THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (a.k.a. Pranks) *** USA 1981 Dir: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow. 81 mins During the Christmas holidays, five students have volunteered to help shut down a condemned dorm, just as a mystery murderer knocks out the power, cuts the phone lines and kills their friends with…
WE THREE QUEENS **** Canada 2018 Dir: Chris Agoston. 9 mins Written by Marni Van Dyk, this is a witty, often funny slice of dark humoured festive fun. The acapella group of the title perform their rendition of “Jingle Bells” while a bout of Yuletide cooking cuts to the three…
HOLIDAY HELL ***** USA 2019 Dir: Jeff Ferrell, Jeff Vigil, Jeremy Berg & David Burns. 100 mins Christmas shopping with malice aforethought. Our curiosity is piqued right from the off in this stunner by a need to know about the whole shop as the devilish curiosity of the film drags…
VAMPIRES **** USA 1998 Dir: John Carpenter. 108 mins The most stylish and bloodiest of Carpenter’s 90’s movies, this adaptation of John Steakley’s novel (by LIFEFORCE screenwriter Don Jakoby) followed major studio R-rated vampire movies FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and BLADE and, like those, led to a pair of (pretty…
PUPPET KILLER ***** 2019 Canada Dir: Lisa Ovies When he was little, Jaime (Aleks Paunovic) and his mother shared a passion for horror movies. After she dies, he watches them all with his best friend, a puppet named Simon (voiced by Lee Majdoub). Ten years later, he returns to his…