While still a little girl Madeleine (Pamela Pethö-Galantai) met a deranged older man in the park who assaulted her and robbed her not only of her innocence but her voice. As a mute adult, Madeleine (Christina Lindberg) lived an idyllic life on her family’s farm until the day she missed her bus to town. That […]
Read more "Penetrative Acts: Thriller: A Cruel Picture"When the second novella in this trio by Nnedi Okorafor ended, it did so with a cliffhanger. Binti came home, discovered some stresses with her family and Himba people, found out that the “savage” desert dwelling tribes had more connections to her far flung adventures than she could ever imagine, and while she was with […]
Read more "What Would Be Would Be and Sometimes You Wait To See: Binti: The Night Masquerade"From Prohibition through World War II, America could count on Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) to come to our aid when we needed him most. A congressional committee screwed that up, however, and railroaded our hero out of his job. Disillusioned, Captain Invincible dropped off the map allowing secret baddy Mister Midnight (Christopher Lee) to move […]
Read more "Into the Blue: The Return of Captain Invincible"There’s a killer stalking Los Angeles. Detective Lou Capell (David Moses) is having the devil’s own time identifying and capturing the fiend, so he brings in quirky retired detective turned novelist Ted Lonergan (John Stinson) for a bit of much needed help. Police Chief Dennis Warren (Walker Edmiston) hates Ted, hates the idea of involving […]
Read more "Beware the Mutant: Scared to Death"Everyone in the nearby small town believes Betriek’s family to be curse, and why not? When Betriek (Sallie Harmsen) was just a child, someone butchered her grandmother while she was locked inside the pantry. Years later, her husband died too young. Her daughter Hanna (Noor van der Velden) is pretty well adapted, but the rest […]
Read more "From a Whisper to a Scream: Moloch"Three men are selected for their fighting prowess to become the nucleus of a new assassin society. However, before Dragon Lady Madame Lee (Mari Honjo) can properly vet the White Death Machine (Ronald L. Marchini), the Asian Death Machine (Michael Chong), and the Black Death Machine (Joshua Johnson), her mysterious boss wants a real world […]
Read more "They Absolutely Will Not Stop Until You Are Dead: Death Machines"Quentin Sergenov has had a rough life. He’s a child abuse survivor. He managed to pull himself up by the bootstraps, left his UK birthplace behind and became a successful wrestler with the Americans, fighting with the infamous Backbreaker Championship Wrestling Federation (BCWF). However, after being outed as gay in a sport that caters to […]
Read more "Duckie Ought to Win: Preston Fassel’s The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov"Tim Ochopee (Chris Robinson) has self-isolated from his Seminole tribe as well as the white folks of nearby Miami, Florida. He lives in a shack out in the Everglades with a shit ton of domesticated snakes. He comes to town when he needs money, selling snake venom to the local clinic to help them manufacture […]
Read more "Dude, Mankind Sucks: Stanley"Class brain Vernon Potts (Pat Cardi) doesn’t have many friends. A guinea pig by the name of Mr. Mumps and a class cutie by the name of Robin Jones (Rosie Holotik) are about it. However, he sure has a lot of people bringing hell down on him. The janitor Mr. Griggs (Jeff Alexander) and his […]
Read more "Sweet, Sweet Vengeance and Guinea Pigs: Horror High"Soon after her grandmother dies, Tsidi (Chumisa Cosa) and her daughter Winnie (Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya) have to leave their home. The only living conditions option Tsidi will consider is to move in with her mother Mavis (Nosipho Mtebe) in the pristine, white section of Cape Town, South Africa. Mavis was never really there for her […]
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