LAKE OF DEATH *** Norway 2019 Dir: Nini Bull Robsahm. 94 mins Based on the 1958 movie LAKE OF THE DEAD this 21st century adaptation introduces us to Lillian (Iben Akerlie) and a group of her friends as they go back to her families cabin by the lake where her twin brother Bjorn (Patrick Walshe McBride) drowned a year ago. Plagued by guilt which is causing her to sleepwalk and have recurring nightmares of black slime Lillian wanted to go back there to face her demons and get some closure on the situation as she believes it was Bjorns jealousy…
Author: Sarah Budd
A NIGHT OF HORROR: NIGHTMARE RADIO **** Argentina/New Zealand/UK 2019 Dir: Luciano & Nicholas Onetti. 124 mins This anthology incorporates the grand total of 8… well, 9 short movies if you count the wraparound into a very entertaining and fast paced 1 hour and forty-five minutes. The wraparound story directed by the Onetti brothers starts off with Rod (James Wright) a DJ on the graveyard shift filling the time by telling scary stories to his listeners, in turn he gets a few people call in with stories of their own. It is a strange and stormy night at the studio…
SERENA WAITS *** USA 2018 Dir: Hunter Johnson. 80 mins Serena (Brialynn Massie) makes possibly one of her worst decisions ever and leaves a party to walk home on her own when she is very, very drunk. She meets two pumped up meat head frat boys and allows them to take her back to their place. Things go sideways quickly for Serena as main jock Jack (Colton Wheeler) rapes her whilst Miles (David Wesley Marlowe) films them. As soon as she realises what is happening Serena tries to defend herself and ends up getting beaten. Calling in their more sensible…
HOMEWRECKER **** Canada 2019 Dir: Zach Gayne. 76 mins Linda (Precious Chong) is a lonely lady in her late 40’s going through a bit of a tough time. She befriends Michelle (Alex Essoe) a meek, mousy 30 something, interior designer who recently got married. They meet at the gym and then again at their local coffee shop, Linda invites Michelle to her house with a view to her redesigning it for her. Linda traps Michelle in her house and things quickly escalate from there, she forces her to watch movies, play board games and talk about boys. When Michelle tries…
HALL *** Canada 2020 Dir: Francesco Giannini. 80 mins “This place is sick… and now so are you my love”With urgent news of a “flu” epidemic sweeping the country a pregnant Japanese woman (Yumiko Shaku) who is fleeing her country and opressive husband checks into a hotel and heads up to her room on the third floor. At the same time a couple (Carolina Bartczak & Mark Gibson) with their young daughter (Bailey Thain) also arrive and go up to the third floor. It’s not all happy families here though and it soon becomes apparent that the husband has violent…