MIND LEECH **** Canada 2023 Dir: Chris Cheeseman & Paul Krysinski. 60 mins 1998, what a year. Titanic dominated the Oscars, Harrison Ford was named People magazine’s sexiest man alive, Google was founded…oh and a persistent leech was causing havoc in rural snowy Canada. MIND LEECH opens with two guys…
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CONTROL ** Canada 2022 Dir: James Mark. 90 mins Another in the growing army of perfect-Covid era movies: a stripped down, one-room (save for beach-based flashbacks), mostly two-character containment piece. Sadly, it’s also yet another entry in the over-crowded cycle of “Sadistic KRYPTON FACTOR” movies spun off from Canada’s CUBE…
COVENANT *** USA 2018 Dir: Manuel H. Da Silva. 86 mins When our PTSD stricken hero Ian returns to his dead mother’s house in the strange township of Forest Hill all hell starts to break loose in this creepy devil cult shocker from the house of High Octane. The FX…
BREAK IN BREAK OUT **** Canada 2019 Dir: Michael Driscoll. 8 mins This latest short from the clearly talented Michael Driscoll (BE RIGHT BACK, TWO BLACK COFFEES, TO THE BOATS) is a sardonic, frenetic, technically superb take on the now-overdone home invasion scenario for jaded 21st century audiences. There are…
NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE YOU **** Canada 2018 Dir: Frederic Chalte. 6 mins A clever, creepy twist on one of the recurring tropes of 1980’s mainstream American horror: the intense childhood fear of a monster in the closet. Writer-director Frederic Chalte, who made the excellent THE BABYSITTER (2016) knows…