CAUGHT *** UK 2018 Dir: Jamie Patterson. 86 mins A beguiling riff on home invasion horror from the talented director of FRACTURED (2016). Set around the Sussex moors circa 1972, it has middle class journalist couple Aaron Davis and Mickey Sumner striving to revive their flagging careers by getting a…
LAKE ARTIFACT ** USA 2019 Dir: Bruce Wemple. 96 mins “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” Leo Tolstoy. Unfortunately, both were missing from this film. Lake Artifact directed by Bruce Wemple (Altered Hours) takes us into a strange hybrid of sci-fi/slasher horror that never really manages to…
THE THEATRE OF TERROR *** U.S.A. 2019 Dir: Tom Ryan. 90 mins When a young woman Amber (Lauren Renahan) answers a call looking for volunteers to help save a mysterious movie palace, she discovers she is too late. The rundown theatre has already been closed down. While visiting the movie…
TOWER OF SILENCE ** USA 2019 Dir: Erik Flynn Patton. 107 mins Tower Of Silence is a noble departure into something a little bit different from the house of High Octane. I waited with anticipation as the good primal opening rolled into what became a strange blend of archaic fictional…
Lycanthropy – There’s a reason they call it a curse It began July 2015. Nick Stead’s debut novel, Hybrid, was released under Wild Wolf Publishing – the first in his werewolf series. Books two and three came out in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and then he took a break from…