Stars: Sean Young, Daphne O’Neal, Jack Pearson, Kayla Fields, Eric Roberts, Geoff Meed | Written and Directed by Geoff Meed In the opening minutes of DC Down, Washington DC is hit by an earthquake that, among other things, causes the roof of The White House to collapse trapping President Powell (Sean Young; Planet Dune, Blade […]
Stars: Harvey Almond, Matthew Laird, Richard Summers-Calvert, Mia Lacostena, Jodi Hutton | Written by Charley McDougall | Directed by Louisa Warren Cannibal Cabin, formerly Cannibal Lake, opens in 2002 with a trio of vacationers, one of whom is very pregnant, planning to spend a weekend jet skiing at a lake next to what looks like […]
Stars: Mike Beckingham, Mhairi Calvey, Grahame Fox, Wayne Gordon, David Hayman | Written by Philip Daay | Directed by Paul Dudbridge First things first, Fear the Invisible Man is not a sequel to the 2020 version of The Invisible Man although I’m sure the film’s makers won’t mind if you think so. Instead, it’s an […]
Stars: Jason Tremblay, Jaime M. Callica, Bruce Crawford, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Peter Bundic, Michael Eklund, Fletcher Donovan, Donna Benadicto | Written by Jordan Robinson | Directed by Nicholas Humphries A trap house, I remember when they were called crack houses, is a house used for making and selling drugs. In the new Tubi Original of […]
Stars: Diane Robin, Mark Justice, Jessica Morris, Timothy Haug, Steven Martini, Vernon Wells, Chris Levine | Written and Directed by Michael Matteo Rossi Murder Syndicate opens with Isa (Diane Robin; Bad President, RoboCop) driving her car and dealing with her three squabbling offspring, Cain (Mark Justice; Mojave Diamonds, Don’t F*ck in the Woods 2), Becca […]
Stars: Theo Rossi, Kim Coates, Shane Paul McGhie, Anthony ‘Treach’ Criss, Dermot Mulroney, Sufe Bradshaw, Ritchie Montgomery | Written by Chad Law, Garry Charles | Directed by Jared Cohn The Getback is the latest “Tubi Original”, but I’m not sure that’s really accurate as there’s almost nothing original about this film. Mal Cooper (Theo Rossi; […]
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Jake Manley, Alexandria DeBerry, John Cusack, Andrew Stevens, William Katt, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow | Written by Brian Skiba, Ben Fiore, Dawn Bursteen | Directed by Brian Skiba It took about ten minutes for me to realize that Pursuit was going to be an epic shitshow. That’s how long it takes to get […]
Stars: Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Venus Ariel, Carlos Solorzan, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Jorge A. Jimenez | Written by Carlos Cisco, Boise Esquerra | Directed by Adrian Grunberg After the trainwreck that was Cocaine Shark and with the spectre of Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge looming over me, The Black Demon, or any other shark film for […]
Stars: Laya DeLeon Hayes, Edem Atsu-Swanzy, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Beth Felice, Reilly Brooke Stith, Keith Holliday | Written and Directed by Bomani J. Story The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is not the first version of Frankenstein set in the Black community. There was Black Frankenstein, better known as Blackenstein, back in […]
Stars: Paul Kandarian, Anna Shields, James Liddell, Chris Cimperman, Caitlin Duffy, Michael L. Parker | Written and Directed by Bruce Wemple First Contact, the latest film from writer/director Bruce Wemple, sees him mixing the monster movie themes that he’s used in films like Dawn of the Beast with the time travel and sci-fi concepts from […]
Stars: Neil Bishop, Zoe Cunningham, Martin Bishop, Zed Josef, Jonny Phillips | Written by David Trotti | Directed by Marianna Dean Breaking Infinity is the kind of film I both love and dread seeing on my review schedule. I love it because indie science fiction is frequently full of interesting ideas and concepts that bigger-budget […]
Written by Gary Smart, Neil Morris | Directed by Christopher Griffiths, Gary Smart Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story picks up with a 12-year-old Robert being sent to theatre camp getting attention from girls and being complimented by talk show host Steve Allen. That, especially the female attention, pointed him toward his career. […]
Stars: Jenny Raven, Dillon Casey, Vanessa Smythe, Mercedes Morris, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Michael Xavier, Kenny Wong, Brendan Fehr, Ennis Esmer | Written by Dennis Heaton | Directed by Eric Tessier The Amityville Curse seemed to bear a couple of its own curses. It’s an Amityville knockoff and after Amityville Cult, Amityville Thanksgiving, Amityville in the Hood, […]
Stars: Daniel Caltagirone, Adam Deacon, Lois Brabin-Platt, Max Lohan, Eric Roberts, Marco Leonardi, Georges St-Pierre, Lucas Aurelio, Elijah Rowen, Bentley Kalu | Written and Directed by Savvas D. Michael Twenty-five years on from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels the British gangster revival is still going strong. Case in point Hitmen, the new film from […]
Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Daniel Arnold, Madison Walsh, Helen Belay, Roseanne Supernault, Kyra Harper, Luke Moore | Written by Berkley Brady, Tim Cairo | Directed by Berkley Brady Dark Nature begins with a much different, and more realistic horror than what follows. Joy (Hannah Emily Anderson; What Keeps You Alive, X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is busy in […]
Stars: Rico Verhoeven, Marie Dompnier, Peter Franzén, Frank Grillo, Roland Møller, Rona-Lee Shimon, Pippi Casey, Magnus Samuelsson, Simon Wan | Written by Tad Daggerhart | Directed by Todor Chapkanov I was set to cover Black Lotus when it was released in the UK a month from now when, to my surprise, a friend announced it […]
Stars: Stacy Aung, Heidi Hemlock, Brian Easter Jr., Marlene Mc’Cohen, Samuel Code, Randy Oppenheimer, Jessie Vane, Veronica Ricci | Written by Dennis Devine, Drake Cola | Directed by Dennis Devine If you’re familiar with Sterling Films then you’ll know what you’re getting into as soon as you see their name during the opening credits for […]
Stars: Leah Gibson, Anthony Bolognese, Sebastien Roberts, Anthony Konechny, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jon Voight | Written by Alex Wright | Directed by Tony Dean Smith Die Hard came out thirty-five years ago and we’re still seeing a steady stream of knock-offs rip-offs and cash-ins arriving. Case in point, Mercy, which like last year’s Assault on […]
Stars: Haven Lee Harris, Augie Duke, Brionne Davis, Morgana Ignis, Maria Olsen, Téa Mckay, Timothy Lee DePriest, Angelica Ulloa, Phillip E. Walker, Emily Meister | Written and Directed by Ryan Stevens Harris Anyone who grew up in a dysfunctional household knows just how traumatic childhood can be. In Moon Garden, writer/director Ryan Stevens Harris (Shred […]
Stars: Louis Mandylor, Samm Wiechec, Kevin Gage, Lori Pelenise Tuisano, Lucía Vilmo, Victor Chen | Written and Directed by Yadhu Krishnan As if seeing him in Adrenaline wasn’t enough, Louis Mandylor (Battle for Saipan, The Doorman) is back in Crossfire, another film about an FBI agent dealing with the revenge killing of a family member. […]
Stars: Constance Payne, Costas Mandylor, James Stokes, Louis Mandylor | Written by Adrian Milnes | Directed by Massimiliano Cerchi FBI Agent Victoria Travers (Constance Payne; Doomsday Stories, After We Collided) seems to be some kind of adrenaline junkie. She has a habit of doing things her own way, risks be damned. And after once again […]
