Aquaslash, 2019. Co-written and directed by Renaud Gauthier. Starring Nicolas Fontaine, Brittany Drisdelle, Madelline Harvey, Paul Zinno, Nick Walker, and Chip Chuipka. SYNOPSIS: Terror awaits a group of high school graduates when a psychopath uses the unstoppable speed and turns of a water slide to his murderous advantage. A movie called Aquaslash invites certain expectations, primarily […]
Movie Review – Critical Thinking (2020)
Critical Thinking, 2020. Directed by John Leguizamo. Starring John Leguizamo, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams, Corwin C. Tuggles, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Angel Bismark Curiel, Will Hochman, Jeffry Batista, Zora Casebere, Ramses Jimenez, Sydney Arroyo, Brandon Somers, and Isaac Beverly. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2020 Review – Two Heads Creek
Two Heads Creek, 2019. Directed by Jesse O’Brien. Starring Kerry Armstrong, Kathryn Wilder, Gary Sweet, and Stephen Hunter. SYNOPSIS: A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty […]
Movie Review – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020. Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Ashlyn Alessi, Abby Quinn, Hadley Robinson, Dj Nino Carta, Teddy Coluca, Jason Ralph, and Guy Boyd. SYNOPSIS: A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is thinking of ending things on the way to meet her boyfriend’s […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – The Honeymoon Phase
The Honeymoon Phase, 2019. Directed by Phillip G. Carroll Jr. Starring François Chau, Tara Westwood, Ione Butler, and Mike Sutton. SYNOPSIS: Struggling young lovers, Tom and Eve, must endure a 30-day scientific experiment. Room, board, $50,000, and a month alone together in research facility housing. What could possibly go wrong? Relationship satire can be ripe […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Playhouse
Playhouse, 2020. Written and directed by Toby Watts and Fionn Watts. Starring Julie Higginson, James Rottger, Helen Mackay, and William Holstead. SYNOPSIS: In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls. Ghosts of the past are thoroughly exorcised in this […]
Amy Adams joins Dear Evan Hansen
Amy Adams has become the latest addition to the cast of Dear Evan Hansen, the upcoming feature film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Ben Platt (The Politician), who performed the title role on stage, is expected to star in the film as Evan Hansen, a sociacially-awkward teenager who unintentionally gets caught up in a […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Don’t Click
Don’t Click, 2020. Directed by G-Hey Kim. Starring Valter Skarsgård, Mark Koufos, Catherine Howard, and Ry Barrett. SYNOPSIS: After accessing a pornographic website, two men wake up to find themselves trapped in a dungeon with a supernatural entity. Filmmaker G-Hey Kim adapts her hit festival short Don’t Click into a full feature, proving the difficulty inherent […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, 2020. Directed by Justin McConnell. Featuring George A. Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Richard Stanley, Barbara Crampton, Paul Schrader, and Michael Biehn. SYNOPSIS: Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Dark Place
Dark Place, 2019. Written and directed by Kodie Bedford, Liam Phillips, Robert Braslin, Perun Bonser, and Bjorn Stewart. Starring Patricia Tallman, Ellen Sandweiss, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, and John Fallon. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of horror tales filtered through the post-colonial experience of the Aboriginal Australians. As popular as horror anthologies might be, it’s also fair to […]
