Av: The Hunt, 2020. Directed by Emre Akay. Starring Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Baki Kaymaz, Yagizcan Konyah, and Billur Melis Koç. SYNOPSIS: After being caught with her lover, a woman becomes hunted by her own relatives who want to kill her for their family’s honour. As modern Hollywood seems insistent on shoving Hallmark truisms about the […]
Host filmmakers set new horror project at StudioCanal
Following on from their hit lockdown horror Host, director Rob Savage and producer Jed Shepherd have set up a new project – described as “The Conjuring behind bars” – at StudioCanal. “[It’s a ] melding of the prison escape movie and the haunted house movie, in which a group of women who stage an unsuccessful […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Blinders
Blinders, 2020. Directed by Tyler Savage. Starring Christine Ko, Vincent Van Horn, Michael Lee Joplin, and Dusty Sorg. SYNOPSIS: A young man’s budding romance is threatened when he befriends an unstable ride-share driver. The Cable Guy gets a grisly millennial update in Tyler Savage’s (Inheritance) sophomore feature Blinders, fleshing out a potentially over-familiar stalker thriller with […]
Movie Review – Measure for Measure (2019)
Measure for Measure, 2019. Directed by Paul Ireland. Starring Hugo Weaving, Harrison Gilbertson, Megan Smart, Mark Leonard Winter, Daniel Henshall, Fayssal Bazzi, Doris Younane, Josh McConville, Christine Whelan Browne, Malcolm Kennard, Luke Lennox, John Brumpton, and Finn Ireland. SYNOPSIS: The lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event […]
Ruby Rose and Jean Reno featured on poster for The Doorman
Following on from yesterday’s trailer, a poster has arrived online for the new action thriller The Doorman featuring stars Ruby Rose (Batwoman) and Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional); check it out here… A former Marine (Ruby Rose, John Wick: Chapter 2) turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a […]
Psycho thriller Killer Therapy gets a poster and trailer
A poster, trailer and images have been released for director Barry Jay’s (Ashes) upcoming horror-thriller Killer Therapy which stars Thom Mathews (Return of the Living Dead), PJ Soles (Halloween), Adrienne King (Friday the 13th), Daeg Faerch (Halloween), Ivy George (Big Little Lies), Elizabeth Keener (Ashes) and Michael Qeliqi; check them out here… Brian is a […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Enhanced
Enhanced, 2020. Co-written and directed by James Mark. Starring George Tchortov, Alanna Bale, Adrian Holmes, and Chris Mark. SYNOPSIS: A young woman with enhanced abilities finds herself hunted down by a sinister government organisation. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances. […]
Movie Review – The Owners (2020)
The Owners, 2020. Directed by Julius Berg. Starring Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Ian Kenny, Stacha Hicks, Jake Curran, and Andrew Ellis. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends think they find an easy score at an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the owners, an elderly couple, come home early, the […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Hail to the Deadites
Hail to the Deadites, 2020. Directed by Steve Villeneuve. Starring Patricia Tallman, Ellen Sandweiss, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, and John Fallon. SYNOPSIS: A documentary about the fans of the Evil Dead films, exploring the classic franchise’s undying and ever-growing popularity. “Everything you see in the next 80 minutes was created by Evil Dead fans,” promises the opening […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Skull: The Mask
Skull: The Mask, 2020. Directed by Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman. Starring Natallia Rodrigues, Tristan Aronovich, Guta Ruiz, and Eduardo Semerjian. SYNOPSIS: In the year 1944, an artefact is used in a military experiment. The artefact is the Mask of Anhangá, the executioner of Tahawantinsupay, a pre-Columbian god. Today, the mask arrives in São Paulo, […]