The B-Movie Shelf

After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous REVIEW: Summer of 84 is the new blast of 80s nostalgia from the creators of Turbo Kid, one of the best movies of 2015 and equally filled with 1980s nostalgia, although done in a much different way. This time around it's a much more grounded thriller, about a group of teen friends in 1984 that think their cop neighbor is responsible for a string of teen murders in town, so they secretly investigate him, in ways that only teens from the 1980s can, to get to the bottom of the mystery. This movie is filled with that exact same Stranger Things/1980s type throwback tone, complete with a synth score. I know a lot of people are taking issue with this movie using so much nostalgia, but that's kind of the entire point of this movie, just like it...

A couple off on a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets. REVIEW: Traffik is both a bit gritty and a bit sleazy at times, which is great for this type of movie, however I feel like it doesn't really go far enough with either aspect for a movie about kidnapping for the purposes of sex trafficking. I'm not sure what the MPAA rating is on this, but it very much feels like a PG-13 movie that's trying to cover R-Rated level material the best it can. If this is indeed R-Rated, then there really is no excuse for not pushing that envelope a little bit more. This movie unfortunately takes quite a long time to really get going. It’s around the halfway point before we get to the actual main plot of the movie, and by the time it really ramps up from there, there's really only about 20 minutes left. There...

Just a few really quick, really short, thoughts on some B-Movies I’ve watched lately that I never did reviews for, for one reason or another (lack of time, not in the mood to do one, don’t have much to say, etc). A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.  REVIEW: I loved the way Pyewacket was filmed, The acting was superb, and while the story is a massive slowburn, it’s an interesting story all the same, with a couple genuinely creepy moments. However, it’s a bit too much of a slowburn and it never really gets crazy enough in the end to make up for it. IN addition I got issues with some parts of the story. 5/10 rooms in the Psych Ward   The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.  REVIEW: Don't Grow Up, also known as Alone in some parts of t...