The Spooky World of Chris Ringler
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Here you will find a collection of my reviews.
The term elevated horror is the sort of silliness that only comes from embarrassed actors, directors, and production companies that don’t want their hands dirtied by a genre like horror. They love making their money from the fans but don’t want to admit to having made a dirty horror film. There have always been horror… Continue reading Broken Bird – movie review
As I have said before, one of the great things about found footage films is that it isn’t about the budget, it’s about the ambition. If you are committed to the story and have some ingenuity you can pull off almost anything. Saying that, you still need to put the work in. With the first… Continue reading TAHOE JOE 2 – The Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Conspiracy – found footage review
I watch a fair share of movies, I just don't review them all. I figure everyone else is handling that, but, well, for the sake of the slacks... ALIEN: ROMULUS A refried re-hash of the rest of the films in the main series that just works. It has a great lead performance, a crackling pace,… Continue reading Movie Review – New Movie Quick Hits
Well, this is a nice change of pace - a found-footage crime film. I have seen them before, but they are pretty few a far between. There’s more chance of a profit from a horror film, as horror geeks will just about watch anything. I have to admit though that making a drama, or a… Continue reading THE ESSEX BOYS TAPES – found footage
I find it hard to wrap my head around parents today. On one hand, they fret and worry over ‘predators’ and ‘grooming’ and want to safeguard their kids from the world all while they create social media accounts for them so they can be ‘influencers’ and followed by strangers. It’s weird. On one hand it… Continue reading LIFE OF BELLE – found footage review
There is something wholly insidious about how humans have found ways to weaponize every last thing we rely on to reach out into the world. As technology has evolved, so too have abusers and stalkers, and with a strong online support system of like-minded sickos, it’s become a scary time for a lot of people.… Continue reading RATTER – found footage review
There is something about the European moors that I am not sure Americans can fully understand. In its way, it’s like the American desert, a vast area where nothing human can really live (easily), which is unforgiving in its nature. What we can’t get is how vast and dangerous the moors are, in ways that… Continue reading THE MOOR – movie review
I had a pretty nice little lead-in for this review but I feel like it gives too much away and that the discovery is part of the wonders this movie has to offer. Sure, twists and mysteries, once learned, lose their novelty but they don’t necessarily lose their power. A film like NEW LIFE offers… Continue reading New Life – movie review
I am not sure if it’s refreshing that, with people putting their work on YouTube and other video-sharing platforms that there are more opportunities to get films out or if it shows how cutthroat the industry as a whole has become. While some filmmakers are shooting films with no greater desire than to have their… Continue reading WE ARE THE MISSING – found footage review
I remember first seeing HOME MOVIE several years ago when I was first starting to get into found footage. A friend owned it and passed it on to me. I remember being shocked by it and intrigued. It was so different from BLAIR WITCH PROJECT but still fascinating. Since it’s been many years I wanted… Continue reading HOME MOVIE – found footage review
Thrillers are a darn fun genre, but not one is easy to crack. The ‘90s were filled with them after SE7EN and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and there is always the occasional movie that breaks through and gets everyone’s attention on the genre again and we go through the cycle again. Serial killer thrillers have… Continue reading RESTORE POINT – review
Let me preface this by saying that I am not one to seek out 'fan edits'. To me, the movie that comes out is what was intended, or as close as we're apt to get. Movies evolve as they are made. Stories, change, focus changes, actors change, and the film goes through many different cuts… Continue reading THE BLAIR WITCH 2 – fan edit
There are few questions in life that are as important and impactful as the question of what happens when we die. People spend theie whole lives in quest of that great truth never coming close to an answer they find suitable. Too many lose sight of their own lives in pursuit of an answer as… Continue reading AFTER DEATH – documentary review
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