MAD GENIUS (a.k.a. Mindhack: #savetheworld) *** USA 2017 Dir: Royce Gorsuch 90 mins Hacker, Eco warrior and YouTube sensation Mr. Vix otherwise known as Mason goes on a one man crusade to reprogram the human brain. Well, he’s not completely on his own. In a previous attempt/experiment Mason accidentally conjured…
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SOFT MATTER *** USA 2018 Dir: Jim Hickcox 72 mins Two scientists have holed up in an abandoned hospice using the last of its dying residents to conduct experiments in immortality by splicing them with aquatic creatures such as lobsters, jellyfish and octopus. These experiments have angered the Goddess of…
For fans of Ozploitation it is the likes of MAD MAX (1980) or even the trash-tastic TURKEY SHOOT (1982) that may first pop into many a horror hound’s mind – however, the cycle offered so much more and never is this clearer than with the surrealist shocks of HARLEQUIN (1980)…
THE MEG *** USA / China 2018 Dir: Jon Turteltaub. 113 mins Steve Alten’s best selling Peter Benchley-influenced monster-shark novel MEG (1997) is so old that it’s already had multiple paperback sequels and helped spawn two decades worth of cheap megalodon movies, from SHARK ATTACK 3 (which has the greatest…
GRAY MATTER *** Canada 2018 Dir: Greg A. Sager 85 mins Starting off in the 1960’s with a group of young lads flicking through a bunch of stolen titty mags. They are rudely interrupted by a meteorite crashing through their tree house which makes them local news stars. Flash forward…