Parts Unknown, 2018. Directed by Richard Chandler. Starring William DeCoff, Lizzie Havoc, Sarah Michelle, Alexandra Cipolla, Alexander Hauck, Ralph Regine and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. SYNOPSIS: A troubled family of wrestlers find themselves driven to murder when their careers fall by the wayside. The world of horror and the world of wrestling go hand in […]
Movie Review – WrestleMassacre (2018)
WrestleMassacre, 2018. Directed by Brad Twigg. Starring Richie Acevedo, Julio Bana Fernandez, Rosanna Nelson, Jimmy Flame, Rene Dupree, Nicholas Yoder II, James L. Edwards, Nikolai Volkoff, Tony Atlas and Jim Fullington. SYNOPSIS: A disgruntled gardener with a love for professional wrestling becomes a serial killer. The audience for WrestleMassacre is pretty clearly and concisely defined […]
Movie Review – The Dinner Party (2020)
The Dinner Party, 2020. Directed by Miles Doleac. Starring Alli Hart, Mike Mayhall, Sawandi Wilson, Bill Sage, Lindsay Anne Williams, Kamille McCuin and Miles Doleac. SYNOPSIS: A couple invited to dinner by a group of wealthy investors find themselves getting far more than they bargained for as the gathering becomes something else entirely. The rich […]
Movie Review – Reborn (2018)
Reborn, 2018. Directed by Julian Richards. Starring Kayleigh Gilbert, Barbara Crampton, Michael Paré, Rae Dawn Chong, Chaz Bono, Alexa Maris, Monte Markham and Peter Bogdanovich. SYNOPSIS: A fading actress meets a teenager with strange, supernatural powers who claims to be her daughter – the daughter who was stillborn 16 years earlier. Reborn starts with Sonny […]
Movie Review – The Wretched (2020)
The Wretched, 2020. Directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce. Starring John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Jamison Jones, Azie Tesfai, Zarah Mahler and Kevin Bigley. SYNOPSIS: A teenager becomes suspicious that his next door neighbour is a witch with the power to make people forget their own children. The opening title sequence of The Wretched […]
Psycho with critic Amy Smith | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #76
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Amy Smith delves into Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic slasher Psycho… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Amy Smith discusses Alfred Hitchcock’s exceptional proto-slasher Psycho. We […]
TV Review – Shudder’s Cursed Films Season 1
Tom Beasley takes a look at the new documentary from horror streaming service Shudder, examining the true stories behind some of Hollywood’s most notorious movie sets… Everyone who loves horror in any way will at some point have become fascinated by stories of cursed movie sets. Particularly nowadays, dozens of scandalous yarns of demonic possession […]
Movie Review – Color Out of Space (2019)
Color Out of Space, 2019. Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hillard and Q’orianka Kilcher. SYNOPSIS: When a meteorite lands in their farm, a family descends into anarchy as a strange contagion spreads across their land. Richard Stanley is an interesting name in cinema. For […]
Movie Review – Ready or Not (2019)
Ready or Not, 2019. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Starring Samara Weaving, Andie MacDowell, Mark O’Brien, Adam Brody, Nicky Guadagni, Henry Czerny, Melanie Scrofano and Kristian Bruun. SYNOPSIS: A bride has the wedding night from hell when she is thrust into a deadly game of hide and seek. Families, right? One minute you’re […]
Movie Review – Hi-Death (2018)
Hi-Death, 2018. Directed by Brad Sykes, Anthony Catanese, Tim Ritter, Amanda Payton and Todd Sheets. Starring Kristen Adams, Kate Durocher, Jensen Jacobs, Craig Kelly, Todd Martin, Thomas Kindler, Christopher Preyer, Fabiana Formica, Julia Vally, Jay Sosnicki, Nick Randol and Eve Smith. SYNOPSIS: A collection of five low-budget horror shorts, linked by a pair of young […]