THRESHOLD *** USA 2020 Dirs.: Powell Robinson, Patrick Robert Young. 78 mins The genre of ‘quiet Horror’ is showing up more in film these days. Quiet Horror, being a ‘slow burn’ style of film making that hopefully builds to a payoff. Good film makers can use it to create atmosphere…
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IMPETIGORE **** Indonesia/South Korea 2019 Dir: Joko Anwar. 106 mins A young lady, Maya (Tara Bosro) is working in the city as a toll booth assistant, she is attacked at work by a man she had witnessed stalking her over the course of the day. She is surprised to learn…
DEAD VOICES *** USA 2020 Dir: William Butler. 80 mins This found footage movie begins with a special news bulletin reporting the disappearance of two sisters. Emily (Lauren Albo) and Sara (Angelica Briones) were recording a documentary on Lucas (Jack Buckley), he was Sara’s ex fiance, his team was apparently…
THE FARE **** USA 2018 Dir: D.C. Hamilton. 82 mins Written by lead actress Brinna Kelly and produced by its charismatic star, Gino Anthony Pesi, this joins an elite group of witty, cleverly plotted genre-bending movies set almost entirely in a single car (Eric Red’s black-hearted COHEN AND TATE is…
TURNABOUT * U.S.A. 2016 Dir: E.B. Hughes. 90 mins We open with a troubled man, Billy Cain (George Katt,) who attempts to suicide one night with sleeping pills and throwing himself off a bridge into an icy river. It doesn’t work and, in a desperation, climbs out and reaches a…