THE LIGHTSABER MAKER *** Canada 2018 Dir: Jeremy Brown. 11 mins Writer-director Jeremy Brown’s short film is engagingly played in talking head documentary style by Scott Patey, cast as the marvellously named Valin Horn. Son of a famous jedi, he claims to have been frozen in carbonite, waking up with…
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SCHISM **** New Zealand / Canada / USA 2019 Dir: Johnny Hall, Andrew Todd. 4 mins Made as part of Auckland’s 48 Hours film competition 2019, this avant-garde, visceral psychological horror has an oppressive, disturbing ambience reinforced by co-writer-director Andrew Todd’s abrasive, frenetic electronic soundscape and the suitably grim black…
MAKE ME A SANDWICH **** Canada 2019 Dir: Peter Hatch. 3 mins Here’s a stripped-down vision of domestic hell from Toronto’s wonderfully named Deformed Lunchbox horror filmmaking collective. It has a monstrous performance from Peter Hodgins and it’s his relentless grouchy plea of “Where’s my sandwich?” that establishes his demanding…
Arrow Video have revealed the official poster for the dead funny apocalyptic zom-com ZOMBIE FOR SALE – designed by artist Scott Saslow. Synopsis: Korea’s biggest pharmaceutical company conducts illegal experiments on humans. One test goes wrong and creates a sexy zombie who escapes and winds up with the…
GRAVE SIGHT *** Canada 2019 Dir: Walter Forsyth, Angus Swantee. 7 mins This Canadian horror comedy is not especially slick but has fun with its EC Comics-by-way-of-Sam-Raimi set up. In a daylit graveyard opening, Holly Stevens and Craig Gunn brave an exhumation to steal family jewels from a desiccated corpse.…