After the success of the first film, Demon Squad (2019), and a Kickstarter (Read about the Kickstarter) campaign, director Thomas Smith is back to bring the “Demon Squad” to tackle their greatest foe yet. When a string of brutal killings is linked to a werewolf, paranormal investigator Nick Moon (Khristian …
Read More »Maui Owie: ‘PRIMATE’ (2026) – Movie Review
After returning home to Hawaii, Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah: Dexter: New Blood 2022) is excited to see her estranged family. She’s brought along her best friends to meet her eccentric kin. After years apart, she’s reunited with her novelist father (Troy Kotsur: The Number 23 2007), her sister Kate (Victoria Wyant: …
Read More »Feliz Navi-DEAD: ‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (2025) – Movie Review
After a childhood encounter with Santa leaves both of his parents dead, Billy (Rohan Campbell, Halloween Ends 2022) becomes a killer transient who spends his holiday seasons spreading holiday cheer in his own twisted way. This Christmas, he ends up in Hackett, Minnesota, where he meets Pamela (Ruby Modine, Happy …
Read More »Happenstance Horror Fest 2025 – ‘Fears With Queers’ Shorts
Taking over Salem, Massachusetts, Happenstance Horror Fest (HHF) provides an opportunity for horror of all subgenres to be shared with blood thirsty horror fans. For fans of queer cinema, HHF celebrates the LGBTQ+ community with its first-ever queer horror block, Fears With Queers. Pride~In~Our~Steps Directed By: Jonathan Riles Synopsis: Artists …
Read More »Blood, Sweat, and Fears: ‘IN OUR BLOOD’ (2024) – Movie Review
Nothing is as it seems when filmmaker Emily Wyland (Brittany O’Grady: White Lotus 2021) teams up with cinematographer Danny (E. J. Bonilla: The Exorcist: Believer 2023) to shoot In Our Blood, an intimate documentary about reuniting with Emily’s estranged mother (Alanna Ubach: The Last of Us 2025) after a decade …
Read More »Lost in a Sea of Monotony: ‘THE DROWNED’ (2025) – Movie Review
Making his feature film debut, director Samuel Clemens takes viewers on an isolating trip to a house that feels abandoned near the edge of the world. Woven with references to Greek mythology, The Drowned follows three thieves who have just stolen a priceless painting and arrive at a secluded safe …
Read More »Living Dead Girls: A. Rushby’s ‘SLASHED BEAUTIES’ (2025) – Book Review
Author A. Rushby (The Stand In 2022) takes readers on a journey into the dark underbelly of Georgian-era London with Slashed Beauties. In an attempt to entice male medical students to study female anatomy in eighteenth-century London, ultrarealistic wax figures of women are created – otherwise known as anatomical Venuses. …
Read More »Merry-Gore-Round: ‘PLAYGROUND: CHILD OF DIVORCE’ (2025) – Book Review
It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are? Playground: Child of Divorce (COD) is the prequel to 2022’s infamously viral TikTok hit, Playground, taking place a few years before Geraldine’s twisted arena was fully built. Author Aron Beauregard has returned to bring readers once again into Geraldine Borden’s …
Read More »Home is Where the Hurt Is: ‘THE HOME’ (2025) – Movie Review
Dealing with the horrors of losing his older foster brother to suicide, Max (Pete Davidson: Bodies Bodies Bodies 2022) has turned to a life of petty crime. After one too many run-ins with the law, Max is forced into working at a retirement home to avoid jail time. Initially, this …
Read More »Doodles of Doom: Seth Worley’s ‘SKETCH’ (2025) – Movie Review
Seth Worley makes his feature film debut as the writer & director for Sketch. Tony Hale (Veep 2012-2019) stars as a widowed father struggling to raise his two children amid the loss of their mother. Having trouble coping with the emotions of loss, Amber (Bianca Belle: Lady in the Lake …
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