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With more people having to stay home, why keep it boring? Turn off the lights, get a snack, and get comfy for some more B-movie mayhem! The Crater Lake Monster (1977) After a meteor crashes in a lake, a prehistoric monster emerges from the waters and attacks at random. The local sheriff (Richard Cardella) investigates with the help of three scientists (Bob Hyman, Richard Garrison, and Kacey Cobb) while two locals (Glenn Robers, and Mark Siegel) keep renting out boats to potential victims. The creature effects were directed by legendary stop motion director/artist David Allen. The Bat (1959) The film is a remake of the 1926 silent film of the same name that was based on the 1920 stage play of the same name that was based on the 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The film follows a mystery writer (Agnes Moorehead) who is caught up in a mystery when the serial killer known as “The
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In a world where we can’t agree on anything, there is something we can indeed agree on… B-Movies are awesome! For being out there in storytelling, bad special effects, campy acting, and let’s face it just fun to watch, B-Movies or films like them are always pleasant to watch anytime. What’s better than a B-Movie? The fact that many of these films are in the public domain and can be watched for free on sites like YouTube! Here are 4 films you can watch right now! Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) This film takes place in a small town that is suddenly invaded by aliens and is told through three different storylines, a teenage couple (Steven Terrell and Gloria Castillo) who accidentally hit an alien with their car, two drifters (Frank Gorshin and Lyn Osborn) visiting town trying to make money, and Air Force officials (Douglas Henderson and Sam Buffington) trying to cover up the landing of the flying
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From writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis (interview) comes the brilliant thriller Swallow, now out on Digital and Demand. On the surface, Hunter (Haley Bennett) appears to have it all. A newly pregnant housewife, she seems content to spend her time tending to an immaculate home and doting on her Ken-doll husband, Richie (Austin Stowell). However, as the pressure to meet her controlling in-laws and husband’s rigid expectations mounts, cracks begin to appear in her carefully created facade. Hunter develops a dangerous habit, and a dark secret from her past seeps out in the form of a disorder called pica – a condition that has her compulsively swallowing inedible, and oftentimes life-threatening, objects. A provocative and squirm-inducing psychological thriller, Swallow follows one woman’s unraveling as she struggles to reclaim independence in the face of an oppressive system by whatever means possible. Austin Stowell, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, and Denis O’Hare also star in Swallow that won Haley Bennett the Tribeca Film Festival award
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A down-home gal who goes by Callie (Ashley Judd) takes in a confused, injured young dude with the unlikely name of Darkly Noon (Brendan Fraser). Well, seems our boy Darkly used to be a member of one of those batshit religious cults that the feds went Waco on. Anyway, Callie’s mute boyfriend Clay (Viggo Mortensen) comes into the scene and things begin to sour… and that trend only continues as Darkly meets Clay’s mama Roxy (Grace Zabriskie) who tells him his new “friends” aren’t who they appear to be… it involves witches and bullshit that she weaves together into a big ol’ lie tapestry for our rattled protagonist. What will obtaining this info hold for Darkly? I’ll sum it up for you; he goes completely off the deepest of deep fuckin’ ends. Existing in a bizarre world just a step left of our own, The Passion of Darkly Noon is a hell of a fever-dream thriller! Characters are either completely
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The award-winning thriller The Other Lamb, which made waves at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival last year, is now headed your way this April. From the Polish award-winning director Malgorzata Szumowska and the producer of Nightcrawler, and starring Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, and Denise Gough, the film explores the horrors of toxic masculinity and the abuse of power through the eyes of a teenage girl, who is beginning to question everything about her existence. “For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about
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From producers of Tuftland comes Sami Pöyry‘s new gritty psychedelic thriller, Red Static whose teaser trailer has arrived, giving us a taste of what’s to come. The film directed and written by Pöyry tells the story of Timo, a lonely man living on a secluded farm, who invites his childhood friends for a visit. He has a plan that will change their lives forever. The gritty and almost psychedelic film addresses the same issues as the Oscar winners Parasite and Joker; mental health issues and alienation from society. Red Static (also known as Punainen Kohina), filmed in the Finnish countryside under the sunlight of summer nights, stars the established faces of Finnish independent and genre cinema Jari Manninen, Roope Olenius, Veera W. Vilo, Jere Saarela and Saara Elina. The film is a co-production between Monadi-Filmi and Bright Fame Pictures. Olenius and Vilo, also producers of the film, are familiar faces behind the award-winning hillbilly horror Tuftland (2017) and upcoming figure-skating
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Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia‘s twisted sci-fi thriller The Platform, also known as El Hoyo, arrives on Netflix this March. The trailer depicts mankind at its darkest, pitting the class against one another. Some will eat, some will starve. Set inside a vertical prison system with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Pit. Starring Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Jauan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay, and Zihara Llana, the film was written by David Desola and Pedro Rivero. The Platform hits Netflix on March 20th, 2020
