2019 BITS Film Festival Short: New Woman Is A Stunning Achievement

Playing this weekend at the 2019 Blood in the Snow Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, is a stunning short film by Benjamin Noah (Frontier TV series) called New Woman. The film stars Rhiannon Morgan (Black Conflux 2019) and Stephen Oates (Riverhead 2016). Synopsis: New Woman is a Gothic romance surrounding …

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2019 BITS Film Festival: Review Of Kyle Martellacci’s ‘She Must Vanish’

Showing this weekend at the 2019 Blood in the Snow Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, is a short film by Kyle Martellacci (The Scarlet Vultures 2018) called She Must Vanish. The film stars Anne-Carolyne Binette (Age Of The Living Dead 2018), Renny Jachowicz (Candy Skin 2016), Meri Spencer, (Message From …

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Moody And Topical ‘Rojo’ (2019) Is A Terrifying Glimpse Of A Complacent Society

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke. In the case of the 2019 movie Rojo, directed by Benjamin Naishtat (History of Fear 2014), we see how the complacency of an entire population will allow a military dictatorship to slowly …

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2019 BITS: ‘She Never Died,’ An Electric Companion Piece To ‘He Never Died’

Playing at the 2019 Blood in the Snow Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, is an amazing new film directed by Darken’s (2017) Audrey Cummings (read our interview with her here) called She Never Died. The film stars Olunike Adeliyi (The Prodigy 2019 – read our review here), Peter MacNeill (A …

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Interview with Filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer of ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’

This past September I attended Beyond Fest for the screening of Richard Stanley’s long-awaited Color Out of Space. It played a double feature with Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real, a horror story about a traumatized young man who awakens his childhood imaginary friend to help him cope. Both films …

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‘Gwendy’s Magic Feather’ (2019) Book Review

We return to Castle Rock once again in Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar. The novel is the second installment in the series following Gwendy’s Button Box, which was co-written by Chizmar and Stephen King. Gwendy Peterson is now thirty-seven and a congresswoman. She is completely different from the anxious teen who …

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Interview With ‘She Never Died’ Director Audrey Cummings!

So many amazing films have premiered this year, including Audrey Cummings’ She Never Died (read our review – here). It is currently having a very successful festival run. We had the chance to watch it for Screamfest and this Friday it premieres at BITS 2019. I was stoked to be …

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Daybreak: Our Thoughts On Netflix’s New Post-Apocalyptic Comedy Series

Do you have a plan for the apocalypse? Neither did Josh Wheeler, but that didn’t stop him from having the time of his life! Based off of a 2011 graphic novel by Bryan Ralph, Daybreak tells the story of Josh (Colin Ford: Under the Dome TV series) as he navigates …

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‘The Tokoloshe’ (2018) Is A Tale Of Innocence Lost – Movie Review

A tokoloshe is a creature from Zulu mythology who terrorizes people (mostly children) in their sleep, leaving long scratches on their bodies before choking them to death. Director Jerome Pikwane’s debut film, The Tokoloshe, blends this myth with the story of a broken girl struggling to survive in modern Johannesburg. …

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Sadie: A Shocking New Short by Myles Erfurth – Movie Review

What happens when we die? What’s waiting for us on the other side? The new short film, Sadie,seeks to answer that. Written and directed by Myles Erfurth (Crocodylus 2017) and produced by newcomer Jamie “T” Trisheim, the film is about a woman named Sadie (Constance Payne: Crocodylus 2017) who chooses …

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