VEROTIKA *** USA 2019 Dir: Glenn Danzig. 90 mins “Freak is such a lovely word” the Albino Spider VEROTIKA is an adaptation of Danzigs series of comics VEROTIK. He not only wrote and directed this anthology but, of course, did the score as well. It is a three story anthology consisting of tales of monsters, murder and virgin sacrifice. Featuring an essentially all female cast who you will find primarily acting in porn movies. The male characters in this appear mostly in the background as surly henchmen or drunken strip club patrons with the exception of Scotch Hopkins who plays…
Author: Sarah Budd
ANONYMOUS ANIMALS (a.k.a. Les Animaux Anonymes) **** France 2020 Dir: Baptiste Rouveure. 64 mins In a quiet rural setting in France a role reversal has taken place. Humans are hunted, captured, transported and slaughtered by humanoid creatures with animal heads. A stag surveys his land holding a shotgun just as the hunt begins, a bull and a horse take in the recent delivery of fresh live humans at their abattoir and a terrier finds a wounded human chained to a tree. He takes him in, tends to his wounds and feeds him up only to try his luck at the…
THE DEEP ONES *** USA 2020 Dir: Chad Ferrin. 83 mins Director Chad Ferrin’s (PARASITES (2016) & EXORCISM AT 60,000 FEET (2019)) take on HP Lovecraft’s creatures known as The Deep Ones which were first featured in his short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth. It begins with married couple Alex (Gina La Piana) and husband Petri (Johann Urb) who rent an oceanside AirBnb in the middle of a very odd community. They decided to get away for some time alone together after a recent miscarriage. The inhabitants make themselves familiar with them in various random ways and Alex soon starts…
DEATH RANCH **** UK 2020 Dir: Charlie Steeds. 78 mins Set in Tennessee USA in the 1970’s, African American Brandon Cobbs (Deiandre Teagle) escapes from jail and meets up with siblings Clarence (Travis Cutner) and Angie (Faith Monique). All three take refuge in the old family farm, now abandoned, til the heat is off. During the night Brandon hears a woman screaming and goes to investigate. He comes across a black woman surrounded by members of a KKK cult. He saves her but just before she flees she tells Brandon to get the hell out of there before they find…
12 HOUR SHIFT **** USA 2020 Dir: Brea Grant. 83 mins Drug addicted nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) and work colleague Karen (Nikea Gamby-Turner) have a small business on the side providing organs for trafficking on the black market. Mandy’s cousin (by marriage) Regina is the person that picks up the organs and takes them to the gang paying for them. Regina (Chloe Farnworth) bungles a collection and is threatened by the gang boss Nicholas (Mick “Cactus Jack” Foley) so goes back to the hospital for a replacement. Things go horribly wrong at the hospital as Mandy tries to find a…