BLOOD CHILD **** USA / Canada 2017 Dir: Jennifer Phillips. 93 mins Despite opening with the cliched “based on true events” on-screen caption, there’s a lot more going on beneath the surface of writer-director Jennifer Phillips’ feature debut than you’d expect. Almost a year after suffering a miscarriage in Singapore,…
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COLD SKIN **** Spain/France 2017 Dir: Xavier Gens 108 mins An adaptation of Albert Sanchez Pinol’s novel of the same name. This is set in 1914, a young man is sent to a remote island out by the Antarctic Circle to become the islands weather observer. On arrival he discovers…
It took some time for fright-fans to really groove to the eclectic, insane and often inane brilliance of the late Bruno Mattei (ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH). Now, belatedly, viewed as a master of cut-price plasma-spillage, the time is ripe to revisit one of the great man’s wildest accomplishments – RATS: NIGHT…
Following a year on the international film festival circuit, BLOOD CHILD has headed back to the States with a national Cable and Digital HD release out now. Writer-director Jennifer Phillips makes her film debut with BLOOD CHILD, a horror fantasy that combines every parent’s worst nightmare with the Malay myth of…
WEST OF HELL *** USA 2018 Dir: Michael Steves 90 mins Set in the late 1800’s a small group of people board a night train to Atlanta. Ex-slave Jericho Whitfield (Tony Todd) witnessed his daughter get scalped by his last master and is now on a killing spree to murder…