THE HOLE IN THE GROUND **** Ireland / Belgium / Finland 2019 Dir: Lee Cronin. 90 mins Co-writer / director Lee Cronin’s modest, absorbing film joins a cycle of recent evil kid movies (PET SEMATARY, BRIGHTBURN, THE PRODIGY) and also a mini wave of doppelganger / changeling pictures (LOOK AWAY,…
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THE WRETCHED ***** USA 2019 Dirs: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce. 95 mins Ben (John-Paul Howard), a teenaged kid dealing with his parents’ separation, becomes suspicious of his next door neighbours’ odd behavior. Him and his friend Mallory (Piper Curda) get thrown into life-or-death struggle with a centuries-old witch (Madelynn…
Orange Is The New Black’s Taylor Schilling makes her horror debut facing a mother’s worst nightmare to save her family from the evil within. From horror rising stars Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact), Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary), and the producer of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, brace yourself for one of…
Something nasty is lurking in the forest in what might be the most frightening film of the year THE HOLE IN THE GROUND, a nerve-jangling mix of The Witch and Hereditary. A bold and brilliantly constructed cross between Pet Sematary and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the debut feature from…
HELL FEST *** USA 2018 Dir: Gregory Plotkin. 89 mins The biggest shock incurred by watching HELL FEST is the credit for six writers: we presume that one was in charge of working through the “Horror Movie By Numbers” craft kit while the other five spent half an hour typing…