RED LETTERS *** USA 2019 Dir: Jim Klock. 86 mins When a deputy goes missing, PI Jim Knowles (Jim Klock) is called over to investigate when details don’t add up. Unwilling to accept the story of the missing individual faking his own death, Jim calls upon his friend Mike Gaston (Mike Capozzi) who has psychic abilities to look further into the case using their skills to get to the truth. Realizing theirs more to the story the deeper they dig into the mystery, a larger supernatural mystery is soon unraveled that puts his faith into question as he attempts to…
Author: Don Anelli
BEAST WITHIN *** USA/Canada 2019 Dir: Chris Green, Steven Morana. 80 mins Heading out to a mansion party, video-game developers August (Steven Morana), Remy (Ari Millen) and Cheyanne (Holly Deveaux) are overseeing the final preparations for their boss Brian (Art Hindle) to launch his new video game ‘Werewolf Awaken.’ While having to deal with the usual hassles of trying to get the event going without a hitch as well as their own personal issues cropping up from time-to-time, a series of strange deaths and accidents soon befall several of the guests which look to have been done by something inhuman.…
FRIED BARRY *** South Africa 2020 Dir: Ryan Kruger. 96 mins Waking one morning after a bender, Barry (Gary Green) is quite alarmed at the notion that he can’t remember the night before which his family assumes is nothing out of the ordinary. Still, being plagued by bad dreams and the insistence that something has happened to him soon manifests with the idea that he’s become infected with an alien parasite trying to understand the human and tries to go about understanding the people around him. The more he’s around others, the more he finds his alien-infused powers have a…
RAVAGE ** USA 2019 Dir: Teddy Grennan. 77 mins After escaping a harrowing confrontation, photographer Harper Sykes (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) lies in bed talking to Superintendent Slayton (Michael Weaver) about what led her there. Regaling the story about her latest assignment documenting nature in the area, she ends up stumbling across Nash (Eric Nelson) killing a victim and leaving him for dead of which she takes pictures of and flees. When they notice what she’s done, they chase after her where the group eventually captures her and holds her hostage with Ravener (Robert Longstreet) the local leader. After enduring plenty of…
LX 2048 ** USA 2020 Dir: Guy Moshe. 103 mins In a near-future world, the threatening rays of the Sun have turned deadly, causing widespread death and destruction to Earth forcing the surviving inhabitants into their homes. Forced to utilize VR technology to stave off the toxicity of their daytime environments, Adam Bird (James D’Arcy) grows increasingly concerned about the lack of personal interaction the situation has caused with his wife Reena (Anna Brewster) and their children, eventually taking it to Dr. Maple (Juliet Aubrey) a psychiatrist. Thinking it may not be a mental experience but a physical one, a…