Stars: Bailee Madison, Anthony Turpel, Chris Lee, Jerry O’Connell, Sterling Beaumon, Chris Butler, Lestonja Diaz, Kyler O’Neal, Jorge-Luis Pallo | Written by Simon Boyes, Adam Mason | Directed by Patrick Lussier Patrick Lussier parlayed a career editing everything from the original MacGyver to films by Wes Craven and Guillermo del Toro to Apollo 18 into […]
Stars: Jilon VanOver, Eddie Spears, Tony Denison, Jon Proudstar, Jessie Prez, Rachel Cerda | Written and Directed by Steve Laughlin Deep Woods, the first feature from writer/director Steve Laughlin, begins in quite a different location, the opulent chrome and glass offices of the architectural firm owned by Ty Ellsworth (Jilon VanOver; The Field Guide to […]
Stars: Colton Tran, Victoria Moroles, Anna Grace Barlow, James Gaisford, Johnny Berchtold, Patrick Fabian, Jonathan Bennett | Written by Luke Genton | Directed by Colton Tran Snow Falls opens with a warning sign, a pair of ravens sitting on the sign welcoming the characters to the town of Snow Falls. A bigger warning sign for […]
Stars: Bruce Willis, Jack Kilmer, Willow Shields, Lochlyn Munro, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Timothy V. Murphy, Dina Meyer | Written by Edward Drake, Corey Large | Directed by Edward Drake Detective Knight: Independence completes the trilogy begun in Detective Knight: Rogue and continued in Detective Knight: Redemption. Although not the last of his films to be released, […]
Stars: Grant Schumacher, Rick Montgomery Jr., Caitlin Duffy, Andrew Gombas, William Champion, George Katt, Ariella Mastroianni | Written and Directed by Bruce Wemple With The Tomorrow Job writer/director Bruce Wemple steps away from the creature features like Monstrous and Dawn of the Beast that he’s been making lately to go back to the time paradox […]
Stars: Dominic Mariche, Ben Tector, Asher Grayson, Phoebe Rex, Calem McDonald, Jonathan Torrens | Written by John Davies | Directed by Jason Eisener Kids vs. Aliens gets off to a promising start as the crew of a fishing boat witness a UFO splashdown near them and are quickly decimated by its occupants. The scene then cuts […]
Stars: Zach Gilford, Alisha Wainwright, Amanda Crew, Carlos Santos, David Mattle, Briella Guiza | Written by T.J. Cimfel, David White | Directed by Roxanne Benjamin There’s Something Wrong with the Children opens to the bombastically ominous strains of The Sisters of Mercy’s “More” playing over tinted footage of children running and a storm rolling in. […]
Stars: Julian Sands, Anthony Skordi, Maria Ioannou, Mark Huberman, Marianna Rosset, Kristina Godunova, Flavia Watson, Elva Trill | Written by Francesco Cinquemani, Andy Edwards, Barry Keating, Mark Thompson-Ashworth | Directed by Francesco Cinquemani The Hotel Gula, stately, luxurious and abandoned for over twenty years since the food for a party’s banquet was seasoned with rat […]
Stars: Jeffrey Owens, Mason Owens, Paul Owens, Seth Owens, Jane Gale | Written and Directed by Paul Owens LandLocked is an interesting twist on both the found footage film and the time travel film, one that combines reality and fiction in an unsettling manner. Much like Kyle Edward Ball did with Skinamarink, writer/director Paul Owens […]
Stars: Jhey Castles, Lindsey Marie Wilson, Michael Paré, Presley Alexander, Jolene Andersen, Lauren Elyse Buckley, Phillip Andre Botello, Natalie Daniels, Josh Duhon | Written by Marc Gottlieb | Directed by Michael Su The tagline for The Asylum’s latest film 2025 Armageddon reads “Welcome to the Multiverse”. But the film actually has less in common with […]
