DEATH RANCH **** UK 2020 Dir: Charlie Steeds. 78 mins Set in Tennessee USA in the 1970’s, African American Brandon Cobbs (Deiandre Teagle) escapes from jail and meets up with siblings Clarence (Travis Cutner) and Angie (Faith Monique). All three take refuge in the old family farm, now abandoned, til…
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12 HOUR SHIFT **** USA 2020 Dir: Brea Grant. 83 mins Drug addicted nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) and work colleague Karen (Nikea Gamby-Turner) have a small business on the side providing organs for trafficking on the black market. Mandy’s cousin (by marriage) Regina is the person that picks up the…
TRIGGERED **** South Africa 2020 Dir: Alastair Orr. 90 mins South African filmmaker Alastair Orr, whose earlier genre films – notably FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (2016) – never quite hung together, nails it with TRIGGERED, a sharp-witted, intense riff on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME retooled with an ensemble…
GILTRUDE’S DWELLING **** Canada 2019 Dir: Jeremy Lutter. 15 mins Teenage orphan Giltrude (the excellent Kennedi Clements) lives in a house on a mountain from which she has never left. Her parents (Jesse Hutch, Priscilla Faia) go out at night on mysterious missions while reminding her that the house itself…
ALONE **** USA 2020 Dir: John Hyams. 98 mins An American remake of the Swedish thriller GONE from the same screenwriter, Mattias Olsson, this stripped-down cat-and-mouse thriller treads on highly familiar ground but does so in a fashion that feels unusually authentic while sustaining the suspense from start to finish.…