Stars: Chloë Levine, Will Peltz, Gillian White, Peter Vack, Johnathon Schaech, Grace Van Dien | Written and Directed by Racheal Cain Somnium is the first feature from writer/director Racheal Cain after a trio of shorts, Everything Beautiful, The Clancy Family Funeral Home and Roaddog. It’s a film about dreams, both literal and figurative, following Gemma […]
Stars: Eric Roberts, Neeley Dayan, Anna DeRusso, Scott Mazzapica, Sara Kamine, Shelby Wright | Written by Ryan Ebert | Directed by Jose Prendes Heretics, which shouldn’t be confused with Heretic or even The Heretics as much as its makers, mockbuster kings The Asylum, would like you to. The film is, surprisingly, only their second foray […]
Stars: Megan Fox, Eoin Macken, Callan Mulvey, Jack Roth, Aml Ameen, Lili Rich | Written by Jason Carvey | Directed by S.K. Dale It doesn’t seem like that long ago that Megan Fox was starring in the Transformers franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jennifer’s Body. Now she’s starring in Machine Gun Kelly videos and […]
Stars: Anna Shields, Jessy Holtermann, Kaitlyn Lunardi, Ameerah Briggs, Brianna Cala | Written by Anna Shields | Directed by Bruce Wemple Since 1972 over forty people have gone missing in a remote stretch of Canada known as The Barren Lands. Their disappearance, according to locals, is linked to The Barren Cabin which disappeared in 1963, […]
Stars: Emily Rose Mogilner, Connor Powles, Bruno Cryan, Karolina Ugrenyuk, Fyn Phoenixx, Danielle Ronald, Steven Murphy, Kelly Rian Sanson | Written by Harry Boxley | Directed by William Stead The stream of public domain horror continues, this time it’s E.C. Segar’s iconic sailor Popeye who gets turned into a killer. The script by Harry Boxley, […]
Stars: Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Nick Moran, Dominique Tipper, Dean Jagger, Patrick Bergin | Written and Directed by Jesse V. Johnson Opening with the well-worn quote “One riot. One ranger.” from which it takes its title, One Ranger the new film from action specialist Jesse V. Johnson (Chief of Station, Accident Man) quickly segues into […]
Stars: Martin Portlock, Megan Placito, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Kit Green, Kelly Rian Sanson, Chrissie Wunna, Nicola Wright | Written by Scott Chambers, Rhys Frake-Waterfield | Directed by Scott Chambers The most recent entry in the so-called Poohniverse, and the first one not to feature Pooh, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, has arrived. With Winnie the Pooh: Blood […]
Stars: Tony Miello, Irfan Shiekh, Aaron Golematis, Erik Steele, Cassidy Fahling, Jerry Hayes, Christi Dumar, Robert Forte Shannon III, Lin Zy | Written and Directed by Matt Busch The story of Aladdin is an ancient and often retold one, with everyone from Disney to The Asylum getting in on the act. Now, former Lucasfilm concept […]
Stars: Preston Geer, Neeley Dayan, Vinney Pugliese, Michael Paré, Paul Logan | Written by Glenn Campbell, Tammy Klein | Directed by Adrian Avila 20th Century Studios released Alien: Romulus, and The Asylum – as is their modus operandi – was right there with their mockbuster Alien Rubicon, but those who mistake Alien Rubicon for Alien: […]
Stars: Chris Pine, Gillian Jacobs, Sander Thomas, Ben Foster, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexej Manvelov | Written by J.P. Davis | Directed by Tarik Saleh The Contractor opens with the voice of a preacher delivering a sermon as we watch U.S. Special Forces sergeant, James Harper (Chris Pine; Star Trek, Z for Zachariah) go about his business, […]
Stars: Jeff Rector, William Marshall, Harrison Ray, Denise Ames, Karen Black, Griffin Drew, Elizabeth Landau, Carrie Vanston | Written and Directed by Donald F. Glut With its catchy title and plentiful doses of both effects as well as T&A, Dinosaur Valley Girls became a staple of both video rental stores and late-night cable programming. Which […]
Stars: Hailey Kate Schmidt, Mackenzie Newbury, Sherry Hoffman | Written and Directed by Matthew I. Schmidt Running a brisk thirty minutes, Mr. Sandman from writer/director Matthew I. Schmidt (Happy Birthday Hannah, Tales of Found Footage) is an exercise in suspense and dread based on something most of us can relate to, especially those of us […]
Stars: Ravi Patel, Henry Haggard, Rashad Rayford, Laura Holloway, Quinnlan Ashe, Allison Shrum, Ted Welch, Schyler Tillett, Phillip Cordell | Written by Danny Dones, Phillip Cordell | Directed by Danny Dones Welcome to the future, a future in which techbro Robert Nefari (Ravi Patel; Dashing Through the Snow, The Time Capsule) and his company, NefariCorp, […]
Stars: Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novakovic, Sawyer Jones, Kane Kosugi, Malcolm Fuller | Written and Directed by Pablo Absento Bloat follows Jack (Ben McKenzie; Adventures in the Sin Bin, The O.C.), a soldier whose family is trying to move past a recent personal tragedy. To facilitate this healing process, Jack books a family vacation to Japan […]
Stars: Emily Classen, John Dimes, Kalima Young | Written by Chris LaMartina, Rob Walker | Directed by Melissa LaMartina Susan Price (Emily Classen; The Only Ones, Ape Canyon) is a real estate agent, she also happens to be a certified exorcist. That’s actually a pretty good combination, as she picks up haunted houses on the […]
Stars: Chris Cleveland, Bill Wetherill, Heather Renee Wake, Kellen Garner, Chade Green, Aria Song | Written by Kellen Garner | Directed by Christopher Sheffield, Kellen Garner I was just thinking the other day that it had been a while since I’d reviewed a western and then along comes Blood in Them Hills a tale of […]
Stars: William Instone, Michael Fischer, Paige Steakley, Johnny Huang, Samantha Holland, Kayla Anderson, Dakota Millett, Santiago Sky, Brinke Stevens, Bill Johnson, Paul T. Taylor, Jeremy London, Bill Oberst Jr. | Written by William Instone, Renfield Rasputin | Directed by William Instone, Matt Rifley Billed by its distributor Breaking Glass Pictures as “A Modern Slasher in […]
Stars: Ben Getz, Dylan Eshbaugh, Sully Brown, Jayson Bernard, Piper Verbrick, Fiona Domenica, Samantha Rothermel, Jamie Day, Tom Moynahan, Annie Gill | Written by Dylan Eshbaugh, Ben Getz | Directed by Caleb Harris Ben Duff (Ben Getz; Uncaged, Fuckboy Mountain) and Dylan Mulligan (Dylan Eshbaugh; Echo Beach the Movie, Trouble on Hanzelsphere-7!) are best friends […]
Stars: Edward Furlong, Corey Shane Love, Brandon Kirk, Steve Railsback, Susan Priver, Ginger Lynn, Lew Temple, Robert Rhine, Bai Ling | Written and Directed by Chad Ferrin Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep closes out the trilogy writer/director Chad Ferrin began with The Deep Ones and continued in H. P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones. This […]
Stars: Douglas Smith, Kimberly-Sue Murray, Carrie-Anne Moss, Frank Grillo, Jonathan Cherry | Written and Directed by Lowell Dean Die Alone is the most recent film from Saskatchewan-based filmmaker Lowell Dean. If you’ve heard of him, it’s probably because of the over-the-top genre comedies WolfCop and Another WolfCop. But he’s done several other films, including the […]
