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 […]
Read more "Because the Night Belongs to Us: You’ll Never Find Me (2023)"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"When Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) comes to Rome to finish her apprenticeship at a nun-run orphanage and move into finally taking her own vows and joining the brides of Christ, she is understandably thrilled. This will be the culmination of the hard work she has been doing thus far and it will lead to good […]
Read more "The Miracle of Life Is Messy: The First Omen (2024)"Alexandra Parkman (Christine Moore) is carrying around quite a bit of bad baggage, thanks to her creepy abusive dad. He’s gone, now, and she’s a grown woman, but she can’t stomach the idea of being touched, which makes things difficult for her fiancé Bill King (Tim Gail). She’s the head of a shelter for abused […]
Read more "1 Blood Sacrifice = 13 Years of Power: Prime Evil (1988)"When she was young, Cathy (Christine Moore) was terrified of imaginary monsters, which her pathological mother said would “get” her. These spectral beings waited in the stairwell or in the walls of her bedroom, emerging after dark to gaze upon her, to murmur or wail, to reach for her. Nightmarish situation, but not as much […]
Read more "You Shouldn’t Go Home Again: The Lurkers (1987)"When Madison (Emily Tennant) came to the most beautiful place in the world, she was surprisingly lonely. Sure, she had a social media presence, sure she had video chats with her bestie Jay (Justin Sams), but Ryan (Rory J. Saper), the boyfriend she was supposed to come with … had things come up that kept […]
Read more "No One Will Come Looking For You: Influencer (2022)"Gina (Diana Karanikas) is haunted by nightmares. Many of them involve her little sister Brooke (Ilene B. Singer) leading a group of her friends to perform the suicidal pact Gina has sung about in her edgy rock music. Others involve her own friends and bandmates getting skewered by a mystery killer. When Brooke’s suicide attempts […]
Read more "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Soul … Or Not: Dead Girls (1990)"Valeria (Natalia Solián) and Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) are finally taking the next step in their relationship, and the good news is they’re expecting. Cells that will eventually make the leap into a little girl are even now growing inside of the mother, and the changes that come with this are arriving as expected. Morning sickness, […]
Read more "Nightmare Pregnancy: Huesera: The Bone Woman"On the bleak Welsch countryside, a woman is fished out of the sea, near to drowning, possibly from suicide. She is soon transported to a clinic for help. However, the help she receives is rather unhelpful. What follows is a series of moments, scenes, skits, and sketches that vary from the utterly absurd to the […]
Read more "Knock & Wait: The Other Side of the Underneath"When he was a young man, Patrick (Robert Thompson) had enough of his mother (Carole-Anne Aylett) and her lover (Paul Young) teasing him. So he tossed an electric heater into their shared bathtub. Years later, Patrick is a comatose patient at a clinic, staring endlessly at the walls. Dr. Roget (Robert Helpmann) believes he is […]
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