ABRUPTIO **** USA 2023 Dir: Evan Marlowe. 109 mins Refreshing takes on similar tropes that have been done to undeath are quite rare. The horror genre is seeing this in some film work such as Piggy (2022) or dare I suggest Pearl (2022) and Barbarian (2022). Evan Marlowe’s labour of…
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HellBent Pictures is excited to announce the long anticipated screening of Evan Marlowe’s life-sized puppet horror Abruptio at Cinejoy, the virtual version of Silicon Valley’s Cinequest. Comedy, mystery, blood, A-List voices, action, and puppets combine in the first-of-its-kind surrealistic horror/thriller. Abruptio features the voice talents of James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Hana Mae Lee…
HANUKKAH * USA 2019 Dir: Eben McGarr. 106 mins A Jewish slasher movie modelled partly on IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA with straight-from-the-horror-convention casting and composer Harry Manfredini and stunt co-ordinator Kane Hodder among the credits. It opens with a long-haired, cadaverous Sid Haig as a notorious serial killer who…
HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES **** USA 2003 Dir: Rob Zombie. 88 mins Cut by the MPAA and dropped by Universal, Zombie’s feature debut was completed in 2000 but didn’t emerge until 2003 when, pre-empting the post-SAW wave of nihilistic American horror, it was joined by a bunch of genre…
From producer Felissa Rose (fan favourite star of Sleepaway Camp) and written and directed by Eben McGarr comes HANUKKAH on DVD and Blu-ray, the film that Josh Weiss of Forbes.com called “…an outrageously violent horror movie that pays homage to graphic 80’s cinema with a Hebraic twist and a seemingly…