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Psychological thrillers, dark crime and slow-burn suspense — films and series that get under your skin without a single monster.
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A woman is convinced her baby was ripped from her womb and taken away by a sinister cult – but no one believes her bizarre story – in the gripping paranoid thriller The Dark Red, the latest film from the creator of the James Franco-starring horror mystery The Vault. A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital after claiming that her newborn has been abducted by a secret society called the Dark Red – an ancient, underground cult that harvests and controls an incredibly rare blood type that gives one the power to hear and guide another person’s thoughts. The woman, Sybil, claims she is special, that she carries a pure and powerful strain of the blood like nothing seen before, and that the society sees her and her child as central to its next evolution – or perhaps its greatest threat, should she turn against them. Is the Dark Red entirely a figment of Sybil’s imagination – a
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Markus (Daniel Leclerc), a recent transplant to a new country, spends a shit-ton of time playing video games… which is a whole hell of a lot safer than what he gets into when he pays a hacker to give him access to the dark web where he observes some strait up real-life horror biz on a freaky forum. Of course the powers that be don’t cotton to Mark throwin’ his putrid peepers on their ghoulish goings-on and so begins a tense game of cat and mouse our hero might not survive! Let’s start with some of the positives ol’ Deep Web has to offer. Writer/director Jessy Dupont presents his terror tale with a lot of panache thanks to some slick cinematography and editing (both courtesy of Dupont himself), and this helps create a stylish world that is perfect for a techno-thriller such as this, and the story is on point as well with some solid twists and turns, and some
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Maria (The Last Exorcism‘s Ashley Bell) and Jules (Noureen DeWulf) are a couple checking in to a swanky vacation rental, so ol’ J-dawg can get her rest on. It doesn’t take but a fraction of a millipube (it’s a real measurement of time, but only us cool ass movie critics know about it… wait, now I’ve told you about it… ) for things to go from sedate to escape room style fight for survival, as AirBnB type sitches oft do, eh me boils n’ ghouls? Let me tell you cats n’ creeps; Dear Guest is one hell of a sinister short! Writer/director Megan Freels Johnston delivers a fantastic mystery; replete with cryptic clues delivered on lil’ white cards, a house that is impossible to escape, and a fine sense of escalating tension… all delivered as we scratch our horrible heads trying to figure out who is behind it all. Adding to the top tier acting (the cast is comprised entirely
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There’s no escape from suburbia in writer-director Lorcan Finnegan‘s Vivarium, coming to Blu-ray and DVD. Starring Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) and Imogen Poots (Black Christmas) the film follows a young couple “who are looking for the perfect home. When a strange real-estate agent takes them to Yonder, a mysterious suburban neighborhood of identical houses, Tom and Gemma can’t wait to leave. But when they try to exit the labyrinth-like housing development, each road takes them back to where they started. Soon, they realize their search for a dream home has plunged them into a terrifying nightmare, in this taut thriller filled with white-knuckle suspense.” Vivarium arrives on Digital March 27th and on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital) and DVD on May 12th from Lionsgate. BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Audio Commentary with Director Lorcan Finnegan and Executive Producer Brunella Cocchiglia “Creating the Suburban Nightmare of Vivarium” Featurette
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Rachel (Crisann Smith) is lookin’ forward to a lil’ girl time with her gal pal Tammy (Arlette Yousif), but R-dawgs other pal, Sandy (Tommie Vegas), has some other plans… Arriving on Rachel’s doorstep, bloodied and decidedly a bit “off”, Sandy spins a wild yarn about her eerie evening spent up to her armpits in the murder biz… biz that she willfully committed, and now she wants to turn her ghoulish gaze upon Rachel for further mayhem! Comprised of an all female cast, muted (almost ’70s style) color palette, and some great twists; Can I Kill You is a testament to what you can do in a single location, with limited budget and effects, as long as you are locked and loaded with a strong cast and script. Writer/director Nicholas Grant is not one to shy away from slasher flick tropes, or standing said tropes on their head, and this sinister short is all the better for it. Just when you
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The last three Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those devious n’ delightful devils over at Scream Factory have been a creepy cornucopia of fright flick fun (Don’t believe me? Head here and here and here to read my thoughts for your own sinister self!)! Let’s see if Volume 4 lives up to it’s predecessors! Starting things off we have 1937’s Night Key: David Mallory (Boris Karloff) is the old-as-balls inventor of a real peach of a new burglar alarm… in fact it’s so great that a real asshole of a businessman ends up taking our nearly blind hero for a ride and steals the profits from the device. Well Dave isn’t going to sit still for that prime cut of being poor bullshit, and before long and he falls in with some gangsters who want to utilize our protagonist’s smarts to help them come into some easy (read: fuckin’ stolen) money! A rather lightweight caper with a
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From writer-director Tommy Faircloth (Family Possessions), and starring scream queen Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp & Silent Night, Zombie Night), comes A Nun’s Curse. Discover the horrifying truth about Sister Monday this May! “On a weekend trip, a group of friends are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned prison where a nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned. During her time at the prison, Sister Monday was suspected of killing prisoners who were serving out their sentences but before she could be questioned, she disappeared. Once inside the prison, they will learn the terrifying truth.” A Nun’s Curse premieres on DVD and Digital May 12th from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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This April, an obsessed wrestling fan goes too far in the new trailer for Powerbomb. Directed by B.J. Colangelo (Deathcember) and R. Zachary Shildwachter, the indie film centers on a wrestler on the verge of breaking into the big time, but after years of struggling, he’s contemplating leaving it all behind to spend more time with his family. When our wrestler’s biggest fan hears the news, he decides to take matters into his own hands to ensure that his champion gets to the top by any means necessary including extortion, kidnapping, and even murder… Powerbomb, a pivotal move in wrestling, features a renowned cast. Action actor Cash Allen stars along with pro-wrestler Matt Cappicioni and backyard wrestler Greg Iron. Even Ohio Valley Wrestler Roni Jonah gets in on the action as Amy Cross. Indican Pictures will release Powerbomb on both DVD and Digital platforms on April 14th. Check out the trailer.
