DEAD AIR ** USA 2021 Dir: Kevin Hicks. 90 mins Cinema can sometimes curse you content derivative that it makes you want to scream. Cinema can also delight you in executing time worn ideas effectively and with style. One doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel each time out. But you have to look like you know some of the tools. DEAD AIR (2021), directed by Kevin Hicks and written by Vicki Hicks (who appears in role of Eva) is a thriller that doesn’t thrill until the last 30 minutes. The story concerns William (Kevin Hicks). While cleaning out the home…
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.
SWEET TASTE OF SOULS ** USA 2020 Dir: Terry Ross. 99 mins SWEET TASTE OF SOULS falls into the category of a novice genre film. There are novice pictures are non- threatening, glossy and have situations within the story that have been done better. That being said, novice film is a great way to enter the genre or safely watch with an older person or younger without fear of surprising images to shock them. SWEET TASTE OF SOULS has an intriguing title plus an interesting opening credit sequence that is clearly aimed at the market of those that read R.…
Outdoors is one of the best places people can be now so why not spend those days in the San Gabriel Mountains, shooting a film, Jared Masters and Randy Masters who contributed additional material along with female actor Elizabeth Rath and a host of others finished the principal on ‘QUARTZ VEIN’. QUARTZ VEIN is a post-apocalyptic vampire film shot in full pandemic conditions is now in post-production. The film was Director Jared Masters 15th feature that promises to be a gold standard excursion. The story involves a prospector who helps rescue a girl enslaved by a band of gold injecting…
I AM TOXIC ** Argentina 2018 Dir: Pablo Parés. 76 mins Great title considering what is going on disease wise on the planet. I AM TOXIC (2019) comes from Argentina, technically one of the cradles of zombie folklore before they became Romero driven flesh eating creatures. The film has been unfairly compared in look to MAD MAX for obvious visual and costume reasons; however, that’s where the similarities end. If you are going to work in the genre you have to expect some similarities to all, just as if you were doing gothic horror or the Haunted house. The process…
I AM REN *** Poland. 2019. Dir: Piotr Ryczko. 75 mins Hack attacks on large companies, institutions; even countries, are part of organized warfare. The idea of how to deal with everyday tech is dealt with astonishing melancholia in the Polish film I AM REN (2019), also known as JESTEM REN and PANCACEA. This stylish Cold War, science fiction thriller pits humans against machines for a reason other than the usual conquest scenarios. In I AM REN (2019), the battle becomes human against human, set against the background of one family. What is at stake? The toppling of a regime?…