HAIL TO THE DEADITES **** Canada 2020 Dir: Steve Villeneuve. 79 mins Director Steve Villeneuve, who made the indie horror love letter documentary UNDER THE SCARES (2010), wears his EVIL DEAD-loving heart on his bloody sleeve with this unashamedly cuddly feature about the fanbase surrounding Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, complete…
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THE WIND **** USA 2018 Dir: Emma Tammi. 86 mins No one says a word for the first few, haunting minutes of Emma Tammi’s atmospheric feature debut. The audience is afforded glimpses of a stillbirth, a suicide and a sombre burial. A key character asks with muted despair “How did…
BLINDERS **** USA 2020 Dir: Tyler Savage. 86 mins After a messy breakup, Andy (Vincent Van Horn), leaves everything and everyone he knows, to move to Los Angeles, taking with him his beloved dog Juicebox (cool name!) Whilst having a well needed drink after his journey, he befriends a pretty…
Genre veteran Tyler Savage (Inheritance) has announced the world premiere of his latest feature, BLINDERS, at Arrow Video FrightFest Digital Edition 2020. The increasingly creepy film follows a lonely transplant to the City of Angels who forms a dangerous friendship with a rideshare driver. BLINDERS will world premiere during FrightFest…
A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL **** Germany 2019 Dir: Linus de Paoli. 85 mins Adam lld Rohweder is outstanding in the title role as an agoraphobic, highly intelligent student who lives in a “rat cage” apartment and has the appearance and manner of a harmless geek. Something is up…