LISA Lord of Tears, written by Sarah Daly and directed by Lawrie Brewster is a gorgeous Gothic ghost story. James Findlay (Euan Douglas) has just been given the news of his mother’s passing and, consequently, full ownership of his childhood home, a mansion set in the Scottish Highlands which he has only vague and […]
Mamiwata is holding a Film & Photo contest for the next couple of months, giving away prizes up to $1000. Contest entrants have to Film or Photograph aMamiwata “trailer,” get their friends to vote on it, and be original. Voters will decide the 15 finalists for each contest by popular vote. The Mamiwata Team will then choose three […]
Home Sweet Home is one of those rare horror movies that you happen upon on Netflix that you can actually finish watching. I had stumbled upon this film, perhaps a year ago, and something reminded me of it recently. I decided to revisit it and see if it was as good as I had […]
Today we’ll be looking at Oculus. Release date: April 11, 2014 Directed by: Mike Flanagan (Absentia) Notable actors: Karen “Amy Pond” Gillian, Katee “Starbuck” Sackhoff It’s nearly impossible for me to see a trailer involving a mirror and not think about Mirrors or Mirrors 2 (the former being a strange Kiefer Sutherland/Paula Patton vehicle, the […]
Based on true events, Mamiwata is about an American professor and his four students, who travel to the heart of the African jungle in search of Iboga, a potential cure for drug addiction. In the process they unwittingly unleash the wrath of Mamiwata, the African Mermaid who guards the sacred shrub. You can find […]
Welcome back to another installment of the wildly popular Trailer Talk (note: this is not wildly popular). Today we’ll be looking at Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead. This movie appears to pick up immediately after the first movie. The lone survivor (Martin) is in a hospital, having somehow escaped the clutches of Herzog, Zombie King […]
Hello all, and welcome to a new segment here at Horror Writers: Trailer Talk! From time-to-time, one of us will pick a trailer and wax poetic about it for a while. (This is something I did a couple times at my blog and had a lot of fun with it, so I thought I’d revive […]
Description from Netflix: After mysteriously losing her dog one evening, a Los Angeles barista questions her commitment to living in the city and decides to get out. But when her going-away party takes an odd turn, she finds that the city just might not let her go so easily. What I liked: 1. The […]
ANIMALS’ is a dark violent thriller centred on a gang of vicious children living deep in the north American wilderness and killing anyone who finds them. They begin hunting one of their own after he agrees to help a missing girl back to the city. Directed by Ryan Braund (BAFTA short & Royal Television […]
Nurse 3D. Oh, where to begin with Nurse 3D? Let’s go ahead and quote the statistic that opens the movie. During the last 30 years, the F.B.I. has documented that more murders have occurred within the health care profession than any other profession. It has also produced the greatest number of known serial killers. Enter […]