With just a week to go until its release, Central City Media has unwrapped a trailer for the holiday horror Nutcracker Massacre. Directed by Rebecca Matthews, the film stars Beatrice Fletcher as Clara, a novelist who heads to her aunt’s secluded house for the Christmas holidays where a life-size Nutcracker doll comes to life, wreaking […]
British action-horror Reign of Chaos gets a trailer and poster
Ahead of its release next week, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the fantasy action horror Reign of Chaos. Directed by Rebecca Matthews and written by FM’s own Tom Jolliffe, the film follows three young women as they try to save mankind from a plague unleashed by the evil lord Chaos; check them […]
Movie Review – The Candy Witch (2020)
The Candy Witch, 2020. Directed by Rebecca Matthews. Starring Jon Callaway, Abi Casson Thompson, Kate Lush, Heather Jackson, Richard D. Myers, Will Stanton, and Hannah Ponting. SYNOPSIS: The Candy Witch seeks vengeance on the wealthy family that wronged her. Independent horror films love to tout an insane concept, accompanied by equally deranged promotional artwork, but […]
A Crazy Year of Writing Straight-to-Video Horror Films
Tom Jolliffe reflects on a crazy year of writing straight to video horror films… There’s a particular go to in cinematic protagonists; a writer. Usually someone psychologically damaged in some way, in desperate search for isolation and peace (which then makes their fragile psyche or situation worse). Stephen King, writer extraordinaire often has writers as […]
Movie Review – Pet Graveyard (2019)
Pet Graveyard, 2019. Directed by Rebecca Matthews. Starring Jessica Otoole, David Cotter, Rita Siddiqui, Claire-Maria Fox, Andrew Hollingworth, and Hattie Willow. SYNOPSIS: The Grim Reaper and his sinister pet torment a group of people after they undergo an experiment that allows them to revisit the dead. Ever wondered what would happen if you mixed the […]
