Description from Netflix: Backpackers Rutger and Katarina escape the city for an adventurous vacation in the Australian outback…but their dream trip turns into a nightmare when they run into a bloodthirsty serial killer with a penchant for sadistic games. My thoughts: I love slasher movies. It’s a well-known fact about me. And yet I didn’t […]
Four teens out on the town celebrating a birthday run into the wrong people. Sissy (Ali Faulkner), her brother Mikey (Phillip Wolf) their friend Kenny (Matt Hensarling) and random, token slut Barbie (Tory Tompkins) have a chance encounter at a convenience store that sets off a violent chain of events. In a seedy part of […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBwsUD7jYCI Release date: May 16, 2014 Director: Gareth Edwards (Monsters) This is the first trailer I saw, and it’s still my favorite one. The skydiving scene that opens is amazing. The silence as they drop, and the destruction they see as they break through the clouds. The flashes of anguished faces (Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth […]
Indie filmmaker Peter Dukes has built himeslf quite a treasure trove of short films. As a horror fan, I chose to watch The Beast first. The Beast is an awarad winning horror short that is a throwback to old fashioned horror. Three men go into the woods on the night of a full moon. One […]
So, as any pop culture aficionado knows, this Monday was the 30th anniversary of the date of the detention in The Breakfast Club. Given the fact that that film is my favorite movie of all time, I am always more than willing to pay homage to it. With that thought in mind, I decided to […]
From writer/director Mike Flanagan (Absentia) comes a mind bending supernatural horror film. The story, essentially, boils down to a woman who is hell bent on proving that her father is not guilty of the murder of his wife; it was the antique mirror hanging in his office. Yup, known as the Lasser Glass, it is […]
Award winning Ottawa, Ontario filmmakers, Kristian Lariviere & Jennifer Allanson, have launched a fundraising campaign for their original, women centric feature film debut, HENS NIGHT. HENS NIGHT is a female powered horror comedy centered around a bachelorette party gone wrong. “People always think horror films are a male driven genre, but the reality is that […]
I came across We Are What We Are (Somos Lo Que Hay) this past summer; I found it to be a fascinating, multi layered, beautiful story. What is presented as the story of a family of cannibals is so, so much more. You can take this movie several different ways; you can simply watch […]
In an unusual and rare twist, I am mildly annoyed by a horror remake. We Are What We Are, directed by Jim Mickle (Stake Land), is a remake of the Mexican film of the same name. Now that this film is available on Netflix, Twitter has lit up with conversation about it. It seems to […]
It is Sacrament Saturday here at horror-writers and we will be continuing our coverage by including the film’s trailer in our Trailer Talk segment. First, here is the trailer And now my thoughts: The idea of being trapped in a deeply cultish Religious town is an intriguing one. I’ve sounded off before about […]