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Guess whose back with more B-movies you can watch as Social Distancing continues! These are some good campy ones that you can MST3K with friends over facetime or with family! I hope you enjoy them and I look forward to sharing even more with you soon! Fiend Without a Face (1958) Based on Amelia Reynolds Long’s short story The Thought-Monster, this film takes place in a small town in Manitoba where strange deaths are accruing and the American airbase nearby is being blamed by the locals. Cosmic Monsters (The Strange World Planet X) (1958) In England, an experiment involving electromagnetic fields is having a negative effect on local insects in the nearby forest. As two of the scientists working on the project (Forrest Tucker, and Gaby André) work on trying to figure out why their experiments are failing while a visitor from another planet (Martin Benson) tries to help. Killers from Space (1954) A nuclear scientist (Peter Graves) survives a
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Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg is nearly unrecognizable in the trailer for Inheritance, from Terminal director Vaughn Stein. Pegg stars alongside Lily Collins (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) in the thriller about the patriarch of a rich and powerful family who dies and leaves his family to cope with a shocking inheritance the threatens to destroy their lives. Connie Nielsen, Michael Beach, Chace Crawford, and Marque Richardson round out the cast. Inheritance will arrive on DirecTV on April 23rd, followed by its release in theaters, on Digital, and On Demand by Vertical Entertainment on May 22nd.
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A woman is convinced her baby was ripped from her womb and taken away by a sinister cult – but no one believes her bizarre story – in the gripping paranoid thriller The Dark Red, the latest film from the creator of the James Franco-starring horror mystery The Vault. A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital after claiming that her newborn has been abducted by a secret society called the Dark Red – an ancient, underground cult that harvests and controls an incredibly rare blood type that gives one the power to hear and guide another person’s thoughts. The woman, Sybil, claims she is special, that she carries a pure and powerful strain of the blood like nothing seen before, and that the society sees her and her child as central to its next evolution – or perhaps its greatest threat, should she turn against them. Is the Dark Red entirely a figment of Sybil’s imagination – a
Continue reading →
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Markus (Daniel Leclerc), a recent transplant to a new country, spends a shit-ton of time playing video games… which is a whole hell of a lot safer than what he gets into when he pays a hacker to give him access to the dark web where he observes some strait up real-life horror biz on a freaky forum. Of course the powers that be don’t cotton to Mark throwin’ his putrid peepers on their ghoulish goings-on and so begins a tense game of cat and mouse our hero might not survive! Let’s start with some of the positives ol’ Deep Web has to offer. Writer/director Jessy Dupont presents his terror tale with a lot of panache thanks to some slick cinematography and editing (both courtesy of Dupont himself), and this helps create a stylish world that is perfect for a techno-thriller such as this, and the story is on point as well with some solid twists and turns, and some
Continue reading →
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Maria (The Last Exorcism‘s Ashley Bell) and Jules (Noureen DeWulf) are a couple checking in to a swanky vacation rental, so ol’ J-dawg can get her rest on. It doesn’t take but a fraction of a millipube (it’s a real measurement of time, but only us cool ass movie critics know about it… wait, now I’ve told you about it… ) for things to go from sedate to escape room style fight for survival, as AirBnB type sitches oft do, eh me boils n’ ghouls? Let me tell you cats n’ creeps; Dear Guest is one hell of a sinister short! Writer/director Megan Freels Johnston delivers a fantastic mystery; replete with cryptic clues delivered on lil’ white cards, a house that is impossible to escape, and a fine sense of escalating tension… all delivered as we scratch our horrible heads trying to figure out who is behind it all. Adding to the top tier acting (the cast is comprised entirely
Continue reading →
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There’s no escape from suburbia in writer-director Lorcan Finnegan‘s Vivarium, coming to Blu-ray and DVD. Starring Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) and Imogen Poots (Black Christmas) the film follows a young couple “who are looking for the perfect home. When a strange real-estate agent takes them to Yonder, a mysterious suburban neighborhood of identical houses, Tom and Gemma can’t wait to leave. But when they try to exit the labyrinth-like housing development, each road takes them back to where they started. Soon, they realize their search for a dream home has plunged them into a terrifying nightmare, in this taut thriller filled with white-knuckle suspense.” Vivarium arrives on Digital March 27th and on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital) and DVD on May 12th from Lionsgate. BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Audio Commentary with Director Lorcan Finnegan and Executive Producer Brunella Cocchiglia “Creating the Suburban Nightmare of Vivarium” Featurette
