Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Review *WARNING: SPOILERS*

I'm going to be looking at a Sirius (see what I did there?) Dracula movie depicting the love and loss that lead Vlad the Impaler to become the blood-sucking Count. This is one of the movie adaptations that follows the original novel more closely. If you want to find out more about Dracula adaptations and …

Ginger Snaps (2000) Review

Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald are social outcasts. Everyone at their school thinks they’re weird. Their unhealthy interest in death and lack of social skills make them easy targets for the school bullies. One night, the sisters decide to kidnap the dog of one of their bullies. In their town of Bailey Downs, a string of …

The Grudge (2004) Review

Karen, is an American careworker living in Tokyo. She is placed at the home of another American family to look after their mother who suffers from dementia. Their previous careworker, Yoko, has disappeared. I really don’t want to say anymore because it would be an unfair spoiler. It can be deeply disturbing. The fact that …

The Witches (1990) Review

When a young American boy, Luke, goes to stay with his grandmother in Norway with his parents, she tells him stories about witches who kidnap and kill children. After his parents are killed in a car accident, Luke and his grandmother, Helga, move to England. On Luke’s birthday, Helga becomes ill and is diagnosed with …

Paranormal Activity (2007) Review

After some supernatural goings-on, Katie and her boyfriend Micah begin filming their lives, hoping to catch some supernatural footage. Katie has been experiencing these things since she was a child, so moving won’t help. After some research they discover that it is a demon rather than a spirit. I’m sure most people have seen this …

Silent Hill (2006) Review

9-year-old Sharon, (Jodelle Ferland), has been having dreams about a place called “Silent Hill”. Her mother, Rose, does some research and finds that Silent Hill is in fact a real place. She and Sharon drive there to find some answers. Sharon's Father, Christopher, along with police Officer Thomas Gucci, travel to Silent Hill to find …

Insidious (2010) Review

Day 17 and this is the first of 4 (so far) movies in the Insidious series. Cinemassacre, Ending Explained, Everything Wrong With. A family of five move into a new house. Renai and her husband, Josh, and their three children Dalton, Foster and Cali. Dalton doesn’t wake up one morning, after falling off a ladder …

The Possession (2012) Review *WARNING: MILD SPOILERS*

A divorced father of two takes his daughters to a yard sale, where his youngest, Emily, finds a box. After a few days she becomes obsessed with it and doesn’t want anyone else to touch it. When she opens up the mysterious box, which at first seemed like it wouldn't open, she finds some strange …

Sinister (2012) Review

The film stars Ethan Hawke as Ellison Oswalt, a true crime writer, who moves his family into a new home to write his next book based on a murder that took place nearby. While in the attic, he finds a box with a film projector and 8mm films, all labelled with family activity sounding titles. …

Hellraiser (1987) Review

The first three Hellraisers were the first DVDs I ever got. Cinemassacre review. In the beginning we see Frank Cotton buying a puzzle box. Next he’s in an attic surrounded by candles. He opens the box, which releases chains with hooks on the ends. The hooks cut into Frank’s body, stretching his skin. It then …