THE BEACH HOUSE **** USA 2019 Dir: Jeffrey A. Brown. 87 mins In 2020, we probably don’t need reminders of how fragile our existence is on Planet Earth, but the job of the horror genre, and specifically of writer-director Jeffrey A Brown’s feature debut, is to reinforce it anyway. A…
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YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH **** Spain 2019 Dir: Marc Martinez Jordan. 13 mins Shot in Academy ratio, this is an arresting, original, label-defying short film from the talented writer-director of the well-liked technophobic horror feature FRAMED (2017). The set-up is wonderfully offbeat : a young man (Enric Auquer) dressed…
10 of horror’s hottest rising filmmakers unite to tell 8 terrifying tales. A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio, is a new anthology from brothers Luciano Onetti and Nicolas Onetti. Joining the Onettis are filmmakers Sergio Morcillo, Joshua Long, Jason Bognacki, Adam O´Brien, Matt Richards, A.J. Briones, Pablo S. Pastor and…
HOST ***** UK 2020 Dir: Rob Savage. 57 mins Rob Savage, director of the eerily effective “Ghost in the Wall” episode of 2018 anthology TRUE HORROR, makes a virtue of his own legally enforced restrictions with his Shudder movie HOST. It was shot during the national UK Coronavirus lockdown of…
AGRAMON’S GATE *** U.S.A. 2019 Dir: Harley Wallen. 110 mins During a séance a group of people are haunted by a demonic force in the guise of a shape-shifting spirit that is intent on killing those that awoke him from his slumber from the other side. The séance members and…