Stars: Gordon Mudd, Jonas Silbor, Andi Rexha, Andrew J Katers, Angela Cole, David Chokachi, Rebecca Ritz, Canyon Prince | Written by Ryan Ebert | Directed by Jimmy Gadd When they’re not churning out mockbusters, The Asylum manages to produce films like Shark Warning at a pretty good pace as well. And with fall having arrived, […]
Stars: Ana Dragovich, Stephen Kristof, Sarah Elizabeth, Brent Bentley, Craig Benzine, Adam Hinkle, Terry Holt, Samuel James Howard, Janet Jurado | Written and Directed by Jake Jarvi Haunt Season is the latest in a long line of scary attractions turned into real houses of horror, films like Haunt and Teddy Told Me To. Of course, you can […]
Stars: Zoltan Torok, Robert Lewis Stephenson, Zack Gold, Whit Kunschik, Madonna Young Magee, Alan Dorfmeier, Jim Tuck | Written by Jon Sarro | Directed by Cody Ashford Drive Back begins with a young Reid (Zoltan Torok) sitting in the woods sketching when a shot rings out and a deer falls near him. That’s followed by the […]
Stars: Adam Jones, Alexandrea Meyer | Written and Directed by Truman Kewley Some films are destined to be controversial, and I have a strong feeling that writer/director Truman Kewley’s debut feature Beautiful Friend is one of them. It’s something of a modern version of The Collector, the 1965 film, not the 2009 Saw knockoff. That […]
Stars: Francisco Ortiz, Marta Poveda, Yuri Mykhaylychenko, José María Yazpik | Written by Ángel Agudo | Directed by Carles Torrens Spain has given us some masterful films about the walking dead over the years, including The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Tombs of the Blind Dead and its sequels, and more recently the REC franchise. […]
Stars: William Baldwin, April Mae Davis, Michael Paré, Kate Hodge, Jessy Holtermann, Jack Pearson | Written by Marc Gottlieb | Directed by Christopher Ray War of the Worlds: Extinction is a followup to The Asylum’s 2021 film War of the Worlds: Annihilation, but in the opening montage, however, the film flips the script entirely, revealing […]
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, Louis Mandylor, Tofan Pirani, Melody Prapassorn, Chante Evans, Myles Clohessy, Gary Cairns, Peter Dobson, Elliot Allison | Written by Brandon Slagle | Directed by Louis Mandylor Operation Blood Hunt is the film we wanted after Dog Soldiers showed us all that werewolves and soldiers could be a great […]
Stars: Antonia Gentry, Megan Best, Madison Bailey, Graham Ashmore, Griffin Gluck | Written by Hannah Macpherson, Michael Kennedy | Directed by Hannah Macpherson If the plot of Time Cut sounds a bit familiar, it should, Totally Killer covered much of the same ground not that long ago. But despite being released second, Time Cut was […]
Stars: Ego Mikitas, Maxi Witrak, Terrance Livingston Jr., Lydia Hunter, Michael Deni, Tania Fox, Natasha Goubskaya | Written by Ryan Ebert, Anna Rasmussen | Directed by Glenn Campbell, Tammy Klein The biggest surprise about Shark Side of the Moon is that, in a genre that’s already seen Sharks of the Corn, Sharkula, Ouija Shark and […]
Stars: Tess Haubrich, Michael Biehn, Nathan Jones, Angie Milliken | Written by Ryan Coonan, Richard Barcaricchio | Directed by Ryan Coonan Rippy, originally entitled The Red before getting retitled to riff on the old kid’s show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, is the latest creature feature from down under. As if Australia didn’t already have enough […]
Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Tim Roth, Marysia S. Peres, Abigail Breslin, Kim DeLonghi | Written by Bob DeRosa | Directed by Roel Reiné Classified is a title with a double meaning. It not only refers to the work C.I.A. assassin Evan (Aaron Eckhart; London Has Fallen, Chief of Station) does, but it’s how he gets the […]
Stars: Kelly Tappan, Richard Colm-Lee, Sylvie Mohr, Vivian Hunter, Ryosuke Sekoguchi, Vas Provatakis, Joshua Morgan, Mateo Taylor, Donna Rae Allen, Madison M. Bowman, David Raizor | Written and Directed by Joshua Morgan As Children of the Pines begins, a voiceover tells us, “Sadness will ground you in ways that happiness could only dream of doing.” […]
Stars: Joshua Tonks, Chris Lines, Rosie Edwards, Elliot Hadley, Jake Watkins, Michaela Longden, Ray Calleja, Jon Holmes | Written and Directed by Charlie Steeds Lord of Wolves, the latest film from British writer/director Charlie Steeds, marks the third time he’s taken on the subject of lycanthropy. Unlike A Werewolf in England and Werewolf Castle, Lord […]
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 […]
Stars: Darren Stevens, Mark Templin, Peter Whittaker, Ellen Mildred, Melanie Evans | Written by Trevor Payer | Directed by Brett Kelly [NOTE: Nerdly’s Managing Editor Phil is listed as an Executive Producer on the following film, however that does not, and will not, affect the outcome of this review] Does anyone remember a film from […]
Stars: Tanner Stine, Ali Larter, Ryan Whitney, Angela Halili, Justin Long, Kaylee Kaneshiro, Tony Amendola | Written by John Cregan | Directed by Gavin Wiesen It’s 1978 in Jenkins, Texas, and, with their parents away, a group of teens decides to play spin the bottle in the basement of one of the group’s houses. The […]
Written by Jordan Downey, Kevin Stewart, Virat Pal, Evan Dickson, Justin Martinez, Benjamin A. Turner, Christian and Justin Long, Mike Flanagan | Directed by Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Virat Pal, Justin Martinez, Christian and Justin Long, Kate Siegel The seventh instalment in the long-running found footage franchise, V/H/S/Beyond, sees the series change its focus somewhat, […]
Stars: Scott Adkins, Jack Parr, Alice Eve, Madalina Bellariu Ion, Alba de Torrebruna | Written by Nick McKinless, Joshua Todd James | Directed by Nick McKinless Take Cover is yet another take on one of, if not the most used plots in film, ready for retirement the protagonist, be they a spy, thief or killer […]
Stars: Jackie Chan, Wei Xiang, Han Yanbo, Temur Mamisashvili, Shi Ce | Written by Meng Yida, Xu Wei | Directed by Zhang Luan Panda Plan (aka Xiong Mao Ji Hua) opens on a highly meta note as action star Jackie Chan, played by Jackie Chan (Hidden Strike, Rumble in the Bronx) takes out an entire […]
Stars: Natalie Biggs, Darren Randall, Kansas Bowling, Charlotte Wallis, Adam Probets, Sadie Kime, Jon-Paul Gates, Kitty Sudbery, Sophie Bullock | Written and Directed by Jason M.J. Brown Creep Encounters opens at the site where a UFO has made a crash landing. The government is claiming that it’s a small plane that crashed and is trying […]