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The long and short of Space goes as follows: in the future year 2050, things ain’t fuckin’ nifty for Dr. Ada Gray (Lara Jean Sullivan) and her comrades aboard The Udo. You see, after one of your outer space accidents, which are a lot like normal accidents, just with the outer space part ramped-up considerably, these folks find themselves involved in a fight for survival leaves them stranded out in the middle of nowhere, your galaxy, U.S. of A. Seems like a simple premise, and for the most part it is, but man does this flick do a ton of things right! Let’s start with the cast, all of whom are pretty solid performers, but the stand-out for your’s cruelly was the aforementioned Lara Jean Sullivan who carries the picture with an engaging performance that adds a ton of heart and soul to a picture that has plenty to spare! Plus it’s always cool to see modern-day exploitation maestro Len
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Richie (Kris Reilly) and Cassidy’s (Kaiti Wallen) are having a lil’ shindig, and they’ve had the seemingly shit-hot idea of hiring a psychic named Vesna (Aphrodite Nikolovski) to tickle the ol’ preternatural pickle and hopefully conjure up some grins. Well ol’ V-dawg suggests the group have themselves a lil’ seance action, which leaves Rich a tad lukewarm, seeing as how he’s a skeptical bastard at heart. Well, as fate, and horror movie goings-on would have it, his instincts are right, as during that spirit chat sesh, some eerie entity or another decides our world is looks waaay better than nay demonic digs it now inhabits and decides to cross the veil right quick… and bad news, said presence may actually be the spirit of richie’s long-dead Pappy, which would really place the terror turd well and truly in the ol’ punch bowl! Now just why wouldn’t that be a welcome family reunion, well… said father, Carter (Yan Birch fromThe People
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Halloween‘s Scout Taylor-Compton finds herself kidnapped in the trailer for writer-director Lane Toran‘s unnerving cult thriller Getaway, from Uncork’d Entertainment. “Tamara Miller (Jaclyn Betham) has planned a weekend lake getaway with her two best friends. When she gets kidnapped by a backwoods cult, eerie and unexplained occurrences arise. Will she make it out alive or become the treasure of these deranged lunatics?” Landry Allbright (“Star Trek: Picard”), Lane Toran (“Hey Arnold”), Jamil Walker Smith (“Stargate Universe”), Jaclyn Betham (“The Haves and Have Nots”), Ben Deschaine (Super Shark), and Chrystopher Ryan Johnson (“The Riches”) also star in the thriller written co-written by Betham. Getaway is available on DVD and Digital April 14th.
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With more people having to stay home, why keep it boring? Turn off the lights, get a snack, and get comfy for some more B-movie mayhem! The Crater Lake Monster (1977) After a meteor crashes in a lake, a prehistoric monster emerges from the waters and attacks at random. The local sheriff (Richard Cardella) investigates with the help of three scientists (Bob Hyman, Richard Garrison, and Kacey Cobb) while two locals (Glenn Robers, and Mark Siegel) keep renting out boats to potential victims. The creature effects were directed by legendary stop motion director/artist David Allen. The Bat (1959) The film is a remake of the 1926 silent film of the same name that was based on the 1920 stage play of the same name that was based on the 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The film follows a mystery writer (Agnes Moorehead) who is caught up in a mystery when the serial killer known as “The
Continue reading →
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In a world where we can’t agree on anything, there is something we can indeed agree on… B-Movies are awesome! For being out there in storytelling, bad special effects, campy acting, and let’s face it just fun to watch, B-Movies or films like them are always pleasant to watch anytime. What’s better than a B-Movie? The fact that many of these films are in the public domain and can be watched for free on sites like YouTube! Here are 4 films you can watch right now! Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) This film takes place in a small town that is suddenly invaded by aliens and is told through three different storylines, a teenage couple (Steven Terrell and Gloria Castillo) who accidentally hit an alien with their car, two drifters (Frank Gorshin and Lyn Osborn) visiting town trying to make money, and Air Force officials (Douglas Henderson and Sam Buffington) trying to cover up the landing of the flying
Continue reading →
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From writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis (interview) comes the brilliant thriller Swallow, now out on Digital and Demand. On the surface, Hunter (Haley Bennett) appears to have it all. A newly pregnant housewife, she seems content to spend her time tending to an immaculate home and doting on her Ken-doll husband, Richie (Austin Stowell). However, as the pressure to meet her controlling in-laws and husband’s rigid expectations mounts, cracks begin to appear in her carefully created facade. Hunter develops a dangerous habit, and a dark secret from her past seeps out in the form of a disorder called pica – a condition that has her compulsively swallowing inedible, and oftentimes life-threatening, objects. A provocative and squirm-inducing psychological thriller, Swallow follows one woman’s unraveling as she struggles to reclaim independence in the face of an oppressive system by whatever means possible. Austin Stowell, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, and Denis O’Hare also star in Swallow that won Haley Bennett the Tribeca Film Festival award
Continue reading →
