The most frequent lament I heard this past weekend at the Nightmares Film Festival was the inability to clone oneself. With four days, two screens, hundreds of great conversations, 155 shorts, and 23 feature films, astral projection would have been the only way to view all of the films from …
Read More »‘Bloody Marie’ (2019) Movie Review – An Astonishing Feat Of Acting
Bloody Marie is a new thriller from directors and Guido van Driel (The Resurrection Of A Bastard 2013). It’s the story of an alcoholic graphic novelist, Marie Wankelmut (the extraordinary Susanne Wolff: The Three Musketeers 2011), who has hits rock bottom. The film also stars Dragos Bucur (Ride Along 2014), …
Read More »A Quarter Century Of ‘Stargate’ (1994) – Retro Review
Television shows based on popular movies can go either way. In 1978, the timeless classic Animal House was released and became one of the greatest comedies in American history. To capitalize on the success, a television show was created to show the day-to-day hi-jinx of the fraternity from the movie. …
Read More »Review: ‘In The Tall Grass’ (2019) Great Premise, but Problematic
Today Stephen King is a hot commodity in Hollywood. It seems that every day I hear news online, that another director is doing an adaptation of one of King’s novels. The success of It: Chapter One and Chapter Two, has certainly started, yet another era of movies based on his …
Read More »‘Fragmentary’ (2019) Movie Review: A Thrilling, Edge of Your Seat Experience
Almost everyone has lost someone they loved. Someone they miss. Some people say they’d do ANYTHING to see them again. If you had the opportunity to travel to an alternate reality to be runited with the one you love, would you? Not knowing why or how? This is what the …
Read More »The Cleansing Hour (2019) Movie Review
The Cleansing Hour is a slow burn, but, at the same time, a rewarding watch if you can make it through to the ending. Throughout the duration of the film, I felt like it had a much longer runtime than 97 minutes. Writer/director/editor Damien LeVeck (Dark, Deadly & Dreadful 2018) …
Read More »Micah Gallo’s ‘Itsy Bitsy’ (2019) A Skin-tingling Movie Review
It’s been awhile since we first talked to Filmmaker Micah Gallo (read our interview with him here) about his eight-legged creature feature, Itsy Bitsy. He had spent years working with Adam Green on the special FX for Frozen (2010) and the Hatchet franchise and was ready to create his first …
Read More »Anthology Flashback #2: ‘One Step Beyond’ (1959–1961)
“What you are about to see is a matter of human record. Explain it: we cannot. Disprove it: we cannot. We simply invite you to explore with us the amazing world of the unknown… to take that One Step… Beyond.” ?— John Newland, host of ABC’s One Step Beyond Once …
Read More »‘The Vice Guide to Bigfoot’ (2019) Movie Review
The Vice Guide to Bigfoot is a satirical mockumentary that follows a hopeless millennial reporter who longs for his dream job. Instead, he finds himself chasing Bigfoot. The film had its World Premiere at the 2019 Austin Film Festival tonight, Friday, October 25th. And it was freaking awesome. This paranormal …
Read More »Our Adventures At Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights 29 (2019) – Part 2
Be sure to check out the first part of my review of Halloween Horror Nights 29, and then continue on right here! Haunted Houses The ten haunted houses of Halloween Horror Nights 28 were split clean down the middle – five based on movies and TV shows, five based on …
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