Stars: Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Lydia Leonard, Avantika, Millicent Simmonds, Iris Apatow, Julian Krenn, Uma Thurman | Written by Kate Freund | Directed by Vicky Jewson Directed by Vicky Jewson and starring Uma Thurman and reality star turned Sia music video muse Maddie Ziegler, Pretty Lethal is one of those films where the central idea […]
Stars: Emma Reinagel, Aline O’Neill, Graham Weldin, Cameron Mabie, Jack Cathcart | Directed by Brittney Greer Make of this what you will: after watching Happy Halloween, I went to log the film on my Letterboxd account. As I did, I was dismayed to learn that I had already seen the thing – during its UK […]
Stars: Chad Michael Collins, Ryan Robbins, Tom Berenger, Nico Panagio, Josh Brener, Shane John Kruger, Dominique Maher, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz | Written by Michael Frost Beckner, Crash Leyland, Sean Wathen | Directed by Trevor Calverley After more than three decades and a dozen films deep, you’d think the Sniper franchise would be running on fumes by now. […]
Stars: Nicole Mattox, Dare Taylor, Katherine Gibson, Jim Palmer, Lauren Parkinson, Dwayne Hilton Jr., Chuck Cirino, Ian Hummel, Ryan Rathbun | Written by Steven Shaffer | Directed by Errol Sack There’s a certain kind of low-budget revenge flick that feels like it was discovered on a dusty VHS shelf rather than released in the streaming […]
Stars: Akari Takahashi, Masanori Mimoto, Mario Kuroba, Hidenobu Abera, Ayaka Higashino, Hiroto Honda, Ryu Ichinose, Sora Inoue | Written by Yugo Sakamoto | Directed by Kensuke Sonomura If there’s one thing Ghost Killer understands from the jump, it’s that subtlety is overrated when you’ve got a ghost hitman possessing a college girl and punching people […]
Stars: Sydney Mikayla, Erik King, Florencia Lozano, Kevin Breznahan, Michael Laurence, Clifton Dunn, Anna Palmieri | Written by Emily Fouraker, Sarah T Schwab | Directed by Sarah T. Schwab For the uninitiated, a ‘Crybaby Bridge’ is an American urban legend, referring to a haunted bridge inhabited by the restless spirit of a mother and her […]
Stars: Ali Chappell, Izzy Shiffman, Corteon Moore, Kate Vernon, Erika Prevost, Sean Sullivan, Lynne Griffin, Christian Lloyd, Fanar Zak | Written by Adrian Bobb, Matthew Campagna, Ali Chappell, Max Francis, Foad H.P., Ilana Haley | Directed by Ali Chappell, Adrian Bobb, Richard Lee, Natalie Metcalf Florida. 1969. In a Manson-esque hippy commune, a woman is […]
Stars: Charlotte Ritchie, Tanya Moodie, Nicholas Asbury, Raj Ghatak, Luke McQueen, Nick Helm | Written and Directed by Jim Owen For his feature debut, writer/director Jim Owen opens Hostages with a sight that will be familiar to viewers: people constantly on their phones. Included among them is Charlie (Charlotte Ritchie), an influencer whose content consists […]
Stars: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm, Jim Cummings | Written and Directed by Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus Written and directed by sibling team Kevin and Matthew McManus, Redux Redux is a terrific sci-fi revenge thriller that takes a fresh approach to the multiverse and gives the concept the shot in the arm it needed […]
Stars: Joe Begos, Matt Mercer, Riley Dandy, Jason Eisener, Josh Ethier, James Russo | Written and Directed by Joe Begos There’s a particular strain of indie genre cinema that feels like it was made by a couple of horror-obsessed mates who’ve mainlined VHS-era splatter and decided to just go for it. Jimmy and Stiggs sits […]
Stars: Alexander Arnold, Jussi Lampi, Liam James Collins, Arthur Sylense, Nadine Higgin, Jeremiah Crosby, Darren McStay, Celin El Azizi | Written by Joey Palmroos, Anders Holmes | Directed by Joey Palmroos “Going up the mountain, are we?” Alexander Arnold (no, not that one) delivers a performance that thrives as Delivery Run takes the highway to […]
Stars: Chance Johnson, Robin Covington, Ryan Teer, Joelle Arp-Dunham, Nullen Boyde, Sterling Muse, Tyler Woods | Written and Directed by Walter Wright There are microbudget movies… and then there’s Only Feet – a black-and-white, iPhone-shot erotic “thriller” that leans heavily into the word erotic while never quite earning the label. Written, produced and directed by […]
Stars: Alexander Arnold, Jussi Lampi, Liam James Collins, Arthur Sylense, Nadine Higgin, Jeremiah Crosby, Darren McStay, Celin El Azizi | Written by Joey Palmroos, Anders Holmes | Directed by Joey Palmroos A hard-up food delivery driver finds himself fighting for his life when he makes an enemy of a murderous snowplough driver in snowy Minnesota. […]
Stars: Laura Ellen Wilson, Bill Oberst Jr., Lynn Lowry, Shawn Michael Clankie | Written by József Gallai, Beáta Boldog | Directed by József Gallai In unsettling found footage film A Stranger in the Woods, by director József Gallai, filmmaker Edith (Laura Ellen Wilson) heads into remote woodland America to interview the reclusive old man said to […]
Stars: Silvia Presente, Kit Esuruoso, Joey Lockhart, Paul David-Gough, Gregory Fung, Samy Elkhatib, Reece Henderson, Tom Stocker, Pippa Winslow, Pat Garrett | Written and Directed by Oliver Cox Lure has a rather simple set-up, as six men are lured (the title was kept simple too) by a woman to a house party. Only when they […]
Stars: Jesse Kove, Gail O’Grady, Lorenzo Lamas, David Chokachi, Gina Vitori, Johnny Pacar, Paul Logan, G. Anthony Joseph, Chris Cleveland | Written by Geoff Meed, Kenny Zinn | Directed by Nick Lyon Sometimes, The Asylum really do shoot themselves in the foot — to butcher that particular phrase – by hiding genuinely solid B-movies behind […]
Stars: Martin Kemp, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, Peter Woodward, David Yip, Wendy Glenn, Daisy Beaumont, Gary Webster, Michael McKell | Written by Simon Cluett, Robert Dunn, Robert Geoffrey Hughes | Directed by Ben Fortune Doctor Plague is a low-budget British slasher directed by Ben Fortune, arriving from Shogun Film, the same company behind the recently released […]
Stars: Anna Jacoby, Josh Andres Rivera, Ana Auther, Todd Robert Anderson, Kevin Nealon | Written and Directed by Matt McClung Inhabitants, not to be confused with The Inhabitant, is the story of Olivia (Anna Jacoby; Finding Carter, Stranger Things) and her boyfriend Francis (Josh Andres Rivera; The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, […]
Stars: Samuel Dunning, Felicia Day, Keith David, Joel McHale, Danny Trejo, Alex Terzieff, Jhon Goodwin, J.D. McKee | Written and Directed by Stimson Snead One of my all-time favourite attempts at explaining time-travel on film has always been the low-budget Primer. Well… that was until this quirky new kid popped up in my inbox. Tim Travers […]
Stars: Samuel Dunning, Felicia Day, Keith David, Joel McHale, Danny Trejo, Alex Terzieff, Jhon Goodwin, J.D. McKee | Written and Directed by Stimson Snead The time-travelling story here is a bit different to the usual type for this genre. Inventor Tim Travers creates a time machine, travels back one minute and kills his younger self to […]
