DARKEST DAY *** U.K. 2015 Director: Dan Rickard 90 mins If you were to insert the word “Later” after the title of this film then I would not hold it against you, as the similarities to Danny Boyles 28 Days Later are glaringly obvious right from the start. I am…
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THE RAKING ** USA 2017 Dir: Bryan Brewer. 97 mins Co-writer / director / star Bryan Brewer’s movie sounds like a garden tool-based slasher flick from the title, but it’s actually a straight-forward monster movie inspired by the internet “creepypasta” urban legend. A standard-issue geek, angry goth stereotype and an…
CAPTURE KILL RELEASE **** Canada 2016 Dir: Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart 96 mins A young married couple video record their dark desire of killing a human being and keeping the recordings for posterity. The female of the couple starts off the chat as a sick innocent joke about killing…
GETTING SCHOOLED ** USA 2017 Dir: Chuck Norfolk. 83 mins This slasher movie riff on THE BREAKFAST CLUB sets up five American high school archetypes for potential slaughter. There’s a stroppy airhead (Morgan Tyler) whose “resting bitch face” is actually just her regular face, a Rubik Cube-loving Vietnamese geek, a…
THE BUTCHER ** U.S.A. 2016 Dir: Emir Skalonja 75 mins Widow Lori is a lonely woman and is pushed back into the dating scene by her gay friend using online dating. After meeting up with a guy at a local bar where they chat about her job as a coroner…