John and Rae Ingram decided to get away from it all, taking to the sea in their luxury yacht Saracen. Unfortunately for them, they ran afoul of a lack of wind and were becalmed, pretty much stopped at sea. Neither of them was a stranger to such things, and neither of them was terribly put […]
Read more "Poseidon’s On a Mission/About to Turn It Up to Eleven: Charles Williams’ Dead Calm"Kaleb (Théo Christine) visits Ali (Samir Nait), for two reasons: a package pickup as well as looking for an affordable gift for a beloved neighbor who is leaving his building. However, when Ali takes him into the backroom to look at his valuable, possibly smuggled jewelry, Kaleb sees something in addition to a pair of […]
Read more "Arach Attack: Infested (2023)"When Iris Lark (Freya Allan) hears from a solicitor (Ned Dennehy), she is at her wits end. Broke, living on friend Katie’s (Ruby Barker) couch, no job prospects and only a sliver of a dream for school, she’s got nothing to look forward to. But then she learns her dad Owen (Peter Mullan) has died […]
Read more "She Waits Below: Baghead (2023)"After Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992), there is a big old gap before the next film (1997’s Alien: Resurrection) takes place. It’s an area rife with possibilities for storytelling, akin to the gap between the events of A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) in Star Wars Continuity. Author T. R. […]
Read more "I Prefer the Term “Artificial Person,” Myself: T. R. Napper’s Aliens: Bishop"Before the WNUF Halloween Special (2013), Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014), and What Happens Next Will Scare You (2020), writer/director Chris LaMartina helmed a few other flicks, including shorts and feature films. The 2010 slasher flick, President’s Day, has just found a new life thanks to the recent Blu-ray release via the Terror Vision label, […]
Read more "Helluva Craft: Witch’s Brew (2011)"Lana Rubicon is a strong, independent woman, used to heading multimillion dollar construction projects and land deals. So, when she’s diagnosed with brain cancer, she assumes the surgical method will remove the issue and she will be back in action in a matter of weeks. Six weeks tops. Her daughter Beth is less optimistic, but […]
Read more "Three Generations of Crime(solvers): Nina Simon’s Mother-Daughter Murder Night"A team of six professionals undertake a mission to kidnap a young girl (codenamed Tiny Dancer) from her fancy house and then babysit her for 24 hours. By then, her rich daddy should have coughed up $50 million for her safe return. None of the crooks knows one another, each has a given name taken […]
Read more "Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer … You Had a Busy Day Today: Abigail (2024)"The journalists of online site Click Clique have ostensibly assembled on the evening of October 28 to pitch their picks for the scariest viral videos. However, editor-in-chief June (Kalima Young) has divulged a truth to her top reporter, Rachel Silver (Melissa LaMartina). The site is going to have to downsize because the click-through revenue streams […]
Read more "Clickbait: What Happens Next Will Scare You"When Estela lost her parents in a freak, unexplained accident aboard a New York subway, she was thrown into a system that pretended to care, but was ultimately powerless to do anything to help her. She was an undocumented immigrant, after all, because her father apparently never filed the proper paperwork to change their status. […]
Read more "No Hay Luz En Oscuro: Romina Garber’s Castle of the Cursed"Five occupants of a train’s coach find themselves drawn into a bit of storytelling and fortune telling by the sixth, an eerie but sociable gentleman calling himself Dr. Schreck (Peter Cushing), whose name he explains, is German for Terror. Using a pack of tarot cards, Dr. Schreck offers to reveal a possible, supernatural future as […]
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