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Extreme Cinema – Nekromantik 2

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Nekromantik 2, 1991. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Monika M., Mark Reeder, Lena Braun, Beatrice Manowski and Lene Braun. SYNOPSIS: A young attractive nurse is torn between her love for her new boyfriend and her desire for the remains of the corpse she keeps in her apartment. In director Jörg Buttgereit’s follow-up to his controversial 1987 film, […]

Movie Review – Bad Candy (2020)

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Bad Candy, 2020. Directed by Scott B. Hansen & Desiree Connell. Starring Zach Galligan, Corey Taylor, Derek Russo, Audrey Williams, Bill Pacer, Wayne, Kenneth Trujillo. SYNOPSIS: A late-night radio DJ and his producer tell some spooky stories on their Halloween show. The Halloween anthology movie has become something of a ‘thing’ over the past few […]

Movie Review – Gaia (2021)

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Gaia, 2021. Directed by Jaco Bouwer. Starring Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Alex van Dyk, and Anthony Oseyemi. SYNOPSIS: An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists whose devotion to the forest has nightmarish consequences. One of the stranger movies to have been screened at this year’s FrightFest, South African […]

Movie Review – Claw (2021)

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Claw, 2021. Directed by Gerald Rascionato. Starring Chynna Walker, Richard Rennie, Mel Mede, and Ken Mertz.   SYNOPSIS: Two friends get trapped inside a remote desert ghost town with a deadly velociraptor on the loose. As if the prospect of another impending Jurassic World movie, in which a billionaire (probably) opens another park with more […]

Movie Review – Wired Shut (2021)

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Wired Shut, 2021. Directed by Alexander Sharp. Starring Natalie Sharp, Blake Stadel, and Behtash Fazlali. SYNOPSIS: A writer with his jaw wired shut is visited by his estranged daughter, and his life is immediately put in danger. Some movies should come with a warning that the contents stored on the shiny disc inside the box […]

Extreme Cinema – We Are the Flesh

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We Are the Flesh, 2016. Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter. Starring Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Gabino Rodríguez, and María Cid. SYNOPSIS: A pair of homeless siblings takes shelter in an old building where a strange hermit forces them into a world of depravity. “This is not your average party” says Mariano, one of […]

Movie Review – The Reckoning (2020)

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The Reckoning, 2020. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steve Waddington, Joe Anderson, Leon Ockenden, Indianna Ryan, and Mark Ryan. SYNOPSIS: A young widow in the middle ages is accused of being a witch after her husband dies of the plague. The Reckoning is what happens when a genre filmmaker with a […]

Movie Review – The Columnist (2020)

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The Columnist, 2020. Directed by Ivo van Aart. Starring Katja Herbers, Genio de Groot, Rein Hofman, Achraf Koutet and Bram van der Kelen. SYNOPSIS: A newspaper columnist who receives death threats seeks bloody revenge on the internet trolls who make her life a nightmare. “It isn’t hard to be kind” says Femke Boot (Katja Herbers), […]

Blu-ray Review – Host (2020)

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Host, 2020. Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Seylan Baxter and James Swanton. SYNOPSIS: A séance performed via Zoom goes horribly wrong. It was only a matter of time before ‘Lockdown Horror’ became a thing and the first past the post to claim this inevitable […]

Movie Review – Breeder (2020)

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Breeder, 2020. Directed by Jens Dahl. Starring Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Jens Andersen, Signe Egholm Olsen, and Eeva Putro. SYNOPSIS: A ruthless businesswoman kidnaps women and performs experiments on them in order to make paying male customers younger. Danish movie Breeder is a love story where Mia (Sara Hjort Ditlevsen) and her […]