11th Apr2022

‘Let The Wrong One In’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Karl Rice, Eoin Duffy, Hilda Fay, David Pearse, Mary Murray, Anthony Head | Written and Directed by Conor McMahon You might think that you don’t know a lot of Irish horror movies but you either didn’t realise certain films were made in Ireland or by Irish filmmakers or you’re not watching the right films! […]

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08th Apr2022

‘The Haunting of Pendle Hill’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Lowri Watts-Joyce, Noel McAlley, Jeffrey Charles Richards, Mark Topping, Jimmy ‘The Bee’ Bennett, James Hamer-Morton, Nicolas Ball | Written and Directed by Richard John Taylor Having grown up in the shadow of Pendle Hill, there’s no way I could not check out a horror film set in the very area we learnt about in […]

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08th Apr2022

Buried Alive Film Festival 2022: ‘What Happens Next Will Scare You’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Kalima Young, Melissa LaMartina, Paul Fahrenkopf, John Bennett, George Stover | Written by Chris LaMartina, Jimmy George | Directed by Chris LaMartina What Happens Next Will Scare You is the latest film from Chris LaMartina and Jimmy George who also gave us the WNUF Halloween Special and Call Girl of Cthulhu among other films. […]

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08th Apr2022

Buried Alive Film Festival 2022: ‘Duyster’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Maïmouna Badjie, Charles De Meester, Tristan Feyten, Stefaan Degand, Sven De Ridder, Margaux Vandecasteele | Written by Thomas Vanbrabant | Directed by Thomas Vanbrabant, Jordi Ostir Johannes Duyster was the city of Antwerp’s executioner from 1606 to 1613. On February 5th, 2020 three college students were given a video production assignment, they chose him […]

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08th Apr2022

Video Review: ‘Gold’ – Is This A Golden Nugget?

by Kevin Haldon

In his latest video, Kevin sits down once again to talk about the new Zac Efron flick Gold. Written and directed by Anthony Hayes, Gold is at its heart a story about what people will put themselves through in promise of something better… When two drifters are travelling through the South Australian desert, they stumble […]

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07th Apr2022

‘World Ends at Camp Z’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Anne-Carolyne Binette, Dean Persons, Michael Czemerys, Osawa Muskwa, Rafaela Salomão, Arthur Bussières Gallant | Written by Diane Janna | Directed by Ding Wang How long would it be until low budget horror films, try to cash in on the COVID pandemic? Well, World Ends at Camp Z is a Canadian film from January 2022. […]

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07th Apr2022

‘Hustle Down’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Tom Sizemore, Bai Ling, Paul Sidhu, Kevin Gage, Raymond J. Barry, Vanessa Angel, Noel Gugliemi, David Fernandez Jr., Victorya Brandart, Luis Gatica, Geoffrey Ross, Brad Potts | Written by Benjamin Budd | Directed by R. Ellis Frazier Like many low budget action films, there is a constant, uneasy tension between ambition and what is […]

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06th Apr2022

‘Win a Trip to Browntown’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: George A. Tramountanas, Kendra McDermott, Gabriel Conrad, Manoli P. Tramountanas, Eleanor Tramountanas, Heather Reynosa, Phillip Dean Silva, Amelia Samson, Sam Schragel, Kiana Vaziri, Danielle Daggerty, Àngels Ratés, Mel Massey | Written and Directed by George A. Tramountanas Win a Trip to Browntown is the kind of film that is explained perfectly by its title. […]

06th Apr2022

‘Godforsaken’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Chad Tailor, Mélie B. Rondeau, Katie Fleming, Domenic Derose, Nicole Fairbairn, Chris Kelly, JoAnn Bundock, Flora Burke, Dan Bieman, Pat Raftis | Written and Directed by Ali Akbar Akbar Kamal Do you remember how great the film [REC] was? Ali Akbar Akbar Kamal does. It looks so easy, to make a brilliant, handycam horror […]

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05th Apr2022

‘Barbarians’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tom Cullen, Ines Spiridonov, Will Kemp, Connor Swindells, Steve Saunders, Tommy McDonnell | Written by Charles Dorfman, Statten Roeg | Directed by Charles Dorfman Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Barbarians sees couple Adam (Iwan Rheon) and Eva (Catalina Sandino Moreno) wake up in their supposed dream house […]

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04th Apr2022

‘Morbius’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal, Zaris-Angel Hator, Charlie Shotwell, Joseph Esson, Joanna Burnett | Written by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless | Directed by Daniel Espinosa Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. […]

