Features the voices of: Matthew Mercer, Nicole Tompkins, Kevin Dorman, Stephanie Panisello, Erin Cahill, Salli Saffioti, Daman Mills, Lucien Dodge, Frank Todaro, Stephanie Panisello, Cristina Valenzuela | Written by Makoto Fukami | Directed by Eiichiro Hasumi The latest entry in the animated franchise, Resident Evil: Death Island comes two years after the last entry, Resident […]
Stars: Nathan Shepka, Colin MacDougall, Graeme MacPherson, Tony Macdonald, Laura MacDougall, Stephen Kerr | Written by Nathan Shepka, Tom Jolliffe | Directed by Nathan Shepka Lock & Load, the sequel to 2021’s Holiday Monday, is once again directed and written by Nathan Shepka (When Darkness Falls, Hunting Season), though this time with a little additional […]
Stars: Gavin O’Fearraigh, Erin Gavin, Steven Martini, Gabriela Kulaif | Written and Directed by Mary Patel-Gallagher Holistay is the latest in an ever-growing list of AirBnB-themed horrors. From Creep Nation and Exit through Superhost and, of course, Barbarian there’s a plethora of films warning us to get a hotel room if we want to stay […]
Features the voices of: Stana Katic, Troy Baker, Jensen Ackles, Damian O’Hare, Teddy Sears, Frank Grillo, Darren Criss, Ike Amadi, Robin Atkin Downes, John DiMaggio | Written by Jeremy Adams, Ernie Altbacker, Josie Campbell | Directed by Jeff Wamester For its most recent animated feature, Justice League: Warworld, DC returns to the Tomorrowverse, which has […]
Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Minami Hamabe, Mirai Moriyama, Tasuku Emoto, Nanase Nishino | Written and Directed by Hideaki Anno The third entry in the Shin Japan Heroes Universe, Shin Kamen Rider, steps away from the kaiju-oriented plots of Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman to let writer/director Hideaki Anno, the driving force behind the Shin […]
Stars: Woody Norman, Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman | Written by Chris Thomas Devlin | Directed by Samuel Bodin Cobweb begins a week before Halloween when Peter (Woody Norman; The Small Hand, Poldark) is woken up by the sound of knocking seemingly coming from inside his bedroom wall. You can’t blame him for being […]
Stars: Joshua Brennan, Charlotte Best, Goran D. Kleut, Kelly Paterniti, Ric Herbert | Written by Nik Kacevski, Tess Meyer | Directed by Nik Kacevski Skinford was shot and released in its native Australia and apparently nowhere else, in 2017. A sequel, Skinford: Chapter Two followed in 2018. So, when I saw the title Skinford: Death […]
Stars: Kyle Gallner, Holland Roden, Chris Mulkey | Written and Directed by Laurence Vannicelli Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. – H.P. Lovecraft “The Outsider” There’s nothing that would be considered Lovecraftian about writer/director Laurence Vannicelli’s (Vera, The Young Housefly) new film Mother, May I? but that […]
Stars: Maggie Q, Kat Foster, Highdee Kuan, James Carpinello, Travis Hammer | Written and Directed by Neil LaBute Fear the Night opens with a confrontation, though not the kind you might expect from a home invasion thriller. Tes (Maggie Q; The Protégé, Death of Me) is going through a trunk full of scrapbooks in the […]
Stars: Ma Dong-seok aka Don Lee, Lee Jun-hyuk, Munetaka Aoki, Se-ho Ahn, Noo-Ri Bae, Kim Do-Geon, Ko Gun-Han, Go Gyu-pil, Shin Hyeon-Yong | Written by Kim Min-sung | Directed by Sang-yong Lee The third film in the Crime City franchise, The Roundup: No Way Out certainly has its work cut out for it following 2017’s […]
Stars: Devanny Pinn, John Garrett Mahlmeister, Eoin O’Brien, Mike Ferguson, Randall J. Bacon, Bear Williams, Casper Van Dien, Nicky Whelan, Kim DeLonghi, Louis Mandylor | Written by Chad Law, Josh Ridgway | Directed by Brandon Slagle The Flood opens with Sommer (Devanny Pinn; Frost, Bus Party To Hell) and Clarence (John Garrett Mahlmeister; Battle for […]