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A down-home gal who goes by Callie (Ashley Judd) takes in a confused, injured young dude with the unlikely name of Darkly Noon (Brendan Fraser). Well, seems our boy Darkly used to be a member of one of those batshit religious cults that the feds went Waco on. Anyway, Callie’s mute boyfriend Clay (Viggo Mortensen) comes into the scene and things begin to sour… and that trend only continues as Darkly meets Clay’s mama Roxy (Grace Zabriskie) who tells him his new “friends” aren’t who they appear to be… it involves witches and bullshit that she weaves together into a big ol’ lie tapestry for our rattled protagonist. What will obtaining this info hold for Darkly? I’ll sum it up for you; he goes completely off the deepest of deep fuckin’ ends. Existing in a bizarre world just a step left of our own, The Passion of Darkly Noon is a hell of a fever-dream thriller! Characters are either completely
Continue reading →
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The award-winning thriller The Other Lamb, which made waves at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival last year, is now headed your way this April. From the Polish award-winning director Malgorzata Szumowska and the producer of Nightcrawler, and starring Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, and Denise Gough, the film explores the horrors of toxic masculinity and the abuse of power through the eyes of a teenage girl, who is beginning to question everything about her existence. “For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about
Continue reading →
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From producers of Tuftland comes Sami Pöyry‘s new gritty psychedelic thriller, Red Static whose teaser trailer has arrived, giving us a taste of what’s to come. The film directed and written by Pöyry tells the story of Timo, a lonely man living on a secluded farm, who invites his childhood friends for a visit. He has a plan that will change their lives forever. The gritty and almost psychedelic film addresses the same issues as the Oscar winners Parasite and Joker; mental health issues and alienation from society. Red Static (also known as Punainen Kohina), filmed in the Finnish countryside under the sunlight of summer nights, stars the established faces of Finnish independent and genre cinema Jari Manninen, Roope Olenius, Veera W. Vilo, Jere Saarela and Saara Elina. The film is a co-production between Monadi-Filmi and Bright Fame Pictures. Olenius and Vilo, also producers of the film, are familiar faces behind the award-winning hillbilly horror Tuftland (2017) and upcoming figure-skating
Continue reading →
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Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia‘s twisted sci-fi thriller The Platform, also known as El Hoyo, arrives on Netflix this March. The trailer depicts mankind at its darkest, pitting the class against one another. Some will eat, some will starve. Set inside a vertical prison system with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Pit. Starring Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Jauan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay, and Zihara Llana, the film was written by David Desola and Pedro Rivero. The Platform hits Netflix on March 20th, 2020
Continue reading →
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The long and short of Space goes as follows: in the future year 2050, things ain’t fuckin’ nifty for Dr. Ada Gray (Lara Jean Sullivan) and her comrades aboard The Udo. You see, after one of your outer space accidents, which are a lot like normal accidents, just with the outer space part ramped-up considerably, these folks find themselves involved in a fight for survival leaves them stranded out in the middle of nowhere, your galaxy, U.S. of A. Seems like a simple premise, and for the most part it is, but man does this flick do a ton of things right! Let’s start with the cast, all of whom are pretty solid performers, but the stand-out for your’s cruelly was the aforementioned Lara Jean Sullivan who carries the picture with an engaging performance that adds a ton of heart and soul to a picture that has plenty to spare! Plus it’s always cool to see modern-day exploitation maestro Len
Continue reading →
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Richie (Kris Reilly) and Cassidy’s (Kaiti Wallen) are having a lil’ shindig, and they’ve had the seemingly shit-hot idea of hiring a psychic named Vesna (Aphrodite Nikolovski) to tickle the ol’ preternatural pickle and hopefully conjure up some grins. Well ol’ V-dawg suggests the group have themselves a lil’ seance action, which leaves Rich a tad lukewarm, seeing as how he’s a skeptical bastard at heart. Well, as fate, and horror movie goings-on would have it, his instincts are right, as during that spirit chat sesh, some eerie entity or another decides our world is looks waaay better than nay demonic digs it now inhabits and decides to cross the veil right quick… and bad news, said presence may actually be the spirit of richie’s long-dead Pappy, which would really place the terror turd well and truly in the ol’ punch bowl! Now just why wouldn’t that be a welcome family reunion, well… said father, Carter (Yan Birch fromThe People
Continue reading →
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Halloween‘s Scout Taylor-Compton finds herself kidnapped in the trailer for writer-director Lane Toran‘s unnerving cult thriller Getaway, from Uncork’d Entertainment. “Tamara Miller (Jaclyn Betham) has planned a weekend lake getaway with her two best friends. When she gets kidnapped by a backwoods cult, eerie and unexplained occurrences arise. Will she make it out alive or become the treasure of these deranged lunatics?” Landry Allbright (“Star Trek: Picard”), Lane Toran (“Hey Arnold”), Jamil Walker Smith (“Stargate Universe”), Jaclyn Betham (“The Haves and Have Nots”), Ben Deschaine (Super Shark), and Chrystopher Ryan Johnson (“The Riches”) also star in the thriller written co-written by Betham. Getaway is available on DVD and Digital April 14th.
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