THE BLACKBURN ASYLUM (a.k.a. Blackburn) ** Canada 2015 Dir: Lauro Chartrand. 84 mins Released in the UK as BLACKBURN, this British Columbia-shot riff on the backwoods slasher sub-genre follows five unappealing (and long in the tooth) college students who get stranded by a hokey CGI landslide and a forest fire.…
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NEVER TEAR US APART **** Canada 2015 Dir: Sid Zanforlin. 7 mins The title nods amusingly to a memorable track from INXS, while the arresting opening tips its hat to the torture movie, as two guys in the woods stumble across a cabin in the woods where a homely looking…
SILENT RETREAT *** Canada 2013 Dir: Tricia Lee. 91 mins The feature directorial debut for Tricia Lee follows a long chain of horror movies set at rehabilitation retreats (everything from BAD DREAMS through to TICKS and THE MASTER CLEANSE) but finds some beguiling new riffs. Troubled young Chelsea Jenish is…
GHOSTKEEPERS *** Canada 2012 Dir: Anthony D.P. Mann 85 mins Barry Bird is a huge fan of the film ‘The House Where Evil Was Born’ and persuades some of the cast to join him at the films original location (Marlowe House) for his podcast. The cast who join him are…
SCARS **** Canada 2016 Dir: Sean K. Robb 108 mins Opening with buxom punk girl Scar killing her abusive boyfriend we are soon introduced to extortionist Scarlett. After Scarlett’s recent blackmail victim takes things in to his own hands by beating her up in an alley, Scar comes out of…