Written and Directed by Seth Breedlove On the Trail of Bigfoot: Last Frontier takes the hunt for Sasquatch to the most remote place you can get in the United States, Alaska. Maybe it’s because of its remoteness and the difficulty of getting around but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of other research on […]
Stars: Tom Sizemore, Natalie Storrs, Mark Ricketson, Kristos Andrews. Plastic Martyr | Written by Joe Roche, Rolfe Kanefsky | Directed by Noah Luke Battle for Pandora is The Asylum’s mockbuster answer to Avatar: The Way of Water, although the trailer looked like it was as much inspired by James Cameron’s earlier film The Abyss, and […]
Stars: Colin Bates, Jordan Ver Hoeve, Andrew Matthew Welch, Makenzie Vega, Sierra McCormick, Will Peltz, Spencer List, Leah Pipes | Written by Carl Moellenberg, Anthony Del Negro | Directed by Jon Abrahams Exploited gets off to a start that certainly lives up to its title as webcam performer Caleb (Colin Bates; Naked Normandy, I Didn’t […]
Stars: Reese Fast, Yetlanezi Rodriguez, Angie Sandoval, Kevin Kinkade, Addison Cousins | Written and Directed by Anubys Lopez Those Who Call opens somewhere outside of Whispering Pines TX, Population 53. Lauren (Reese Fast) loses her cell reception and a tire within minutes of each other. We know it’s going to happen because she was just […]
Stars: Kira Guloien, Oona Chaplin, Ramón Rodríguez, Liane Balaban, Alex Karzis | Written by Alex Greenfield, Ben Powell | Directed by John R. Leonetti Lullaby is the latest film from genre director John R. Leonetti (Annabelle, Wish Upon), This time, working from a script by former WWE writer Alex Greenfield and Ben Powell, who also […]
Stars: Maca Suárez, Aldana Ruberto, Anahí Politi, Sofía Rossi, Flor Moreno, Amanda Nara | Written by Maxi Ferzzola | Directed by Pablo Parés PussyCake was certainly one of the more gonzo films to do the film festival circuit this year. But as the latest film from Argentinian director Pablo Parés who also gave us the […]
Stars: Jeff Kirkendall, Titus Himmelberger, Michael Korotitsch, Tim Hatch | Written by Mark Polonia, Aaron Drake | Directed by Mark Polonia Somehow I managed to miss Amityville in Space when it was released earlier this year. Doubly odd as it’s not only an Amityville film, it was directed by Mark Polonia who co-wrote it with […]
Stars: Toby Wynn-Davies, Sian Altman, Daniel Godfrey, Nicola Wright, Matthew Marcelis | Written by Tom Jolliffe | Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Scott Jeffrey Dr. Devlin (Toby Wynn-Davies; Nefarious, The Ghosts of Borley Rectory) is on the verge of a breakthrough. I’m not entirely sure what his techno-babble means, even his intern Anna (Sian Altman; The […]
Stars: David Howard Thornton, Krystle Martin, Chase Mullins, John Bigham, Erik Baker, Flip Kobler, Amy Schumacher | Written by Flip and Fin Kobler | Directed by Steven LaMorte The Mean One, along with Mad Heidi and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is part of an unexpected crop of horror and exploitation films based on […]
Stars: Martin Lawrence, Melissa Roxburgh, John Malkovich, Chris Mullinax, Nellie Sciutto | Written by Reggie Keyohara III | Directed by Mauro Borrelli Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys, Wild Hogs) is known for his comedic roles, but in Mindcage he plays it straight as Detective Jake Doyle who along with his partner Mary Kelly (Melissa Roxburgh; The […]
Stars: Todd Lubitsch, Janice Angela Burt, Joshua Rose, Ruby Setnik, Greg Sestero, Caleb Lush, Louise Harding, Jason Kuykendall, Vernon Wells, Lori Richardson, Ian Hopps, Devin Valdez, Dave Sheridan | Written and Directed by Robert Livings, Randy Nundlall Jr Surprisingly not titled A V/H/S Christmas, or as close to that as the lawyers would allow, The […]
