FIRSTBORN **** Latvia 2017 Dir: Aik Karapetian. 93 mins After a drunken game at an Oriental-themed dinner party gets uncomfortably personal for middle-class couple Francis (Kaspars Znotins) and Katrina (Maija Doveika), they leave and are assaulted by a motorcycle-riding bag snatcher on the way home. Francis, in a bid to…
Browsing: Artsploitation Films
Artsploitation Films has announced the acquisition of two new genre films: THE DEAD ONES, an American Indie horror directed by Jeremy Kasten and the award-winning sci-fi/horror DEAD DICKS. Both will be released later this summer on DVD/Blu-ray and VOD/Streaming. DEAD DICKS Directed by Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer,…
CHRISTMAS BLOOD (a.k.a. Juleblod) *** Norway 2017 Dir: Reinert Kiil. 104 mins A brutal, creepy prologue sets the scene for this festive Norwegian slasher movie: a Santa-suited killer has notched up a prodigious body count over the last couple of decades, targeting law breakers with his own “naughty list” at…
RED CHRISTMAS **** Australia 2016 Dir: Craig Anderson. 82 mins A bold hybrid of retro-80’s festive slasher, satirical Christmas family drama and button-pushing issues. Widowed matriarch Dee Wallace reunites with her large family at Christmas, a gathering that activates and enhances existing family tensions fuelled further by grief and religion.…
Linus de Paoli’s A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL is a unsettling psychological thriller about a painfully shy graduate student and his increasingly unsettled relationship with a female student. Amanda Plummer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pulp Fiction) co-stars. The film had its International Premiere at London’s FrightFest 2018 and…