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The Dark and the Wicked begins with a woman (actress Julie Oliver-Touchstone) living on an isolated farm in a nondescript, rural area, with her dying, bedridden husband (Michael Zagst). The son (Michael Abbott Jr.) and daughter (Marin Ireland) return for their father’s impending death and… Continue reading
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Back in 1999, director Eduardo Sánchez took the horror world by storm, giving us not the first found-footage film, but certainly one that changed everything–The Blair Witch Project. Ten years later, in 2011, Sanchez returned as… Continue reading
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I am always a little bothered in the end, when I learn that the title of a movie has nothing to do with the movie. The Pact is just such a film that had me… Continue reading
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With real-life horrors of COVID19 and their lingering effects, can movies about pandemics ever be novel again? (No pun intended.) Hitting too close to home for many, with too much… Continue reading
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I always hate to see a great actor in a bad movie–a movie so lame and hopeless that it offers no opportunity for the great actor to even make the bad movie any better. The Blood Lands is… Continue reading
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BackyardFilms is excited to announce the upcoming sequel(s) to their 2015 breakout horror feature, CRAWL or DIE (written and directed by acclaimed Indie director, Oklahoma Ward), starring actress and singer, Nicole Alonso… Continue reading
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Hallucinations in movies are rarely done right. If done correctly, visual hallucinations should be cowitnessed by the audience, only when the affected character is also looking in the direction of the hallucination. If the audience sees an objective view that the affected person… Continue reading
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Some of the most disturbing moments in life are those when your spouse is having a moody reaction to something and you don’t know why. He/she isn’t acting “normal,” and what the hell could it be? “Is it something I… Continue reading
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Most movies that attempt meshing imagination with reality fail miserably. For most, the routes taken to connect and disconnect the two are paved with confusion and inconsistency; in the end… Continue reading
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Acting on a tip from a friend about a movie called Head Count, I do a quick check on VUDU . What luck! It’s in the selection of films currently “Free with Ads.” The featured poster, showing two teenagers in… Continue reading
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It is almost amazing that a movie about warring conservatives and liberals would be made during such volatile political times. Perhaps now, as things are worse than ever, such a movie wouldn’t be made; perhaps a bit earlier was just… Continue reading
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Within the walls of the mind are hopefully buried the worst of our experiences, our guilt, and our fears. Hopefully, they will remain forever hidden… Continue reading
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Years ago, at a local Half Price bookstore, while looking through a vat of $2.00 DVDs (the ones they really want to get rid of), I happened upon a movie called Shadow Puppets. From the title alone, I thought it… Continue reading
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Grace (Riley Keough) is the only survivor of a mass cult suicide she witnessed as a child, nearly twenty years earlier. She has recovered from her trauma, only with medication, time, and protection from memories. But, trouble is brewing again… Continue reading
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I recently attended the Flyover Film Festival in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. This year’s festival featured six films, all helmed by female directors, with all films accepted based on their quality and a required connection to Kentucky. (Yes! This year… Continue reading
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Just as incest, abuse and abandonment are real-world horrors, so is Julia 17–a surreal, stream-of-consciousness mind trip, where images and events flow as dreams, or sometimes as nightmares. But, Julia’s nightmares… Continue reading
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Is the sound of peeling a tangerine like the sound of peeling flesh from a body? Does the fascia beneath release its dermal layer, as a fruity metaphor, resisting hopelessly, succumbing soon enough? Continue reading
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Tony (written and directed by Gerard Johnson) is a movie exactly about what it is sometimes subtitled–a “London Serial Killer”–ironically, far from the banality implied. As the tagline says, “It’s always the quiet ones.” Yes! If ever there was a … Continue reading
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I always love a good found-footage horror film. However, finding a good one is not so easy these days. Since the first mainstream example in the genre–The Blair Witch Project in 1999–such a film with anything original and different to … Continue reading
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Enter Nowhere (the supernatural thriller/mystery from director Jack Heller) is the story of three people who find themselves lost in the same unknown place, in a wooded area, near a ramshackle cabin in the woods. Every attempt to escape the … Continue reading
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Thirty Proof Coil (from writer/director Will Schmeckpeper) begins with a foreboding fish in a bowl, cutting to close-ups of a woman’s bare feet, as she scurries from room to room in a house. Blue jean shorts and a midriff-baring top … Continue reading
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Wouldn’t you love to have some company for the holidays? Wouldn’t you like to receive the perfect gift from your special someone? Wait! Before you say yes, turn on your brain and think. Who is it? How long have you … Continue reading