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In the new short horror film, Me & My Shadow, directed by Steve Call (Tears In The Dust 2017), the subject of depression and suicide is touched on in an interesting and thoughtful manner. The film stars Dean Sills (Grindsploitation 2016) and clocks in at a brisk five minutes long. …

Love is filling the air as Valentine’s Day quickly approaches, leaving Halloween fanatics longing for their favorite time of year. However, up-and-coming filmmaker Elwood Quincy Walker (Kissed 2019) has just the remedy for this monster mash love sickness with his horror short, Trick. Packing a big punch with its brief …

Exorcism films are fun because they’re scary, and often, they deal with unfamiliar themes. On the other hand, they almost always include the all too familiar young woman in a tattered, dirty nightgown with ashy skin, facial wounds, and lips as dry as the Sahara, screaming demonic vitriol in a …

I’ve been dying to see The Lodge for the past year and when the official trailer dropped a few weeks ago, it sent chills down my spine. However, nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see. The film was co-directed by Goodnight Mommy’s Severin Fiala and …

Greenlight is a thriller about an amateur director who gets his opportunity at creating a feature-length film, but there’s a catch. One of the crew must suffer a terrible fate. The film was both created and directed by Graham Denman, his directorial debut in a feature-length film, who’s also an …

Born on February 4, 1940, George A. Romero is well known as a horror icon and the co-creator of the modern, man-eating zombie (along with John Russo). In fact, as crazy and fanboy-ish as this sounds, it’s actually difficult to exaggerate his influence on pop culture. Virtually everyone is familiar …

Mental illness is a subject that is often explored in movies, but rarely as raw and successfully done as in Writer/Director Dean Kapsalis’ (Jigsaw Venus 2000) The Swerve. The film stars a fragile, nearly stripped to the core Azura Skye (One Missed Call 2008) as Holly, a woman who slowly …

I love a good revenge story and Mon Mon Mon Monsters is definitely one will leaving you aching for revenge. Painfully so.   This film was written and directed by Giddens Ko (You Are the Apple of My Eye). The cast includes Eugenie Liu (Behind Your Smile), Pei-Hsin Lin, Carolyn …

Directed by Matthew John Lawrence (Larry Gone Demon 2015), Uncle Peckerhead shines a very different light on the semi-glamorous life of a touring musician. The film opens as Judy (a brilliant Chet Siegel: The Last Two People On Earth TV series), the lead singer/bass player of the group DUH, quits …

I absolutely love interviewing young talent. They’re so inspirational and have their whole lives ahead of them. That’s why I was honored when someone reached out to me about a young and brilliant actress and performer, Jonni Shandor. She may be young, but she knows what she wants and she’s …