Stars: Deiondre Teagle, Faith Monique, Travis Cutner, Brad Belemjian, Scot Scurlock | Written and Directed by Charlie Steeds Death Ranch sees writer/director Charlie Steeds (The Barge People, An English Haunting) mixing blaxploitation films with grindhouse horror and, at times, healthy doses of black humour. The result is a gory, over-the-top exercise in bad taste that […]
Stars: Bruce Willis, Swen Temmel, Kate Katzman, Zack Ward, Chad Michael Murray, Kristos Andrews, Donna D’Errico, Canyon Prince, Michael Sirow | Written by Ross Peacock | Directed by James Cullen Bressack Survive the Game is the fourth Bruce Willis film I’ve reviewed this year. The first three, Cosmic Sin, Midnight in the Switchgrass and Out […]
Stars: Steve Vanderzee, Eric Stone, Lowell Deo, Tonya M. Skoog, Meranda Long, Angela DiMarco, Marcus Leppard, Brad Jesernig, Nick Sage Palmieri, Luke Schuck, Jeffrey Arrington, Scott C Brown | Written and Directed by Jeremy Berg People say they would kill to be famous. Most of them, of course, wouldn’t. But would they keep quiet and […]
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier | Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux If the name Quentin Dupieux rings a bell with you it may well be for his film Rubber, a monster movie in which the monster is a murderous tire. Deerskin doesn’t have any killer tires, but it does have […]
Stars: Ariel Sekiya, Takeaki Abe, Miharu Chiba | Written and Directed by Masaya Kato Despite its title, Ouija Japan is not another carbon copy film about a bunch of kids summoning evil spirits. For one thing, the characters are all grown women. For another in this film the entity doesn’t bother killing them, it traps […]
Stars: Dane Oliver, Jeffrey Byron, Thomas Shevela, Christina Hélène Braa, Michael Paré, Amanda Wyss, Alex Keener, Amanda Jones, Josh Cole, Hannah Hueston | Written and Directed by William Butler Coming from Full Moon Films and bearing the title The Resonator: Miskatonic U, it isn’t hard to guess this is a sequel to Stuart Gordon’s 80s […]
Stars: Jey Reynolds, Brendan Hines, Tatjana Marjanovic, Ola Kaminska, Kevin Daniels | Written and Directed by Chris Beyrooty, Connor Martin If a pandemic is going to strand you somewhere The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel would seem to be the ideal location to be forced to shelter in place. The oldest continually operating hotel in Los Angeles, […]
Stars: Oghenero Gbaje, DeShawn White, Lenny Thomas, Nick Damici, Lori Hammel | Written and Directed by Timothy Covell Writer/director Timothy Covell starts Blood Conscious where most genre films end, after the massacre. Kevin (Oghenero Gbaje), his older sister Brittney (DeShawn White; Motherless Brooklyn), and her fiancé Tony (Lenny Thomas; Diego of the Dead) are planning […]
Stars: Emily Wyatt, Tamaryn Payne, Naomi Willow, David English, Ian Champion, Jon Glasgow, Emma Spurgin Hussey, Rory Wilton | Written and Directed by David Creed Sacrilege begins with a man running screaming from a darkened house. He fumbles with his car keys as his body begins to smoke and then burst into flames. He stumbles […]
Stars: Miles Watts, Tony Hipwell, Hannah Bungard, Alan Melikdjanian, Joanne Mitchell, Andrew Dunn, Andrina Carroll, Lyndsey Craine, Victoria Delaney, Peet Torjussen, Gemma-Louise Keane, Jennifer Jordan | Written and Directed by Miles Watts, Tony Hipwell, Hannah Bungard Zomblogalypse began life as a series of fifteen-minute episodes that ran on YouTube from 2008 to 2011. The tale […]
Stars: Antoine Perry, Rosie Moss, Melanie Haynes, Laurine Price, Cole Gerdes, Leah Verrill | Written and Directed by Reed Shusterman The script for Blood Born wants to tap into some of the deepest and most primal of human fears and instincts. The desire to have children and the fears of the complications that come with […]
Stars: Luke Stevenson, Michelle Archer, J. Taviner, Silas Welsh, Nicholas Taviner, Louisa Warren, Taylor Rae Papworth | Written and Directed by Steven M. Smith Judging by his latest film, The Haunting of Hythe House, writer/director/producer Steven M. Smith (I Am Hooligan, Scare Attraction) is a little upset that his films haven’t been getting good reviews. […]
Stars: Samantha Coolidge, Ryan Dalton, Drew Patrick, Houston Baker, A.T. Tomas, Jeff Kirkendall, Cassandra Hayes | Written by John Oak Dalton | Directed by Mark Polonia With Denis Villeneuve’s Dune getting its first festival showings, Mark Polonia, (Virus Shark, Shark Encounters of the Third Kind) is here to cash in with Dune World. And not […]
Stars: Cassandra Magrath, John Voce, Nicholas Denton, Nikola Dubois, Lee Mason | Written by Darren Markey | Directed by Kate Whitbread Filmed and released in its native Australia as The Unlit, Witches of Blackwood is a slow-burning tale of family secrets and dark heritages. How does writer Darren Markey and director Kate Whitbread’s (Surviving Georgia) […]
Stars: Ezra Dewey, Rob Brownstein, Tevy Poe, John Erickson, Donald Pitts | Written and Directed by David Charbonier, Justin Powell Writer/directors David Charbonier and Justin Powell follow up their tale of the all too real horrors of human trafficking, The Boy Behind the Door, with another tale of a young boy forced to fight for […]
Stars: Jay Pickett, Tom Skerritt, Mason McNulty, Gattlin Griffith, Callder Griffith, Cody Jones, Peter Facinelli | Written by Jerry Robbins | Directed by Michael Feifer Westerns seem to be popping up all over the DTV and VOD markets in the last year or so. From Hell on the Border, Righteous Blood and the upcoming Apache […]
Stars: Devon Sawa, Tasha Reign, Danny Trejo, Julian Sands, Ashley Wisdom, Kim Director, Sean Waltman, Lee Ving, Eli Roth, James Cullen Bressack, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska | Written and Directed by Glenn Danzig I’m not sure what’s more surprising, that I’m reviewing a movie called Death Rider in the House of Vampires or that, after […]
Stars: Chynna Walker, Richard Rennie, Mel Mede, Ken ’Gabby’ Mertz, Allen Lyster | Written by Gerald Rascionato, Joel Hogan | Directed by Gerald Rascionato Claw, the latest film from director Gerald Rascionato (Triassic Hunt, Open Water 3: Cage Dive) and co-writer Joel Hogan has a bit of an identity crisis. The trailer promises a straightforward […]
