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 […]

It’s Not Technically Graverobbing If We Steal From a Trunk In a Ruined Church, Right? Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)

So, six idjits go off to the woods for some drinking, some hunting, some camping, and plenty of bickering. Instead of choosing the familiar path they’ve gone before roguish hothead Mel (Christopher Gummer) suggests taking another way. His pals Bill (Jim Ball) and Wyatt (Steve Sandkuhler) are initially reluctant but give in easy enough. The […]

Anger Management: Primal Rage (1988)

Sam Nash (Patrick Lowe) is a photographer for the local university paper, and he likes taking pics around campus. He’s not terribly hard hitting, so when he tries to convince animal researcher Dr. Ethridge (Bo Svenson) to give him an interview, he gets shot down and pretty much shrugs … only to ask again later […]

Ghoulfriends: Kayla Cottingham’s This Delicious Death

It’s been two years since The Hollowing changed the world, transforming a swath of the world’s population into flesh-eating, rampaging ghouls. However, in that time, things have gotten back to a state of near-normal thanks to the advent of SynFlesh, an artificial protein that quells the hunger. What were once murderous monsters have more or […]

Panic at the Shopping Arcade: Bio-Zombie (1998)

Woody Invincible (Jordan Chan) and Crazy ZomBee (Sam Lee) are a couple of lay abouts, working at a VCD shop at the shopping arcade. Sometimes they bootleg current flicks. They always have opinions on whatever conversation they walk into, they always have swagger to spare; these guys are as tough as Chow Yun Fat (just […]

Let’s Do The Time Warp Again: Bloody New Year

Although it’s still little over a day before we turn the page from 2022 to 2023, this is the last post on Considering Stories for the year. Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s hope the next one is better than the last couple. Today, we will kick away the old year with a quirky science fiction/horror […]

She IS My Mother, Ya Know: Flesh-Eating Mothers

So, there’s this dad, Roddy Douglas (Louis Homyak), who doesn’t have good sex at home with his wife. What’s he do? He visits all the other women on his block. He’s pretty good about having tests done to check for STDs, and his doctor (Allen Rickman, no not that Alan Rickman) assures him he doesn’t […]

Don’t Drink the Water: Pathogen

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 […]

Dead By Dawn: Bryan Smith’s The Last of the Ravagers

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 […]

Blackfoot Bloodhounds, Bitches: All Cheerleaders Die

The Blackfoot High cheerleaders are so out there. They call themselves “bitches” because it’s a gangsta flip for their team. The Bloodhounds call themselves dogs, after all. One of the cheerleaders’ rallying cries is “Blackfoot Bloodhounds, bitches!” Who needs class when you’ve got sass? Anyway, Maddy (Caitlin Stasey) intended to capture the reality of at […]

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