COME TO DADDY **** Canada / New Zealand / Ireland / USA 2019 Dir: Ant Timpson. 93 mins Elijah Wood’s eclectic adult career chalks up another compelling, unsympathetic character in the feature directing debut for well-known producer Ant Timpson (DEATHGASM, TURBO KID); he also co-wrote the script with THE GREASY…
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NEKROTRONIC **** Australia 2018 Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner. 98 mins Another confident, crowd-pleasing comic horror from the director of the well-liked WYRMWOOD (co-written with his brother Tristan), Kiah Roache-Turner’s NEKROTRONIC joins a small cycle of killer app movies. In the words of the film’s engaging early animated exposition, “some evil bastard”…
THE FURIES **** Australia 2019 Dir: Tony D’Aquino. 82 mins An archetypal heavy breathing, scythe-wielding masked killer in the woods pursues a wounded young woman. A second masked maniac appears from nowhere to disembowel the first. From its very first sequence, writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s dynamic 21st century revisionist slasher movie…
MUTANT BLAST **** Portugal / USA 2018 Dir: Fernando Alle. 83 mins Leading a resistance group on the run from the military drones responsible for a disastrous super-soldier project, bad-ass soldier Maria (Maria Leite) releases hulking “test subject” TS-347 from a secret lab at the start of this delightful Troma…
With his previous films, ALMOST HUMAN (2013) and THE MIND’S EYE (2015), filmmaker Joe Begos won the hearts of horror lovers through his stylistic nostalgia and inhibition-free penchant for brutality. Upping the ante, BLISS roars with searing visuals, kinetic energy, an endearing nastiness, and a ferociously all-in lead performance from…