James Turner gives a quick roundup of Frightfest 2018… The Ranger Okay slasher/comedy film. Had the potential to be wonderfully bizarre but held back. Not a bad watch, but nothing special. Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★ Summer of 84 A definite product of 80’s nostalgia. Clearly rips off […]
The Pseudo-Intellectualism of Gaspar Noé’s Climax
The following is partly a review of Climax and partly an exploration of what makes a film a good piece of cinema… Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Giselle Palmer. SYNOPSIS: A young dance troupe rehearse for an upcoming American tour in a dingy school assembly […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – He’s Out There (2018)
He’s Out There, 2018. Directed by Quinn Lasher. Starring Yvonne Strahovski, Justin Bruening, Abigail Pniowsky, Anna Pniowsky, and Julian Bailey. SYNOPSIS: On holiday at a remote Canadian lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath. For ‘John’ has […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot, 2018. Directed by Robert D. Krzykowski. Starring Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Ron Livingston, Caitlin FitzGerald, and Larry Miller. SYNOPSIS: Decades after ending World War II by assassinating Adolf Hitler in an undercover operation so covert it never existed, unsung American hero Calvin Barr is called upon […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – What Keeps You Alive (2018)
What Keeps You Alive, 2018. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Brittany Allen, Hannah Emily Anderson, Martha MacIsaac, Joey Klein, and Charlotte Lindsay Marron. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives when they find themselves pitted against the most unexpected of adversaries. […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Written and Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Richard Cawthorne, Betty Gabriel, Michael M. Foster, Harrison Gilbertson, and Benedict Hardie. SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – Boar (2018)
Boar, 2018 Directed by Chris Sun. Starring Chris Haywood, Bill Moseley, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt, and Simone Buchanan. SYNOPSIS: In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills […]
Movie Review – Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, 2018. Directed by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund. Starring Thomas Lennon, Michael Paré, Nelson Franklin, Barbara Crampton, Udo Kier, and Jenny Pellicer. SYNOPSIS: Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar (Thomas Lennon) returns to his childhood home to regroup. Finding a nefarious-looking puppet in his deceased brother’s room, he decides to sell […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Incident in a Ghost Land, 2018. Directed by Pascal Laugier. Starring Crystal Reed, Anastasia Phillips, Emilia Jones, Taylor Hickson, and Mylène Farmer. SYNOPSIS: Pauline (French pop icon Mylène Farmer) and her two daughters Beth and Vera inherit a house in the countryside. On the first night in their new home the family are confronted by […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – The Ranger (2018)
The Ranger, 2018. Directed by Jenn Wexler. Starring Chloe Levine, Jeremy Holm, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, and Larry Fessenden. SYNOPSIS: It’s the 1980s and a group of punks get busted selling drugs. Because a police officer gets fatally wounded in the showdown, Chelsea offers up her uncle’s cabin in a nearby national park as a […]
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