Tag: found footage

April in The Asylum – Branden Chowen on 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012)

For the entire month of April, Cinefessions will once again be locked inside The Asylum, reviewing tons of releases by the famed studio. Every weekday throughout April you will get another Asylum review. Title: 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012) Director: Martin Wichmann Runtime: 84 minutes — A few years back, when I…


Capsule Review – Branden Chowen on The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

The Cinefessions crew loves sharing their opinions on films, but not every movie can get the attention it deserves with a full review. Enter the Cinefessions’ Capsule Reviews. These capsule reviews cover five of the most important aspects of a film, which allow the crew to deliver their opinions on any movie clearly, decisively, and…


13 Days of Halloween: Day 9.5 – Chris Ranson on V/H/S: Viral (2014)

Title: V/H/S: Viral (2014) Directors: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, and Nacho Vigalondo Runtime: 97 minutes — If there’s one subgenre in horror that I really don’t care for, it’s the found footage style, which our very own Branden adores for some reason. While I don’t care for it, that…


April in The Asylum: Branden Chowen on The Amityville Haunting (2011)

For the entire month of April, Cinefessions will be locked into The Asylum, reviewing films released by the famed studio. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday throughout April you will get another review on a film released by The Asylum. April’s podcast will also be devoted to films from The Asylum, and you can decide which three…


Second Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge – Week Four Preview

Just like that, we enter the fourth and final week of the Second Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge. June has absolutely flown by once again, and we only have on more week of obsessively counting our viewing, and trying to fill in the puzzle that is the checklist. What an odd thing it is that…


Movie Review – Area 407 (2012)

Title: Area 407 (2012) Runtime: 90 minutes Directors: Dale Fabrigar and Everette Wallin — For a made-for-tv horror film, I really expected this to be worse than it was. That said, this is not a good movie. Unfortunately, the incredibly cool premise – a group of people survive a plane crash, but, unbeknownst to them,…


The Weekly Binge: Blu-ray and DVD Releases for July 17th, 2012

The home video market is flooded with a load of new DVD and Blu-ray releases every single week. The sad fact is that the majority of these releases are not worth your time. So every week I sift through the junk and find the home video releases worth talking about. Welcome to the first edition…