Cinemaniac Reviews

 Nefarious! Believe Entertainment. Written and Directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon. Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, Tom Ohmer and Glenn Beck. Dr. James Martin is called to examine a death row inmate Edward Wayne Brady to determine whether or not he is competent enough to be executed for the murders he was convicted of. Upon arrival the warden tells James that the execution is set for 11pm and that he has until 4pm to come to his conclusion. James explains to the warden that that it is his practice and sometimes it takes time to figure out if the individual is truly insane or acting out. The warden proceeds to let James know that Edward is the best manipulator he has ever met and that by the time James was done he would have James thinking he had committed the murders himself. James is escorted to a holding room to meet Edward. Edward telling James that he is a demon and he wants James to let Edward be executed because he is done using his vessel. Trying to determ...

 Insidious! Sony Pictures. Directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell. Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey and Lin Shaye. After Josh and his wife Renai move their family into a new house they slowly notice strange activity with their son Dalton. While Ranai spends a lot of time with the couples baby daughter, Dalton spends time with his brother Foster. One night Dalton goes into the attic and after hearing a weird sound he tries to pull the light string and falls off the ladder going into a coma. Trying to convince Josh eerie occurrences were happening Renai was having a hard time everyday. Seeing and hearing things that aren't there. Josh kept telling her it was just the move and that nothing was there. They started seeing marks on Dalton and Foster told them he didn't feel safe near him and that Dalton sleep walks though he was hooked to machines and in a coma.  Joshs mother Lorraine sees what is happening and is taken back by it. She calls Elsie who i...

 The VVitch! A24 films. Written and Directed by Roger Eggers. Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Katie Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson, Julian Richings, Bathsheba Garnett, Sarah Stephens and Wahab Chaudhry. 1600's New England an English settler named William and his family, wife Katherine, daughter Thomasin, son Caleb and young fraternal twins Jonas and Mercy are banished from the Puritan village. There was a religious dispute and they were told to leave. After leaving they build a farm in a forest. Katherine has the couples fifth child Samuel. Strange things start to happen when Thomasin starts playing with Samuel a "witch" takes him without Thomasin seeing it. Scared she has to tell her family who start to blame her. Slowly they start turning on one another. Thomasin kept telling them it was not her but they didn't believe her. Oh and lets not forget about Black Phillip! The true question is what is happening? Is there a witch or entity? Or ...

 Renfield! Universal Pictures! Directed by Chris McKay and written by Ryan Ridley. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Story as old as Horror film time. Renfield is the servant (familiar) of Dracula. This movie shows how they came to meet when Renfield was looking to get a piece of land. After proving himself as a good assistant Dracula made him his familiar. He gave him the powers of being immortal and he gets more powers by eating bugs. Almost 100 years later hunter broke into Draculas castle and almost kill him but with the help of Renfield he was able to live on. While trying to help him heal up, Renfield realizes he doesn't like doing what Dracula ask anymore and wants out. He has been going to a group therapy where they have been telling him to take control and don't let his abuser have the power anymore. They don't know it is Dracula. Will he get out of Draculas grasp??? This movie is more Action/Gore than Horror. I com...

 Dark Nature! Epic Pictures Group. Directed and Written by Berkley Brady. Cast: Hannah Emily Anderson, Madison Walsh, Roseanne Supernault, Helen Belay, Kyra Harper and Daniel Arnold. Joy lives with her abusive boyfriend Derek. After a night where he almost kills her she breaks free from him. Months later her best friend Carmen talks her into to going to weekend group therapy trip. There are two other women with them Tara and Shaina. All of these women have went through something very extreme/tormenting. While in the wilderness Joy starts to see and hear thing she believes it is Derek. Others telling her nothing is going on slowly start to see and hear things as well. Unbeknownst to them there is something out there. The question is will anyone get out alive.  I liked this one. The idea of being strong enough to stand up and get out of an abusive relationship is amazing. Too many people have to go through it both men and women and they feel they have to stay or that it is their...

 Children of the Corn 2023! Image Entertainment. Distributed by RJLE Films. Directed and Written by Kurt Wimmer. Based on Stephen Kings Children of the Corn. Cast: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence and Stephen Hunter. When a small Nebraskan towns cornfields are dying Callan Mulvey is given in option for a company to buy the fields from the farmers. At a meeting all the adults agree to this purchase while Callans daughter Bo stands up and tells them to regrow by giving nourishment to the soil. The towns people laugh and say everyone voted to sell while the kids say not everyone. That is when Eden a 12 year old recruits all of the children to fight against the adults in selling the cornfields. Bo has to do everything she can to keep Eden and the rest of the children from killing all of the adults in town.  I give this movie a 2 out of 5. They started filming in 2020 but due to Covid 19 had to stop so some may say this is the 2020 Children of the Corn movie...

 The Park! Production Vanishing Angle. Directed and written by Shal Ngo. Cast: Chole Guidry, Nhedrick Jabier, Carmina Garay, Carli McIntyre and Adam Sulony. After an unknown virus has killed off all adults teens realize they will have to do anything to survive. Ines and Bui are traveling together to find the kid genius who is supposed to have the cure. They run into Kuan a girl who is alone at a theme park. Kuan tells Ines that she is not the kid genius but would like to work together to make the park a place where all the kids that are left can go. Kuan also tells her about Blue Meanies and how they are killing everyone they find. The Blue Meanies show up at the theme park and the teens have to defend themselves.  This movie to me has a really cool concept but like Black Demon it has a horrible script. The teen actors aren't horrible but kind of seem robotic at times. It has a run time of around 80 minutes which is a good time limit. I think if we got a little more on the sto...