RICHARD JOBSON: 16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL
Richard Jobson presents to us, through Tartan Films, a poignant, dramatic, and ultimately sad tale of love, abuse, apathy, and hope…
Posted on June 3, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The famous story of the Lutz family, and how they unwarily entered a hotbed of supernatural (and evil) powers when they purchased their old Dutch Colonial home in the quiet suburb of Amityville, has been told over 9 times now, if you count the 7 “Amityville” sequels, prequels, and just plain retardquels…
Posted on April 18, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
THE LUNAR PACK (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 65 minutes |
The stories that are told in “The Lunar Pack” are really fun and thankfully employ an under utilized horror; that of lycanthropes…
Posted on March 23, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
KOMA (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
…a murder mystery, a kidney thief, lies, backstabbing, more sex, more kidney trouble, and some major moral decisions for everyone involved…
Posted on March 9, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
KOMA: THE JEALOUSY OF HUMANS
Karena Lam, Hong Kong actress, and Angelica Lee, stars of the new thriler “Koma”, open up about their characters Suen Ling, a seemingly wicked and devious femme fatale who will stop at nothing to get what she wants, and Chi Ching, a forgiving and terribly pitiable woman… or is that REALLY the way their characters are? Director Chi Leung Law also participates in this intriguing look into the basis for Hong Kong female-driven thrills and chills…
Posted on March 7, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
THE JACKET
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 102 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The filmmakers make a point of calling this a “genre-less” project, and indeed it is, but for most viewers I think you can throw this in the same bag with “The Sixth Sense”, “The Village”, and “Boogeyman”…
Posted on March 4, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
SCREECH OF THE DECAPITATED
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
Think “Romy and Michelle” meets “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, and you’ll have an accurate idea of what the filmmakers were shooting for. “Screech of the Decapitated” treats b-movies with a refreshingly feminine take on beauty, comedy, and horror…
Posted on March 1, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
OLD MAN
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
Using a mask to make a young actor appear old must have been a choice that was deemed good at the time…
Posted on February 10, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
TRANSIT ANGEL
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 40 minutes |
“Transit Angel” is like a bad high school play. If you’ve got a relative in it, I’m sure you’ll find something to like…
Posted on February 9, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
CHRIS SEAVER’S TRASH IS BETTER THAN YOURS
Chris Seaver, the founder of Low Budget Pictures, has a strange and sick sense of humor. With the advent of DV, computer editing programs, and websites designed as support systems for independent filmmakers, there are literally hundreds of makeshift companies out there producing gore, filth, trash, sludge, slime, dirt, and disgusting garbage…Chris Seaver is just better at it…
Posted on February 9, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
BOOGEYMAN
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 86 minutes |
IN THEATERS! This film does cause shivers, creeps, scares, and jumps. It may even make you scream a bit. But the Boogeyman himself will not stay with you or appear in your nightmares…
Posted on February 4, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
DEAD LINE
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
A night temp at a shady company finds herself receiving strange phone calls from the day temp…
Posted on January 19, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
MURDER-SET-PIECES
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
Usually films of this caliber violence are hack jobs or wannabe snuff films with no real message, characters, or goals other than to kill naked whores in front of a camera. “Murder-Set-Pieces” is so much more violent and so much better than anything I’ve seen before in the genre…
Posted on January 18, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
ROOMMATE FROM HELL
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Two roommates; one a slob, the other a neat freak…
Posted on January 18, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
P.O. BOX
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
“P.O. Box” is filmed like a “Tales from the Crypt” episode, when “Tales from the Crypt” was really good…
Posted on January 15, 2005 by Heidi Martinuzzi
