25th Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Cyst’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Greg Sestero, Eva Habermann, Jason Douglas, Gene Jones, George Hardy, Darren Ewing, Francesca Santoro, Kyle Roberts | Written by Tyler Russell, Andy Silverman | Directed by Tyler Russell It’s the early 1960s and a small-town doctor invents a machine that uses laser technology to remove skin abnormalities. He pulls out all the stops to […]

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25th Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Heckle’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Guy Coombes, Steve Guttenberg, Clark Gable III, Toyah Wilcox, Nicholas Vince, Madison Clare, Louis Selwyn, Stephanie Leigh Rose, Natasha Starkey, Helena Antonio | Written by Airell Anthony Hayles | Directed by Martyn Pick Airell Anthony Hayles, who penned and co-directed They’re Outside, the found-footage meets YouTube, pagan-eqsue horror which screened at Frightfest in August, […]

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25th Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Spare Parts’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Julian Richings, Michelle Argyris, Emily Alatalo, Jason Rouse, Kiriana Stanton, Chelsea Muirhead, Ryan Allen, Kathryn Kohut | Written by David Murdoch, Svet Rouskov | Directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere – an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, rip the stage apart with their anarchy spirit. Their […]

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25th Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Babysitter Must Die’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Riley Scott, Robert Scott Smith, Kristen Marie Jensen, Melina Yeaman, Nathan Stevens, Scarlett Hazen | Written by Julie Auerbach, Kohl Glass, Kevin Tavolaro | Directed by Kohl Glass Josie Jane (Riley Scott), the young babysitter for a wealthy family, just found the perfect hiding spot for a game of hide-and-seek with the child in […]

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25th Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘The Banishing’ Review

by Kevin Haldon

Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, John Lynch, Sean Harris, Anya-Mckenna Bruce, John Heffernan | Written by David Beton, Ray Bogdanovich | Directed by Christopher Smith The Banishing sees the re-teaming of Christopher Smith and Sean Harris (Creep) for an old school traditional horror with a gnarly new school modern twist that proves the haunted house genre […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Held’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Jill Awbrey, Bart Johnson, Rez Kempton, Zack Gold, Jener Dasilva, Tessa Munro | Written by Jill Awbrey | Directed by Travis Cluff, Chris Lofing A lot of movies begin with an overhead show of a car driving down a long deserted road. Ominous, sure, but something we’ve seen many many times before. That is, […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Concrete Plans’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Steve Spiers, Chris Reilly, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Willaim Thomas, Goran Bogdan, Amber Rose Revah, Kevin Guthrie, James Lance | Written and Directed by Will Jewell Five misfit builders coming together to work on a farmhouse in some remote Welsh mountains don’t seem like the basis for a horror film. But Concrete Plans, a very British […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Tailgate’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Anniek Pheifer, Roosmarijn van der Hoek, Liz Vergeer, Willem de Wolf, Truus te Selle, Hubert Fermin, Tim Linde | Written and Directed by Lodewijk Crijns Hans is a self-confident, cocksure man who decides to visit his parents on the other side of the country. With his wife and two young daughters along […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Breeder’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘The Pale Door’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Melora Walters, Zachary Knighton, Stan Shaw, Noah Segan, Bill Sage, Natasha Bassett, Pat Healy, Devin Druid, James Landry Hébert, Tina Parker, Alexandra Harris, Peggy Schott, Da Leigh, Jeremy King, Jennifer Rader | Written by Cameron Burns, Aaron B. Koontz, Keith Lansdale | Directed by Aaron B. Koontz After gang leader Duncan reluctantly recruits his […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Don’t Look Back’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Kourtney Bell, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeffrey Holm, Jaqueline Fleming, Amanda Grace Benitez, Damon Lipari, Han Soto, Dean J. West, Stephen Twardokus | Written and Directed by Jeffrey Reddick Writer/director Jeffrey Reddick has a lot of form when it comes to supernatural horror. Not only did he create the long-running Final Destination franchise but […]