Stars: Alison Thornton, Micah Kelpin, Mya Lowe, Nemo Cartwright | Written and Directed by Kevin Schultz Shot and released to festivals under the title Guiltless, Girl Gone Bad is the debut feature from writer/director Kevin Schultz (Henchmen, Killing Keith). And he comes out of the gate swinging, delivering a prologue with a wonderful sting to […]
Stars: Tito Ortiz, Rafael Cansino, Mike Ferguson, Paul Bikibili, Cris “Cyborg” Justino, Mike Markoff, Kelsey Johnson, Johnny Llanes, Jenna Pena | Written and Directed by Jamaal Burden As if the fact its title works out to “Operation Black Operations” wasn’t enough of a warning, we’re not even two minutes into Operation Black Ops when the […]
Stars: Harry Giubileo, Jay O’Connell, Ivan du Pontavice, Johnny Vivash, Howard J Davey, David Lenik | Written and Directed by William Stead Children of the Night (no relation to the Tony Randel-directed film from 1991) is a first for Charlie Steeds’ company Dark Temple Motion Pictures. Where their previous films such as Freeze and The […]
Stars: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Adam Kenneth Wilson, Wesley French, Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini, Alex Lifeson | Written by Nick Cutter, Ian Weir | Directed by Rodrigo Gudiño The Breach, not to be confused with Breach, is the second feature from Rue Morgue founding editor Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh). […]
Stars: Kang Tae-Ju, Kim Seon-Ho, Justin John Harvey, Go Ara, Kang-woo Kim | Written and Directed by Park Hoon-jung The Childe is the latest film from Korean writer/director Park Hoon-jung which means it comes with some pretty big expectations. Hoon-jung started his career as the writer of I Saw the Devil before going on to […]
Stars: Naturi Naughton, Tobias Truvillion, Jason Mitchell, Lance Gross, Nicholas Turturro, Johnny Messner, Garrett Hendricks | Written and Directed by Wes Miller As Call Her King opens Judge Jaeda King (Naturi Naughton; The Night Before Christmas, Power) is having a bad day, she got smacked around at her martial arts class and then her husband […]
Stars: Jeremiah Benjamin, Charles Chudabala, Elissa Dowling, Raymond Vinsik Williams, Scott Butler, D.M. Harrison, Kevin Caliber, Hunter Johnson, Shawn C. Phillips, Shawn Kohne | Written and Directed by Aaron Mento Opening with a text crawl telling the viewer about the controversial video game franchise Hazard Waster and its anti-hero Waxx Waster, 16 Bits quickly introduces […]
Stars: Dominic Purcell, Nick Stahl, Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, John Cassini, Erik Valdez, Russell Richardson, Arielle Raycene | Written by Michael Kaycheck, Brooke Nasser | Directed by Michael Oblowitz Confidential Informant opens with a voiceover telling us what wonderful people cops are, especially those with combat experience. Case in point Tom Moran (Dominic Purcell; Assassin, […]
Stars: Sasha Luss, Isabelle Fuhrman, Wallis Day, Skai Jackson, Jack Kesy | Written and Directed by Jordan Gertner Sheroes, the writing and directing debut of producer Jordan Gertner (The Virgin Suicides, The Killer Inside Me) begins with a look into the lives of its four leads Diamond (Sasha Luss; Valerian and the City of a Thousand […]
Stars: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jeffrey Donovan, Kevin Wiggins, Brett Gelman | Written by Andrew Pagana, Justin Thomas | Directed by Anthony Mandler Surrounded is the latest in a long line of black-themed Westerns that stretches from early efforts like The Bull-Dogger and Harlem on the Prairie through John Ford’s Sergeant Rutledge […]
Stars: Greg Hovanessian, Michael Ironside, Dempsey Bryk, Greg Bryk, Noah Dalton Danby, Ted Atherton, Natasha Henstridge | Written by Craig Davidson, Andrew Thomas Hunt | Directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt The Fight Machine is the second of two very different movies based on novels by Craig Davidson that Raven Banner debuted at this year’s edition of […]
