by Joseph Perry | Sep 8, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
COLD MEAT (2023) Cold Meat should be gone into — no pun intended — as cold as possible. Learning too much about director Sébastien Drouin’s winter-set horror thriller before watching it would be doing a great disservice to yourself. Suffice it to give you the...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 5, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
FAILURE! (2023) Writer/director Alex Kahuam’s splendidly crafted one-take feature about the highly stressful day of a second-generation plastics factory owner James (Ted Raimi in an excellent performance) trying to come to grips with possibly having to sell his...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 4, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
PAREIDOLIA (2023) Director Aaron Truss’s shock short Pareidolia — a word meaning the phenomenon of our minds attempting to make meaningful images out of patterns or objects when one does not exist, such as seeing a cloud in the shape of a sheep — is a fantastic...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 29, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
HERD (2023) I’m admittedly a hard sell on zombie fare, but am open to seeing if new releases have something different to offer. Although director Stephen Pierce’s Herd follows many of the subgenre’s familiar beats and tropes, it does serve up some novel takes...
by Kelli Marchman McNeely | Aug 25, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movie News, Movie Release, Movies, News, Shudder, TV
Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s twisted tale, Shudder and Lovecraft’s Suitable Flesh premieres at FrightFest. Suitable Flesh sees Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby become obsessed with helping a young patient with an extreme personality disorder. But it leads...