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23rd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Dead’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Thomas Sainsbury, Hayden J. Weal, Jess Sayer, Jennifer Ward-Leland, Tomai Ihaia | Written by Thomas Sainsbury | Directed by Hayden J. Weal Imagine if Michael J. Fox’s character in The Frighteners could only see ghost and ghouls if he took hard drugs… and was an idiot. That’s Dead in a nutshell! Marbles, a hapless […]

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23rd Oct2020

‘WWE NXT’ Review (Oct 21st 2020)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s NXT review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and my hopes of being a plus-sized stripper-pole dancer went down in flames like the Hindenburg. We’ve got a big Tag Team Title main event that makes me feel like a natural woman…but not a big bitch on tall pole! I wanna […]

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22nd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘The Brain That Wouldn’t Die’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Rachael Perrell Fosket, Patrick D. Green, David Withers, Jason Reynolds, Robert Blanche, Mia Allen, Julia Bray, Gaelle Lola Beauvais, Alex Tiefenthaler | Written by Hank Huffman | Directed by Derek Carl Remember back in 1998 when everyone threw their arms in the arms and complained incessantly about Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of Alfred […]

22nd Oct2020

Frightfest 2020: ‘Sacrifice’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Barbara Crampton, Sophie Stevens, Ludovic Hughes, Lukas Loughran | Written and Directed by Andy Collier, Toor Mian Inspired not only by a short story called Men of the Cloth, Sacrifice is VERY heavily influenced by the works of H.P. Lovecraft; a writer whose influence has always been felt on the genre (films such Re-Animator, […]

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22nd Oct2020

Rewind: ‘Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein, Scott Wilson, Robert Englund, Bridgett Newton | Written by Scott Glosserman, David J. Stieve | Directed by Scott Glosserman I don’t always have a reason to go back to older movies for review, but having just recently revisited this movie, I had to talk about it. Why? Well, […]

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22nd Oct2020

‘AEW: Dynamite’ Review (Oct 21st 2020)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have…well, it’s terrible. If I have to suffer through it, you have to loathe waiting to hear about it. DO YOU GET WHAT I’M F—KING SAYING TO YOU, ASS-HOLE?! IT’S A F—KING SHIT-STORM AND YOU HAVE TO […]

21st Oct2020

‘On Halloween’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Giselle van der Wiel, Telen Rodwell, Aaron J. March, Robert Harrell, James Pratt, Daniel Musial, Ezekiel Simat, Conor Fogarty, Brandon Paterson, Ivan Topic, Anna Bauert, Daniel Cummings, Terry Serio, Patch May, Barbara Hastings | Written and Directed by Timothy Doyle Oftentimes I’ll find myself looking for a new film to watch on sites like […]

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21st Oct2020

‘Bullets of Justice’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Timur Turisbekov, Danny Trejo, Doroteya Toleva, Yana Marinova | Written by Valeri Milev, Timur Turisbekov | Directed by Valeri Milev [With the film available on digital/VOD now, here’s a reposting of our review of the insane Bullets of Justice] During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in […]

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21st Oct2020

‘Eraserhead’ Blu-ray Review (Criterion)

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates | Written and Directed by David Lynch David Lynch is well known for being a director who is not ashamed to go to some bizarre places, a man known for his surrealism, his specific and individualistic tone in works like Twin Peaks, Lost Highway and this, […]

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21st Oct2020

‘DC: The Doomed and The Damned #1’ Review (DC Comics)

by Dean Fuller

Written by Various | Art by Various | Published by DC Comics When it comes to over-sized special edition comics, DC seemingly can’t wait to whip up a steady stream of one after another. That’s not a complaint, mind you, just an observation. These 80 Page Giants must be good-sellers for DC, and although nearly […]

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21st Oct2020

‘Impact Wrestling’ Review (Oct 20th 2020)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Wendi Richter giving The Fabulous Moolah the fabulous finger for being a fabulous bitch. Hey, Bound For Glory is coming this Saturday. Are you ready for the final build toward Impact’s biggest card of the year? Well, get […]

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