CONVERGENCE *** USA 2015 Dir: Drew Hall 100 mins Set in the year 1999, we follow Detective Ben Walls as he leaves his young family and rushes to the site of a suspected terror attack. On arrival he and his colleague’s sweep the building only to get caught up in…
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THE POSSESSION EXPERIMENT *** USA 2016 Dir: Scott B Hansen 81 mins The enjoyably overwrought tone of this slick addition to the over-saturated possession sub-genre is set by a visceral exorcism opening, in which Priest Bill Moseley battles against a demon-possessed young woman yelling “Fuck me! Fuck me!” before she…
WHISPERS * U.K. 2015 Dir: Tammi Sutton 90 mins Former glamour model Keeley Hazell stars as depressed mother Catherine who lost her child. Now her husband Harvey (Craig Rees) with advice from a therapist takes Catherine to stay in the English countryside in the hope of helping her recuperate. The…
MOM AND DAD **** USA 2017 Dir: Brian Taylor. 86 mins Here’s what you get when one half of the filmmaking duo behind the CRANK movies unleashes an inversion of the concept behind THE CHILDREN: here, an epidemic of ambiguous origin causes parents across America to literally want to kill…
GHOST HOUSE * USA / Thailand 2017 Dir: Rich Ragsdale 89 mins This dated, resolutely unfrightening attempt to jump-start the corpse of early 2000’s J-horror-inspired supernatural horror blows its load in the opening minutes with a brazen ghostly assault on a young woman in an alleyway. Subsequently, unlikeable American couple…