THE MADNESS WITHIN ** USA 2019 Dir: Hunter G. Williams. 97 mins Russ Washington (Hunter G. Williams) has it all… big budget movie to make, fast cars, women and as much coke to stuff up his nose as he likes. However, he also has his best friend and business partner, Marcus (Edin Gali) who is a complete liability spending all the budget on parties and gambling before its really started, a director who is holding them behind schedule and he just started a relationship with a hooker. With his expensive habit becoming a lifestyle and his on/off association causing him…
Author: Sarah Budd
SKY SHARKS **** Germany 2020 Dir: Marc Fehse. 110 mins After being teased of this upcoming Nazi zombie/flying shark combo for what feels like a good couple of years now the wait is finally over! SKY SHARKS has been released into the wild premiering here in the UK as the opening movie of this year’s online Frightfest film festival and let me just say what a great choice to kick things off with. I guess given its reception it was possibly a bit risky but for the most part it was met with a positive reaction as long as you’re…
ISLAND ZERO *** USA 2018 Dir: Josh Gerritsen. 99 mins A remote fishing town on an island just off from Maine becomes cut off from the main land. Phone lines, internet and power is cut off and the ferry stops showing up. The islands inhabitants are already twitchy as their main source of income, fishing, has already been jeopardised. The fish have all disappeared and now the fisherman’s boats are being found adrift with no sign of human life just a lot of blood. Local marine biologist Sam (Adam Wade McLaughlin) slowly comes around to the theory that there may…
AMERICAN VIRUS *** USA 2015 Dir: Shane Ryan. 6 mins A fast and furious short that follows a zombie outbreak on the streets of America. After the initial panic there are reports that the area has been successfully contained and quarantined although this may not be for long. A group of freedom fighters as such are staging an uprising. The group headed up by Director Shane Ryan and writers Tommie Vegas and Kathryn Eastwood (daughter of Clint Eastwood) report and live stream themselves injecting bodies with the virus to start it all off again and bring the world to it’s…
HUNTER’S MOON *** USA 2020 Dir: Michael Caissie. 81 mins After the mysterious death of a serial killer a new family move into his house. His strange and gruesome demise comes to the forefront when the parents leave their three teenage daughters home alone, not only do they have to fend off whatever it is lurking about outside in their orchard but the local town delinquents decide to pay the girls a visit, leaving the local law enforcement baffled at the carnage that ensues. Part home invasion part monster movie this light take on the werewolf troupe has an interesting…