What would you do with $1,000? Take a trip somewhere? Go on a spree? Well, writer/director Chris Moore decided to take a thousand bucks and make a horror movie about dead babies, or something like that. A strange tale called Blessed Are the Children shows us the deadly toll that one bad decision can take. […]
Teenage alienation is terrifying and trying to fit in often carries more risks than rewards. So it is for Mia, just 15 and on the verge of menstruation but whose angst is fueled primarily by a new school and a new social setting. In the Swiss film Blue My Mind, she’s upset with her father […]
Nature. It’s beautiful and fascinating, but it’s also scary shit. I just watched writer/director Jim Ojala’s first feature Strange Nature, an eco-horror film based on real-life events. Strange Nature starts out with the discovery of a bunch of deformed frogs in and around lakes in a small town, but it turns into a lot more. […]
Greetings, Fiends. Fall is finally here, and pumpkin-everything is everywhere. Halloween in near, and one of the most anticipated film events of this time of the year is now here. Yep, I’m speaking of the return of infamous babysitter killer, Michael Myers. Even more exciting than Michael’s return is the return of favorite final girl, […]
As a long-time fan of producer Bryan Enk’s work, pretty much anything he is attached to jumps to the head of my Must-See list and while The Horror at Gallery Kay slid under my radar a bit, it definitely is a film deserving of a watching. “An estranged couple’s therapy appointment reveals the existence of […]
Imagine the best elements of a haunted house inhabiting a recreational vehicle. In theory, it’s like shoving spooks and kooks into quarters so cramped the claustrophobia alone will scare the bejesus out of you. That’s exactly what the makers of The Toybox intended. New from Steel House Productions and available Sept. 18 on DVD, this […]
Coming to us from writer/director José Pedro Lopes is his dark and daunting The Forest of Lost Souls—a beautifully disturbing, stunningly crafted black and white tale of deceit and depression. I went into this without any expectations, not knowing what the story was to be about. Boy, was I given a treat! If you’re looking […]
Made in 13 days and for $8000, writer/director/producer Joe Badon’s The God Inside My Ear is a darkly funny, highly trippy and just flat out weird tale. About what, you ask? Well, THAT is the million-dollar question. It might be about a breakup between an oddball guy and his oddball girlfriend, and all of the […]
Alcohol, revelry, countdowns and kissing. That right there, folks, is your annual recipe for New Year’s Eve. Usually, as goes the oldest cliché in Journalism 101, a good time is had by all. But not in Minutes to Midnight, the new indie horror flick from Christopher Ray that adds a splash of slash to the […]
“Specialists gather in a top-secret facility to investigate a series of strange deaths on beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. One of the team’s scientists (Nana Gouvea) examines video evidence to uncover a possible parasitic explanation for the fatalities. But when a determined detective (Tom Sizemore) sends her the crazed writings of a mysterious homeless man […]
