Mark Glazer (Joe Balogh) rolls around Virginia Beach in a Winnebago, mirrored sunglasses always scanning the edges of the road looking for pretty, lonesome hitchhikers to pick up. He’s the classic villain who picks up hitchers and then offs them. When the movie opens, he nabs a pretty gal, shows his craziness by flying off […]
Read more "Killer Driver in the Spotlight: Hitcher In The Dark"Synopsis: It’s never easy to say goodbye to a parent, especially when that parent is suffering a long, debilitating disease that renders her pretty much undead in an upstairs bedroom. Such is the case for this family, where a former pop star Mother (Ayu Laksmi) is dying by inches, her husband (Bront Palarae) is trying […]
Read more "Not What It Seems: Satan’s Slaves"Synopsis: As a child in an orphanage, Grace MacDonald (Vicki Schreck) insists that her father is coming for her. During a nightmarish thunderstorm, she ignores the Orphanage Director’s (Nadyne Turney) insistence that this won’t happen and races through the halls, tearing her clothes and ending up a shaking mess. “You don’t have a father.” Soon […]
Read more "God Gives It To You: Dream No Evil"If there’s an inviolable rule to the universe, it’s this: The dead cannot lie when asked direct questions. We may not like the answers they have for us, but those answers will be honest as the dead personality sees it. Jamie Conklin knows this to be the case because, as he recounts from the comfortable […]
Read more "Everyone Has Secrets: Stephen King’s Later"Synopsis: When grad student Richard (Eddie Bowz) decides to put together a workshop at his family’s remote cabin that will give several friends and friends-of-friends license to explore their fears in a safe space, he believes he is wholly prepared to do so. A mannequin called Morty (Erick Weiss) that was once his childhood friend […]
Read more "Tell Me About Your Mother: The Fear"Synopsis: When Libby McClean (Romane Denis) joins CCC (aka the Canadian Cotton Company), a trendy fashion store that sells cruelty free products definitely NOT produced in sweatshops, she is a wide-eyed believer in her menial retail job actually serving the higher goal of making the world a better place. The store manager Craig (Brett Donahue) […]
Read more "Believe, Belong, Belove, Become: Slaxx"Synopsis: Sheri Bennett (Sharon Farrell) and Miles Bennett (Edward Michael Bell) are a couple with the sorts of midlife problems most face. She’s a stay-at-home mom, he’s a professor of physics with a budding quantum entanglement for the mysterious paraphysicist prof Dr. Jeena Kingsly (Chitra Neogy). Their five-year-old adopted daughter Janie (Danielle Brisebois) is the […]
Read more "Anger Is Forever: The Premonition"Gabino Iglesias’ first novel with Broken River Books turned out to be a doozy of a crime novel, following one gangster’s abduction by strange dudes through to his final confrontation with those murderous thugs. All the while, the background hummed with possibly supernatural intervention, making Zero Saints a feast of weirdness and transgression. Coyote Songs, […]
Read more "No End Is Predictable: Gabino Iglesias’ Coyote Songs"Synopsis: Kate (Jasmine Maimone) and her band are looking for a hit. The music they’ve been recording lately for producer Lavinia (Maria Cristina Mastrangeli) is simple product, derivative and uninteresting (in fact, the one studio number we get to hear them recording has distinct connections to a popular Bon Jovi song from the time). They […]
Read more "A Career In the Arts Is Hell: Paganini Horror"Synopsis: A marriage celebration should be one of the happiest days for the village, especially when it is between the good looking, natural leader Kohar (Alan Nuary) and his blushing bride, daughter of the village headman Baedah (Siska Widowati). However, Murni (Suzzanna) is not happy at all. In addition to losing the lover who promised […]
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