ENTOMBED ** Norway 2020 Dir: Kjell Hammerø. 88 mins Isolation was a slightly upbeat song from the band Joy Division. Now even more so it has become a theme for the horror film. ENTOMBED (2020) is another entry in the ‘down in a hole” sub-genre along with 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016), the original MARTYRS (2008), the SAW series and others that in my opinion are thrillers. ENTOMBED (2020) is the work of Kjell Hammerø who wrote, directed and edited the eighty-eight-minute film. The story is in the bleak near-future filled with fog where zombies known as Walkers are menacing the…
Author: Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood Born in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; Terry is a "Monster kid ', film fan and popular culture person. Once worked in television as a commercial writer/ Director. Writer of the SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET site covering aspects of the Horror Genre from Books, Comics, to Film old and new. He has previously written for WE BELONG DEAD and MONSTERMANIA magazines, The Spooky Isle UK website, Horror hound and Turner Classic Movies. Published Book of own writings titled SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM on amazon world wide plus contributed to other genre books. Chaired numerous convention panel discussions on Horror and Comics Terry is member of The Horror Writers Association and Dracula Society in U.K.
COVEN *** USA 2020 Dir: Margaret Malandruccolo. 80 mins The Teen Witch genre has a new entry in the form of Thriller Pictures release COVEN (2020). The picture is not to be confused with several other films called Coven, The Coven or the series work from the outlandishly fun series American Horror Story. These films are part of the entertainment cycle that spring up when you get a big budget success like THE CRAFT (1996). For film makers, they become easy to make. COVEN (2020) features ‘comely’ college girls who are intent on resurrecting their god Ashura. The coven features…
FLEE THE LIGHT ** Canada 2021 Dir: Alexandra Senza. 81 mins Folk Horror is upon us opening up intriguing possibilities of story. Countries have their own stories even regions presenting a vast area with which to create. FLEE THE LIGHT (2021) from Canada by writer Jennifer Mancini and director Alexandra Senza is a slow burn story of two sisters, Andra (Annie Tuma) and Delfi (Ariana Marquis) who encounter an ageless demonic force in the darkness. Andra is a psychology student who is accepted to a prestigious grad school. Delfi is the younger sister who is tired, confused, and prone to…
THE SLIME PEOPLE ** USA 1963 Dir: Robert Hutton. 76 mins THE SLIME PEOPLE (1963) is a “Poverty Row’ studio Science fiction film directed by Robert Hutton with actors in rubber suits coming out of a service elevator to destroy Los Angeles. This film was featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 which I abhor the series concept of making fun of these films as cheap. Is there anything wrong with a creature feature film? Today that same designation means much the same as it did yesteryear minus the ‘bug-eyed monster’. The Fifties Science fiction pulp books with lurid covers of…
A PERFECT ENEMY **** Spain / Germany / France 2020 Dir: Kike Maíllo. 89 mins Film, no matter what genre, it should have the power to pull you into its world. No doubt the fact that theatres are dark and (for the most cases silent) can help. A PERFECT ENEMY (2020) did this to me without a dark movie house. I also experienced a rare, real and legitimate cold chill in the spine. This leads me to A PERFECT ENEMY (2020), it is one of the most effective pictures I have watched. Some may not find it as effective: there…