DEATH RANCH **** UK 2020 Dir: Charlie Steeds. 78 mins Set in Tennessee USA in the 1970’s, African American Brandon Cobbs (Deiandre Teagle) escapes from jail and meets up with siblings Clarence (Travis Cutner) and Angie (Faith Monique). All three take refuge in the old family farm, now abandoned, til…
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12 HOUR SHIFT **** USA 2020 Dir: Brea Grant. 83 mins Drug addicted nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) and work colleague Karen (Nikea Gamby-Turner) have a small business on the side providing organs for trafficking on the black market. Mandy’s cousin (by marriage) Regina is the person that picks up the…
TRIGGERED **** South Africa 2020 Dir: Alastair Orr. 90 mins South African filmmaker Alastair Orr, whose earlier genre films – notably FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (2016) – never quite hung together, nails it with TRIGGERED, a sharp-witted, intense riff on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME retooled with an ensemble…
MONSTROUS ** USA 2020 Dir: Bruce Wemple. 86 mins Despite the impressive, looming Sasquatch of this film’s poster – and a 2017-set prologue featuring an unambiguous assault on two female motorists – the “monstrous” in Bruce Wemple’s indie drama turns out to be something quite different. Written by its star,…
THEY REACH *** USA 2020 Dir: Sylas Dall. 87 mins A nostalgia-infused feature debut for writer-director Sylas Dall, whose childhood obsession with VHS horror is apparent from the get-go. In a 1969 prologue, a father and son team come to the aid of a seemingly possessed boy for a “scientific…