ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK ***** USA 1981 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Carpenter’s hugely influential dystopian sci-fi movie indulged his adoration of antiheroes and life-long disdain for authority, while taking the crime-ridden, pre-Giuliani state of New York City (already the subject of various vigilante movies) to its natural extreme. The…
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THE UNSEEN *** USA 2016 Dir: Geoff Redknap. 106 mins Aden Young is a hard-working, hard-drinking timber mill worker in this sombre take on a familiar genre theme. He has been estranged from his now-17-year-old daughter for the last eight years while haunted by past glories as a prominent professional…
BEYOND THE SKY *** USA 2018 Dir: Fulvio Sestito. 82 mins The recent wave of alien abduction films incorporating a found-footage / mockumentary element stretches back to theatrical releases like THE FOURTH KIND (2009), though this movie nods to the memorably harrowing FIRE IN THE SKY (1993) in its subject…
Mandao Films has recently announced their screening MANDAO OF THE DEAD at the Comic Con International Film Festival 2019. The festival is part of the San Diego Comic Con. “Mandao of the Dead is a true indie horror with colorful, wildly quirky characters […] sure to be a cult favorite” -…
THE SHIPMENT **** Canada 2018 Dir: Bobby Bala. 27 mins Ambition is not lacking in writer-director Bobby Bala’s Canadian short: the dialogue-free first five minutes begins with a breath-taking establishing shot worthy of a big budget major studio spectacular. It never quite tops this initial transition, but does establish its…