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Rachel (Crisann Smith) is lookin’ forward to a lil’ girl time with her gal pal Tammy (Arlette Yousif), but R-dawgs other pal, Sandy (Tommie Vegas), has some other plans… Arriving on Rachel’s doorstep, bloodied and decidedly a bit “off”, Sandy spins a wild yarn about her eerie evening spent up to her armpits in the murder biz… biz that she willfully committed, and now she wants to turn her ghoulish gaze upon Rachel for further mayhem! Comprised of an all female cast, muted (almost ’70s style) color palette, and some great twists; Can I Kill You is a testament to what you can do in a single location, with limited budget and effects, as long as you are locked and loaded with a strong cast and script. Writer/director Nicholas Grant is not one to shy away from slasher flick tropes, or standing said tropes on their head, and this sinister short is all the better for it. Just when you
Continue reading →
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The last three Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those devious n’ delightful devils over at Scream Factory have been a creepy cornucopia of fright flick fun (Don’t believe me? Head here and here and here to read my thoughts for your own sinister self!)! Let’s see if Volume 4 lives up to it’s predecessors! Starting things off we have 1937’s Night Key: David Mallory (Boris Karloff) is the old-as-balls inventor of a real peach of a new burglar alarm… in fact it’s so great that a real asshole of a businessman ends up taking our nearly blind hero for a ride and steals the profits from the device. Well Dave isn’t going to sit still for that prime cut of being poor bullshit, and before long and he falls in with some gangsters who want to utilize our protagonist’s smarts to help them come into some easy (read: fuckin’ stolen) money! A rather lightweight caper with a
Continue reading →
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From writer-director Tommy Faircloth (Family Possessions), and starring scream queen Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp & Silent Night, Zombie Night), comes A Nun’s Curse. Discover the horrifying truth about Sister Monday this May! “On a weekend trip, a group of friends are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned prison where a nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned. During her time at the prison, Sister Monday was suspected of killing prisoners who were serving out their sentences but before she could be questioned, she disappeared. Once inside the prison, they will learn the terrifying truth.” A Nun’s Curse premieres on DVD and Digital May 12th from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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This April, an obsessed wrestling fan goes too far in the new trailer for Powerbomb. Directed by B.J. Colangelo (Deathcember) and R. Zachary Shildwachter, the indie film centers on a wrestler on the verge of breaking into the big time, but after years of struggling, he’s contemplating leaving it all behind to spend more time with his family. When our wrestler’s biggest fan hears the news, he decides to take matters into his own hands to ensure that his champion gets to the top by any means necessary including extortion, kidnapping, and even murder… Powerbomb, a pivotal move in wrestling, features a renowned cast. Action actor Cash Allen stars along with pro-wrestler Matt Cappicioni and backyard wrestler Greg Iron. Even Ohio Valley Wrestler Roni Jonah gets in on the action as Amy Cross. Indican Pictures will release Powerbomb on both DVD and Digital platforms on April 14th. Check out the trailer.
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Guess whose back with more B-movies you can watch as Social Distancing continues! These are some good campy ones that you can MST3K with friends over facetime or with family! I hope you enjoy them and I look forward to sharing even more with you soon! Fiend Without a Face (1958) Based on Amelia Reynolds Long’s short story The Thought-Monster, this film takes place in a small town in Manitoba where strange deaths are accruing and the American airbase nearby is being blamed by the locals. Cosmic Monsters (The Strange World Planet X) (1958) In England, an experiment involving electromagnetic fields is having a negative effect on local insects in the nearby forest. As two of the scientists working on the project (Forrest Tucker, and Gaby André) work on trying to figure out why their experiments are failing while a visitor from another planet (Martin Benson) tries to help. Killers from Space (1954) A nuclear scientist (Peter Graves) survives a
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Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg is nearly unrecognizable in the trailer for Inheritance, from Terminal director Vaughn Stein. Pegg stars alongside Lily Collins (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) in the thriller about the patriarch of a rich and powerful family who dies and leaves his family to cope with a shocking inheritance the threatens to destroy their lives. Connie Nielsen, Michael Beach, Chace Crawford, and Marque Richardson round out the cast. Inheritance will arrive on DirecTV on April 23rd, followed by its release in theaters, on Digital, and On Demand by Vertical Entertainment on May 22nd.
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