MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT *** USA 2018 Dir: Christopher Ray 91 mins On New Years Eve, seven friends/work colleagues head off to a remote lodge in the woods to see in the new year. Meanwhile a guy searching for his missing brother and fiance comes across the friends just as they are…
Browsing: Uncork’d Entertainment
Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to ST. AGATHA, the latest film from celebrated filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III, IV,). The female-driven psychological horror film premiered at the Overlook Film Festival in April. Written by Andy Demetrio, Shaun Fletcher, Sara Sometti Michaels, and Clint Sears. ST.…
EUTHANIZER **** Finland 2017 Dir: Teemu Nikki. 85 mins Matti Onnismaa quietly crafts a truly memorable character in Finnish writer-director Teemu Nikki’s grimly funny character study of what Paul Schrader might call “God’s Lonely Man”. Onnismaa is a pipe-smoking loner, mocked by some as a “dog whisperer”, who euthanizes sick…
Filmed in Northern California, DEATH KISS stars Robert Kovacs (who has gained attention for his uncanny resemblance to well-known action star Charles Bronson), Daniel Baldwin (JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES), Richard Tyson (KINDERGARTEN COP, TWO MOON JUNCTION), Eva Hamilton (horror fest fave RUIN ME), Stormi Maya, Leia Perez, Reese Austyn, and Sam…
THE GRAND SON (a.k.a. American Pets) *** USA 2018 Dir: Robert Logevall. 86 mins This cynical black comedy played the festival circuit in a slightly shorter, 78 minute version under the title AMERICAN PETS, though it’s hard to see how such an abbreviated running time would help a movie that…