HARVEST OF THE DEAD: HALLOWEEN NIGHT *** UK 2020 Dirs: Peter Goddard, Terence Elliott. 72 mins Preparing for a Halloween party, Sally Burns (Dani Thompson) grows impatient waiting for her friends to get back from their camping trip, unaware they’ve been killed by The Plague Doctor (Terence Elliott) and The Creature (Gemma Wilks), his partner-in-crime. When her guests Tia (Abby Wareham), Laurie (Rebecca Jean), Ben (Matt Brackstone), and Josh (Nicholas Pearce) do start to show up for the party, they carry on having fun which makes them unaware that they have crashed the party and killing them off one-by-one. As…
Author: Don Anelli
OF THE DEVIL *** USA 2022 Dir: Kelton Jones. 80 mins Concerned about their son’s health, a mother (Daniela Palavacino) and her husband Ben (Jonathan Stoddard) are devastated to learn of a deadly disease he’s contracted that’s left him in a bad condition. Left with nothing else to do, they try to combat their son Alex’s (Lucas Sequeira) cancer diagnosis with an experimental procedure recommended to her by a friend (Eileen Dietz), but after undergoing the procedure his demonic change of behavior forces them to try to rid the spirit controlling him with a series of unconventional and deadly sequences.…
SHOT IN THE DARK ** USA 2021 Dir: Keene McRae. 84 mins Two years ago, William Langston (Kristoffer McMillan) made a mistake that would affect the course of his life. Now, with a killer loose in his hometown and his circle of friends falling away one at a time, William faces his greatest fears as well as his own mortality in a quest to stop the killer from continuing his rampage. This was a serviceable if problematic genre effort. “Shot in the Dark” has its best features with the serial killer angle which results in some brutal sequences of the…
NIGHT CALLER *** USA 2021 Dir: Chad Ferrin. 84 mins After believing she’s seen a murder, telephone psychic Clementine Carter (Susan Priver) is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father Charles (Robert Miano) and fellow clairvoyant co-worker Jade (Bai Ling), they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and…
CAROUSHELL THE 2ND **** USA 2021 Dir: Steve Rudzinski. 78 mins After learning of his illegitimate son, Duke the Talking Unicorn arrives in a small town to help Ms. Laurence (Judy Kirby) the woman raising it, to be more of a father figure in his life. While spending time together, the two begin to bond over their family history and grow close but when he realizes that the evil Nazi organization, led by Ilsa (Aleen Isley), Otto (Terence Lee Cover), Klaus (Mark McConnell Jr), and Katrina (Rebecca Rinehart), that created him in a WWII experiment has come to collect him…