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01st Apr2022

‘Superhost’ Blu-ray Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Osric Chau, Sara Canning, Gracie Gillam, Barbara Crampton | Written and Directed by Brandon Christensen Superhost is the third film by writer/director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born) and the first that wasn’t co-written with Colin Minihan (It Stains the Sands Red, Spiral). It’s also the first that doesn’t revolve around parenthood. How well has he managed […]

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01st Apr2022

‘The Rideshare Killer’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Tuesday Knight, Victoria De Mare, Croix Provence, Jeffry Druce, Oliver Robins, James Balsamo, Shuja Paul, Anouk Samuel, Gavin Peretti, Eric Roberts | Written and Directed by Ashley Scott Meyers How many ride-sharing, serial killing, psychos are we going to get in horror movies? We seem to be getting a new rideshare horror movie at […]

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01st Apr2022

‘Prototype’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Danielle Scott, Andrew Rolfe, Stephanie Lodge, Tom Taplin, Jamie Robertson, Zoe Purdy, Luke Robinson | Written by Sam Gurney | Directed by Jack Peter Mundy Proportion Productions are back once again with ANOTHER slice of British genre filmmaking with Prototype – not to be confused with the recently released The Prototype – this time […]

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01st Apr2022

Video Review: ‘Assailant’ – Apologise to Her!

by Kevin Haldon

In his latest video, Kev sits down to review Assailant, the latest effort from Brit director Tom Paton… It is no secret that we here at Nerdly are fans of this director and his work to date but what did we think of his latest movie starring Casper Van Dien, Poppy Delevigne and Chad Micheal […]

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31st Mar2022

‘The Pond’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Marco Canadea, Paul Leonard Murray, Aleksandar Papajic, Leslie Soo | Written by Stefan Andrejic | Directed by Petar Pasic An anthropology professor is kicked out of his University just as he is claiming to be on the threshold of an apocalyptic discovery. While on suspension he becomes a pond-keeper and gets closer to his […]

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31st Mar2022

‘So Cold the River’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Alysia Reiner, David Myers Gregory, Deanna Dunagan, Kevin Cahoon, Andrew J. West, Katie Sarife | Written and Directed by Paul Shoulberg So Cold the River opens with former hotshot documentary director Erica Shaw (Bethany Joy Lenz; Thinner, One Tree Hill) making a slideshow for someone’s funeral. It’s about all the work […]

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31st Mar2022

‘The Occupant’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Caroline Nicolian, Nathan Hollabaugh, David Flick, Owen Miller, Rik Billock, Megan Bolton, Andrew Ashbrook Freed, Dylan Grunn, Julia Best Warner | Written and Directed by Samuel Krebs Let’s not mess around, The Whooper Returns is a terrible title for a film – which is why it’s been renamed for a wide US release as […]

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30th Mar2022

‘The Contractor’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Chris Pine, Gillian Jacobs, Sander Thomas, Ben Foster, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexej Manvelov | Written by J.P. Davis | Directed by Tarik Saleh The Contractor opens with the voice of a preacher delivering a sermon as we watch U.S. Special Forces sergeant, James Harper (Chris Pine; Star Trek, Z for Zachariah) go about his business, […]

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30th Mar2022

‘Night’s End’ Review (Shudder)

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Geno Walker, Kate Arrington, Felonius Munk, Michael Shannon, Daniel Kyri, Theo Germaine, Morgan S. Reesh, Lawrence Grimm | Written by Brett Neveu | Directed by Jennifer Reeder Jennifer Reeder, director of the highly-regarded Knives + Skin, is back behind the camera for Night’s End, a film that feels very apt given the past few […]

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30th Mar2022

Boston Underground Film Festival 2022 – Short Film Reviews #2

by Alain Elliott

A Family Affair A young couple and their son get an unwelcome visitor one snowy Christmas night. They know they could be in danger but fear that sending the stranger back outside might lead to her death. A Christmas set, snow-covered short coming in at about fifteen minutes, I was pretty sure I was going […]

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29th Mar2022

BUFF 2022: ‘Honeycomb’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Sophie Bawks-Smith, Jillian Frank, Mari Geraghty, Henri Gillespi, Max Graham, Reily Houlihan, Emmett Roiko, Destini Stewart, Jaris Wales, Rowan Wales | Written by Avalon Fast, Emmett Roiko | Directed by Avalon Fast After watching, and very much enjoying, my first handful of short films from the Boston Underground Film Festival I moved on to […]

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