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Still Ohio Official synopsis In a misguided attempt to save her relationship, Ana (Fernanda Lopez) transfers from Boston College to Tulane to be with her boyfriend, Doug. Doug arranges for Ana to carpool with three of his rambunctious friends, Henry (Michael Zapesotsky), Julia (Sofia Angelopoulos), and Johnny (Jake Melamed). However, along the way, Ana discovers Doug does not know these strangers nearly as well as she was led to believe. Review I’m rather a hard sell on genre films involving time loops, but writer/director Kaylin Allshouse’s Still Ohio is a well crafted exception to my usual stance. The characters and circumstances are nicely fleshed out, the direction is strong, and the performances from the four leads are all impressive. Without giving too much away, the road trip that the four protagonists find themselves on involves a gas station that at first seems eerily similar to the first one where they stopped. As incidents proceed, that location and the other people
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GamingParanormalProductReviews
For a while, I’ve been hyping up Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco’s Vampire RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker. It also seemed that a lot of people were looking forward to the game’s release, as the devs kept teasing what was awaiting players. Was the hype worth it? The Blood of Dawnwalker takes place in a fictional […]
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GamingNewsParanormalProductReviews
I’ll admit, when I first saw the trailer for Hitori De Productions’ Dream Cage, I thought it was going to be an interesting concept of mixing sleep paralysis terror with spooky anomaly hunting. Sadly, this is another one of those “fooled by the trailer” horror games. From the official write-up for the game, it’s about a […]
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ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
Buenos Aries is absolutely up to it’s ass in flesh-eating ghouls. Such is the premise of 2024’s Portraits of the Apocalypse, a multi-tale fright flick that examines the apocalyptic event from a multitude of perspectives. Directors Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello each take turns telling stories of a world gone mad, and things […]
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DocumentariesIndieMoviesReviews
Back ‘round 1973, filmmaker Robin Hardy unleashed the ultimate folk horror banger, The Wicker Man. If you’re not familiar (and you absolutely should be), The Wicker Man concerns a police Sergeant who travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate the case of a missing child. Once there he discovers the strange pagan rituals of […]
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MoviesReviewsThriller
A figure in black chases a terrified man to a rooftop where he fires a gun at him point blank… resulting in a rubber tipped dart sticking to the victims forehead accompanied by cartoon sound effects… Hard cut to a fantastic opening credits sequence equal parts James Bond title sequence and an ’80s TV cop […]
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Official synopsis A lost girl unexpectedly takes part in a midnight hike to explore local urban legends and monsters, only to find herself among the mysteries of the dark trail. Review As an aficionado of high strangeness since at least first grade of elementary school — Bigfoot and Nessie were my gateway cryptids at that […]
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MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
Adam Scott recently delivered a knockout performance in Hokum. Pairing him with screen icon Robert De Niro in Netflix’s serial killer thriller The Whisper Man made the film an immediate top-tier priority for me. Having finally experienced the chilling adaptation of Alex North’s 2019 bestseller, this slow-burn nightmare delivers on every inch of its high-caliber […]
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MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
If you have ever looked at a peaceful suburban block party and thought it desperately needed ten-ton apex predators, director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and producer J.J. Abrams are about to give you exactly what you asked for. The End of Oak Street drops a glorious, mystery-box collision of early-1980s nostalgia and creature-feature terror […]
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GamingProductReviews
Our friends at GUNNAR have shown their love for summer, but now, for those who love the best season of all, we have frames for Fall! For those not familiar with our friends at Gunnar, they specialize in making glasses that have anti-blue light tech. Screens give off blue light that’s invisible to the eyes […]
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Film FestivalsIndieMoviesReviews
Still Ohio Official synopsis In a misguided attempt to save her relationship, Ana (Fernanda Lopez) transfers from Boston College to Tulane to be with her boyfriend, Doug. Doug arranges for Ana to carpool with three of his rambunctious friends, Henry (Michael Zapesotsky), Julia (Sofia Angelopoulos), and Johnny (Jake Melamed). However, along the way, Ana discovers Doug does not know these strangers nearly as well as she was led to believe. Review I’m rather a hard sell on genre films involving time loops, but writer/director Kaylin Allshouse’s Still Ohio is a well crafted exception to my usual stance. The characters and circumstances are nicely fleshed out, the direction is strong, and the performances from the four leads are all impressive. Without giving too much away, the road trip that the four protagonists find themselves on involves a gas station that at first seems eerily similar to the first one where they stopped. As incidents proceed, that location and the other people
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
For a while, I’ve been hyping up Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco’s Vampire RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker. It also seemed that a lot of people were looking forward to the game’s release, as the devs kept teasing what was awaiting players. Was the hype worth it? The Blood of Dawnwalker takes place in a fictional […]
Continue reading →
GamingNewsParanormalProductReviews
I’ll admit, when I first saw the trailer for Hitori De Productions’ Dream Cage, I thought it was going to be an interesting concept of mixing sleep paralysis terror with spooky anomaly hunting. Sadly, this is another one of those “fooled by the trailer” horror games. From the official write-up for the game, it’s about a […]
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
Buenos Aries is absolutely up to it’s ass in flesh-eating ghouls. Such is the premise of 2024’s Portraits of the Apocalypse, a multi-tale fright flick that examines the apocalyptic event from a multitude of perspectives. Directors Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello each take turns telling stories of a world gone mad, and things […]
Continue reading →
DocumentariesIndieMoviesReviews
Back ‘round 1973, filmmaker Robin Hardy unleashed the ultimate folk horror banger, The Wicker Man. If you’re not familiar (and you absolutely should be), The Wicker Man concerns a police Sergeant who travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate the case of a missing child. Once there he discovers the strange pagan rituals of […]
Continue reading →
MoviesReviewsThriller
A figure in black chases a terrified man to a rooftop where he fires a gun at him point blank… resulting in a rubber tipped dart sticking to the victims forehead accompanied by cartoon sound effects… Hard cut to a fantastic opening credits sequence equal parts James Bond title sequence and an ’80s TV cop […]
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsIndieMoviesReviews
Official synopsis A lost girl unexpectedly takes part in a midnight hike to explore local urban legends and monsters, only to find herself among the mysteries of the dark trail. Review As an aficionado of high strangeness since at least first grade of elementary school — Bigfoot and Nessie were my gateway cryptids at that […]
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
Adam Scott recently delivered a knockout performance in Hokum. Pairing him with screen icon Robert De Niro in Netflix’s serial killer thriller The Whisper Man made the film an immediate top-tier priority for me. Having finally experienced the chilling adaptation of Alex North’s 2019 bestseller, this slow-burn nightmare delivers on every inch of its high-caliber […]
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
If you have ever looked at a peaceful suburban block party and thought it desperately needed ten-ton apex predators, director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and producer J.J. Abrams are about to give you exactly what you asked for. The End of Oak Street drops a glorious, mystery-box collision of early-1980s nostalgia and creature-feature terror […]
Continue reading →
GamingProductReviews
Our friends at GUNNAR have shown their love for summer, but now, for those who love the best season of all, we have frames for Fall! For those not familiar with our friends at Gunnar, they specialize in making glasses that have anti-blue light tech. Screens give off blue light that’s invisible to the eyes […]
Continue reading →
