by Joseph Perry | Oct 17, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Indie, Movies, Reviews
All You Need Is Death (Ireland, 2023) Writer/director Paul Duane’s Irish folk horror All You Need Is Death is a terrific slow burner that fairly drips with dread as it takes viewers on a ride to wholly unexpected places. Young couple Anna (Simone Collins) and...
by Joseph Perry | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
After receiving its world premiere at Portland’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival earlier this month, writer/director Cameron Beyl’s The Veil — which will also screen at the Austin Film Festival on October 27 and 30, and then again with H.P. Lovecraft Film...
by Joseph Perry | Oct 12, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Indie, Movies, Reviews
Gods of the Deep (U.K., 2023) Last year, prolific director Charlie Steeds’s Freeze played Portland’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, and this year his new film Gods of the Deep had its world premiere there. Steeds makes practically all manner of horror films, and...
by Joseph Perry | Oct 10, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
Mother Tongue (Australia, 2023) Jade (Amelia Foxton, who wrote the screenplay) and Alex (Chiara Gizzi) want to have a baby together, and Alex desperately wants to have it herself rather than adopting, but the couple has run out of almost all options. Almost...
by Joseph Perry | Oct 7, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Uncategorized
Alan Scott Neal delivers an outstanding slice of genre cinema with his feature-length directorial debut Last Straw. Combining home invasion horror with siege thriller elements, the film takes viewers on a wild, blood-soaked ride reminiscent of now-classic 1970s and...
