Because the Night Belongs to Us: You’ll Never Find Me (2023)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful … The strangest storm to hit this particular Australian trailer park in a while has arrived, bringing booming thunder and brilliant flashes of lightning. It’s 2AM and Patrick (Brendon Rock) is still up and awake, listening to the radio playing “Sleepwalk” and waiting for something, trying to figure something […]

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here: Dante’s Inferno (1911)

To climb a mountain that leads to paradise, Dante Alighieri (Salvaore Papa) must first descend into the Inferno at its foot. When his way is blocked by three hideous beasts, the beatific Beatrice request pious poet Virgil (Arturo Pirovano) guide the still living mortal on his journey, and Virgil agrees, descending from Paradise just when […]

A Violent Creation: Baby Blood

When Lohman’s circus acquires a jaguar, they don’t realize it’s carrying something unexpected inside of it. They only realize that the new cat is reacting strongly to the lion tamer’s assistant Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) and that jittery quality is passing to all the cats in the show. The cause will soon be revealed … but […]

A Strange Incident in the Arizona Desert: Phase IV (1974)

When a celestial event captivates the world, it leads to scientific curiosity as well as prognostications of doom and despair. However, it passes without much incident, as such events do, and the public interest moves along. However, it has left its influence upon the earthlings. Not on human beings, but on something much smaller. A […]

A Person Gets Her Heart Set on a Certain Thing: The House of Yes (1997)

On Thanksgiving night in 1983, in the midst of a hurricane, the estranged son Marty (Josh Hamilton) is coming home. No one is happier about this than his fraternal twin sister, Jackie-O (Parker Posey), until she learns that he is bringing a friend. Younger brother Anthony (Freddie Prinze Jr.) was the one to speak with […]

A Second Helping of Crazy: Santet 2 (1989)

After surviving an encounter with the queen of black magic (thanks to timely intervention of a Muslim cleric), Katemi (Suzzanna) renounced her black magic ways and decided to live in peace with the village. Unfortunately for her, the teacher of her blasphemous mentor arrives with a demand for Katemi to resume practicing the dark arts. […]

Calling Up What Cannot Be Put Down: The Church (1989)

In the days of the Teutonic Knights (around the year 1000 C.E./A.D.), a gang of afflicted, demonic disease bearing infidels were put to the sword. Before evil energies could resurrect the bodies and seek revenge, a priest (Enrico Osterman) demanded that the mass grave be covered and consecrated. Later, a church would be erected on […]

A Christmassy Christmas Time (With Ghouls): Anna and the Apocalypse

Anna Shepherd (Ella Hunt) has big plans for when she’s done with school. She wants to see the world, take some time off for herself. Her bestie John (Malcolm Cumming) knows about and supports these plans … sort of. He’s smitten, but his affection is unnoticed and therefore unrequited. They’re still a bit off, of […]

Everyone Who Lives There Is Lost: Nowhere (1997)

Dark’s (James Duvall) life is one perched on the verge of apocalypse. He is ostensibly in high school, but he never actually goes during daylight hours. Ostensibly working on a video project documenting something he loves, he is really just using it to capture his girlfriend Mel (Rachel True) on camera doing her thing. That […]

Do Better Police Work: The Wolf of Snow Hollow

It starts with a couple of tourists coming to town, renting a place, enjoying themselves. Before their first night is done, Brianne Paulson (Annie Hamilton) is butchered and her boyfriend PJ Palfrey (Jimmy Tatro) is devastated. What could have done it? A wild animal, maybe. But wild animals do not specifically carve out a victim’s […]

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