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Movie Review – Midday Demons (2019)

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Midday Demons. 2019. Directed by Rossella De Venuto. Starring Fiona Glascott, Pietro Ragusa, Federico Castelluccio, Bianca Nappi, and Ray Lovelock. SYNOPSIS: Megan, a successful Irish artist, lives in Dublin with her husband Leo, an Italian who emigrated there several years ago. After receiving the news of the death of Leo’s uncle, a powerful catholic priest […]

Movie Review – The Shed (2019)

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The Shed. 2019. Directed by Frank Sabatella. Starring Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Frank Whaley, Timothy Bottoms, Chris Petrovski, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan. SYNOPSIS: Stan lives with his abusive grandfather and tries to protect his best friend from high school bullies. When he discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside his tool […]

Movie Review – Primal (2019)

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Primal, 2019. Directed by Nick Powell. Starring Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, LaMonica Garrett, and Michael Imperioli. SYNOPSIS: A big-game hunter for zoos has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar – along with a political assassin […]

Movie Review – Red Letter Day (2019)

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Red Letter Day. 2019. Directed by Cameron Macgowan. Starring Dawn Van de Schoot, Hailey Foss, Kaeleb Zain Gartner, Roger LeBlanc, Arielle Rombough, Michael Tan, and Peter Strand Rumpel. SYNOPSIS: While adjusting to a new life in a quiet suburban community, a recently divorced mother and her two teens receive mysterious red letters instructing them each […]

Movie Review – The Gallows Act II (2019)

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The Gallows Act II, 2019. Directed by Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing. Starring Ema Horvath, Chris Milligan, Brittany Falardeau, Pfeifer Brown, Erika Miranda, and Deandre Pierre. SYNOPSIS: When Auna Rue transfers to a prestigious new acting school, she encounters a malevolent spirit after participating in a viral challenge. As “Horror Twitter’s” proudest advocate of 2015’s […]

Movie Review – Countdown (2019)

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Countdown. 2019. Directed by Justin Dec. Starring Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Peter Facinelli, Dillon Lane, Tichina Arnold, Tom Segura, and P.J. Byrne. SYNOPSIS: When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock […]

Movie Review – Eli (2019)

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Eli. 2019. Directed by Ciarán Foy. Starring Charlie Shotwell, Kelly Reilly, Max Martini, Lili Taylor, and Sadie Sink. SYNOPSIS: A boy receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder discovers that the house he’s living in isn’t as safe as he thought. Generic repetition can at times plague Netflix’s catalog of interchangeable horror offerings, but then a […]

Movie Review – Trick (2019)

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Trick. 2019. Directed by Patrick Lussier. Starring Omar Epps, Jamie Kennedy, Tom Atkins, Ellen Adair, Vanessa Aspillaga, Alex Breaux, Kristina Reyes, Todd Farmer, Gary J. Tunnicliffe, and Aaron Dalla Villa. SYNOPSIS: A no-nonsense detective tries to track down a serial killer named Trick, who is terrorizing a small town. Patrick Lussier’s Trick lives Halloween, breathes […]

Movie Review – Holiday Hell (2019)

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Holiday Hell. 2019. Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis, Amber Stonebraker, Lisa Coronado, and Ailsa Marshall. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious shopkeeper narrates four horror tales, each set during a different holiday. I’ve (somehow) watched enough “Christmas Horror” anthologies over my career to confirm, […]

Movie Review – Killer Sofa (2019)

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Killer Sofa. 2019. Directed by Bernie Rao. Starring Piimio Mei, Nathalie Morris, Harley Neville, Stacey King, Jed Brophy, Jim Baltaxe, and Grant Kereama. SYNOPSIS: A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion. Bernie Rao’s Killer Sofa is the “Zombeavers of inanimate object horror” in that title and concept […]