The crime drama Respite (2021) wants to make a point about how past sins can prompt revenge. And it does so in some ways… it just gets a little too predictable and imitative. Gravitas Ventures recently snagged North American rights to Saro Varjabedian’s (Me To Play 2021) gritty feature film. Private …

There’s a million ways to deal with the death of a partner. Therapy, religion, meditation… hell, even multi-level marketing, if that blows your hair back. But Truly, Madly (2020) is the only movie I’ve seen where a recently widowed religious woman, Barbara (Sondra Carver), seeks solace in a murderous obsession …

Roughly 10 seconds into the trailer for The Kingdom of Var (2019), I figured I was getting ready to lose some IQ points. Man, was I wrong. By the end of the micro-budget indie horror feature, I felt like Stephen Hawking. Internet chatter’s been building on The Kingdom of Var …

Much like the main character, I never knew quite where things stood in A Stranger Among The Living (2020). The film has a way of establishing “rules,” and then pulling the rug out in a way that could easily frustrate the audience, but instead, compels you to keep watching. The …

Detroit Driller Killer (2020) opens with a shot of a dead rodent on a sidewalk getting stepped on — and things only get gnarlier and bleaker from there. Director Matt Jaissle (Necro Files 3000 2017) has re-imagined an indie homage to Abel Ferrara’s classic, The Driller Killer (1979), and it’s bloody, …

Philophobia: or the Fear of Falling in Love (2019) is like a talky ’90s relationship film mixed with supernatural haunting. Or, it’s all about a psychotic break borne of anxiety, booze, and stress. Take your pick. Damien Booster (Aaron Burt: Money? 2018) – and I’m sure his last name means …

In Horror Movie Land, Ouija boards and bad decisions go together like peanut butter and jelly. And while the new trailer for the upcoming Deathboard (2019) certainly delivers on the nostalgia, it’s also marked with the goofiness and charm we’ve come to expect from indie staple Fuzzy Monkey Films. I’ve …

Nekrotronic (2018) is probably the only movie I’ve seen with a hero who is described as a “down on his luck sewage worker.” And it’s almost CERTAINLY the only movie where Italian model and screen goddess Monica Bellucci (Irréversible 2002) gets shotgunned out of a tall building and lands in …

It’d be a mistake to call Her Name Was Christa a James L. Edwards’ comeback movie. To paraphrase Billie Holiday, he never went away to begin with. Edwards is probably best known for his roles in Bloodletting (1997), Polymorph (1996), The Dead Next Door (1989), Robot Ninja (1989) and Killer …

Bad CGI Sharks is a bit of a misleading title, but I mean that in the most complementary way. Yes, the computer-generated chompers are technically bad… cringy, even, in the words of my 13 year-old. But they’re SUPPOSED to be, and in the end, they’re practically the only negative in …