@HellingsOnFilm takes a gander at Heavenly Sword...Synopsis:Heavenly Sword is a dramatic tale of revenge that sees Nariko (Anna Torv), a fiery red-haired heroine, embark on a quest for vengeance against the invading King Bohan (Alfred Molina) and his army. Once considered the failure of a legendary prophecy, Nariko must wield a sword that was ultimately... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The House with 100 Eyes
@HellingsOnFilm checks out The House with 100 Eyes... CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERSSynopsis:Ed and Susan appear to be a normal loving couple, however, they are far from it. They are snuff filmmakers and want to make the first-ever triple feature: three victims, three kills, all in one night. In order to provide their fans with everything you'd... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful S2 Ep03 – The Nightcomers
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look back at Penny Dreadful S2 EP3 - The Nightcomers...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSVanessa Ives (Eva Green) finds Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) studying the scorpion sign of blood on the upstairs wooden floor, at Sir Malcolm’s, that Eva had created previously. Ethan understandably wants to know what it is, only to be met with the... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Horsehead
@HellingsOnFilm enters into the dream world of Horsehead...Synopsis:Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Der Samurai
@HellingsOnFilm takes on Der Samurai... CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. Official Synopsis: A wolf wanders the woods on the edge of a small village on the German-Polish border. Jakob, a young police officer, is tracking him, but senses something more in the darkness. He comes across a man, or something akin to one, with a wild gaze... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Maggie
@HellingsOnFilm checks out Maggie...CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERSSynopsis:A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.Review:In a post apocalyptic world, husband and second wife Wade and Caroline (a first rate Schwarzenegger and the always... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Canal
@HellingsOnFilm takes a dip in The Canal...CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS.Synopsis:Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) has been having a rough time lately, as he suspects that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) has been cheating on him with Alex (Carl Shaaban), one of her work clients. This stress is compounded when David's work partner Claire (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) gives... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look at A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night...CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERSPlot:In the Iranian ghost town of Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire..Review:Billed as “Iran’s first vampire western”, “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” was actually... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Lazarus Effect
@HellingsOnFilm reviews The Lazuras Effect - gets annoyed...CONTAINS SPOILERS.SynopsisA group of medical researchers discover a way to bring the dead back to life.ReviewBringing people back from the dead never quite works out the way you'd like it to. Ask Victor Frankenstein how it went? Or Mr. and Mrs. White from WW Jacobs' classic supernatural short... Continue Reading →
How I Got Into Horror (or how horror got into me)
@HellingsOnFilm recounts how horror reeled him in...Once upon a time, way back when, in a time that the BBC was still good, they used to show the late night Horror Double Bill on a Saturday evening (tucked away on BBC2 so as not to offend the blue rinse, conservative audiences of the main channel, most of... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Upper Footage (aka Upper)
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look at the 1%ers in The Upper Footage...SynopsisThe Upper Footage is the first film experience of its kind. The film is an edited version of 393 minutes of recovered footage documenting a young girl's tragic overdose death and subsequent cover up by a group of affluent socialites. What started as a blackmail plot played... Continue Reading →
Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Fresh Hell
David Paul Hellings checks out Ep 1, Season 2 of Penny Dreadful...The premise of "Penny Dreadful" Season One promised much, but didn't always deliver as it could have done, often falling into the trap that "Van Helsing" did by throwing in every Universal monster in the hope that the mix would work. There were moments... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Ten
David Paul Hellings take a deep breath and counts to Ten for his review...Directed by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein.Written by Michael J. Epstein, Sarah Wait Zaranek, Jade Sylvain and Sophia Cacciola.SYNOPSIS"Ten women find themselves in a vacant mansion on Spektor Island in December, 1972. Each believes she's traveled to the house on business,... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Sorrow
David Paul Hellings reviews Sorrow...CONTAINS SPOILERSThere's an old and true saying: "The audience doesn't care what went on behind the scenes, they judge you by what's on the screen". Another good one is: "When a film works, the director gets all the credit. When it doesn't, the director takes all the blame". Nowhere is either... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: What’s Left Of Us
David Hellings has seen the zombie future and he likes it...POSSIBLE SPOILERSSynopsisAs far as they know Axel, Jonathan and Ana are the last three human beings. Together, they live in a claustrophobic bunker in a post-apocalyptic hell. Outside lies a perilous, urban landscape filled with the undead, where they must scavenge and hunt for food... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Jonah Lives
David Paul Hellings reviews Jonah Lives...CONTAINS SPOILERS"A story of revenge from beyond the grave, centering on a group of teenagers who unknowingly supply the catalyst for the murdered Jonah's return from the grave" in Writer/Director/Editor/Sound Editor/Producer Luis Carvalho's debut feature.According to the publicity, "Luis Carvalho was a boy with a dream. As a teenager, his... Continue Reading →