BLISS *** USA 2019 Dir: Joe Begos. 80 mins Although he has yet to make a fully satisfying feature, there is much to admire in writer-director Joe Begos’ 80’s-infused output, and BLISS cuts loose in ways that ALMOST HUMAN and THE MIND’S EYE never quite managed, even if it doesn’t…
OFFSPRING ** USA 2009 Dir: Andrew van den Houten. 80 mins Adapted by Jack Ketchum from his own novel sequel to the superior “The Off Season”, this is a tacky poor man’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES. Retired, hard-drinking cop Art Hindle is dragged out of retirement when the brutal…
HERE COMES HELL *** UK 2018 Dir: Jack McHenry. 80 mins Set in the 1930’s, shot in Lincoln and filmed in black and white in Academy ratio, this opens as a riff on Agatha Christie-infused old dark house murder mysteries and incorporates an initial straight-to-camera curtain-raising intro in the spirit…
101 Films presents PROM NIGHT (1980), a slasher classic and one of the most influential horror films of the 1980s, released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in an extras-packed limited edition. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis (HALLOWEEN) and Leslie Nielsen (AIRPLANE!), and adorned with a highly-regarded original…
Production wraps on multi award-winning filmmaker Michael S. Rodriguez (the upcoming LAKE OF SHADOWS starring Robert LaSardo) LAST AMERICAN HORROR SHOW VOL. 2 starring Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s GAME OF DEATH, Harley Wallen’s ETERNAL CODE), Maria Olsen (PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: DEJA VU), Helene Udy (Dr.…