joe Knee’s “Cult” is no different.

A group of pretty-faced college kids convince their professor to let them research a mysterious, now-defunct cult for one of their classes. They discover that the origin of the cult’s extreme power came from an ancient Chinese amulet, which the geek in me is going to lovingly refer to as the +5 Jade Amulet of Sacrifice. Read the rest of this entry »

Directed by: Jon Price
Runtime: 43 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color

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Dementia is, quite simply, about a man who is coming unglued. The circumstances with which he loses himself are made apparent through the course of the movie but obviously involve his wife and daughter, who are featured in the teaser. We see early on that Danny, who is afflicted with the titular state of mind, has a hideous scar over his heart. A poignant link to the past, it’s most likely a constant reminder of the tragedy that occurred to (or within) his family.

Dementia has the ingredients necessary to capture any independent film audience: a lead character who has sympathetic convictions, a background filled with mystery, and a raw, unhindered belief that propels his actions. He’s not a mindless, angry slasher. Our lead is torn between his past life’s sociopolitical standards, Read the rest of this entry »