When a bumbling janitor (C. Robert Cargill) tries to cover up an accident at a local nanotechnology company, he accidentally unleashes a lethal pathogen into the water supply. This nanochip can replicate, and although it was designed to save lives it actually sickens its hosts, reanimates them once they expire, and ultimately draws out hidden […]
Read more "Don’t Drink the Water: Pathogen"Kurt (Xai) longs to escape this small city nightmare, take off and go live as a drag queen star of the stage in a good sized city with bestie Katie (Erin Paterson). Sadly, getting through the day-to-day slog involves dodging homophobic bullies on the street, homophobic bitches in high school (led by Molly Ferguson’s Luanne), […]
Read more "Dude, Bloodthirsty Predators Suck: So Vam"The town of Snakebite, Arizona is about to face an unprecedented night of terror and dark magic. A fiend called Doyle has set his sights on the town, and his army of blue-skinned creatures are on the move, closing the town off. Bounty hunter Russ Harper is the first to encounter them and escape with […]
Read more "Dead By Dawn: Bryan Smith’s The Last of the Ravagers"Seemingly no different than any other man working on a chain gang pounding rocks in a quarry, Gary Hamilton (Klaus Kinski) is the only one to receive word that he’s been pardoned for his crimes. Afterward, he heads on home again to meet up with the man who crossed him years before. Along the way, […]
Read more "Yearning for Vengeance: And God Said to Cain"What’s a thriller writer to do when a film adaptation of your work ends up glorifying the violence and depravity that your book never did? Well, you write another book, of course. Brian Garfield’s Death Wish is a psychological character study about a man who is left hollowed out by tragedy, who looks for meaning […]
Read more "Hunting Again: Brian Garfield’s Death Sentence"Will Singelton (J. Gregory Smith) is a gaming-obsessed guard and technician at a cutting edge VR prison designed by the impossibly wealthy and charismatic R. D. Crowley (Robert Davi). Will is seeing a frosty ice maiden Tory (Susan Misner) and a virtual sex toy girl (Amy Lynn Baxter) when his real life galpal is away. […]
Read more "The Most Dangerous (Virtual) Game: Cyber Vengeance"Wes (Ryan Kwanten) has been driving for too damned long. He’s falling asleep behind the wheel, so when he spies a rest area he pulls off. It’s a remote spot where only Sharon (Tordy Clark), a tow-truck driver is hanging out. He can’t get the vending machine to dispense a sugar fix, but she can. […]
Read more "Toilet Philosophy: Glorious"Eleven-year-old Billy Coburn and his family were just one of three families heading west in a wagon train. The town of Harvest Home is experiencing a gold rush and seemed a good place to start anew, so his folks banded together with the Shumakers and the McCrays, got themselves a pair of native guides (Ahote […]
Read more "Feeling a Mite Peckish: The Dead and the Devoured"A brutal train robbery turns vicious when Billy Kane (Venantino Venantini) and his united gangs of bandits take all valuables and butcher everyone they find. When it comes to the final car, however, someone on board executes the robbers with precise pistol fire: one shot, one kill. It’s a professional sharpshooter’s talent, and Billy knows […]
Read more "Killers: Bandidos"Michael Paul Dunstan is performing the daily drudgery of his day job, buying music for the bookstore Texts when his dimly recalled past catches up to him. When he was a child, Paul’s parents died in an auto wreck and he went to live with the Staveley family, music teachers and enthusiasts. Until that family’s […]
Read more "Sing. Sing a Song. Sing Out Loud. Sing Out Strong: Ramsey Campbell’s Fellstones"
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