SHARKNADO: FEEDING FRENZY *** USA 2015 Dir: Jeremy Wagener. 78 mins At the peak of its original airing, SHARKNADO was yielding 5000 tweets a minute and, at the time of this documentary’s emergence, the series was already up to its third outing in three years. Even without the hindsight of…
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QUIET COMES THE DAWN (a.k.a. Rassvet / Dawn) ** Russia 2019 Dir: Pavel Sidorov. 98 mins This good looking but conceptually hackneyed Russian horror picture has an arresting prologue: a young pregnant woman drives spectacularly to her doom on a rainy, hallucinatory night. Cut to the 20th birthday party of…
Hunt the Hunters. FEAR premieres on DVD and Digital 15th June from New Era Entertainment. FEAR, directed by Geoff Reisner, is set in the desolate regions of Pacific Northwest where a young family faces a group of bandits who steal the last of their supplies; with time running out, they…
Howl is a dark and twisted reimagining of the classic tale Little Red Riding Hood delivered in true avant-garde style. Against doctors’ advice, Dulcina leaves the sanitarium, and heads through the woods to Grandmother’s house. Soon, she encounters a dark and threatening Wolf, whose very existence forces her to determine…
REUNION *** New Zealand 2020 Dir: Jake Mahaffy. 95 mins The Horror of real life is often as heinous as that conjured up by any vampire, spree killer, rampaging zombie or ghost. Jake Mahaffy’s 2020 film REUNION offers the viewer a world of grief, mental illness, secrets and the horror…