Cinepocalypse… Cinepocalypse: Sequence Break; Dead Shack; Suspiria 7 Nov 201713 Mar 2018 On my third day at the festival, I saw two shorts (Feeding Time and Blood Shed), along with two new films (Sequence Break and Dead Shack), along with the Chicago premiere of…
Movie Reviews Contracted: Phase 2 18 Feb 201612 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Josh Forbes, 2015. Starring Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown, Anna Lore, Laurel Vail, Peter Cilella. 78 minutes. 5/10 Towards the end of Eric England's 2013 film Contracted,…
Movie Reviews Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 28 Jan 201613 Nov 2017 United States/United Kingdom. Directed by Burr Steers, 2016. Starring Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Boothe, Matt Smith, Charles Dance, Lena Headey, Suki Waterhouse. 108 minutes. 5/10 The…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Day Four 28 Sep 201510 Oct 2016 On the fourth day: video-game documentary Man vs. Snake; French body-horror Evolution; and Danish zombie flick What We Become. Continue reading "Fantastic Fest 2015: Day Four"
Movie Reviews Plague 12 Aug 201517 Oct 2016 Australia. Directed by Kosta Ouzas & Nick Kozakis, 2015. Starring Tegan Crowley, Scott Marcus, Steven Kennedy. 84 minutes. Another zombie apocalypse. (Okay, if you insist: another plague-that-makes-people-behave-like-zombies apocalypse.) Evie (Tegan Crowley) hides out…
Movie Reviews Maggie 11 May 201517 Oct 2016 United States/Switzerland. Directed by Henry Hobson, 2015. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson. 95 minutes. It seems that most of the publicity photos on Maggie’s official website are of people hugging each…
Movie Reviews The Battery 8 Oct 201418 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Jeremy Gardner, 2012. Starring Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cromheim, Niels Bolle. 102 minutes. Let us ponder, for a moment, the case of Dawn of the Dead. "In 1968, George…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Nightmare City 6 Jun 201412 Nov 2017 Italy. Directed by Umberto Lenzi, 1980. Starring Mel Ferrer, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter. 88 minutes. 3/10 Intrepid television-news reporter Dean Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) bides his time at an anonymous European airport, waiting for…
Movie Reviews Contracted 7 Apr 201411 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Eric England, 2014. Starring Najarra Townsend, Alice Macdonald, Caroline Williams. 84 minutes. 8/10 "Sex is natural," proclaimed the Anglo-Greek poet Georgios Panayiotou in 1987, "sex is fun." But it's…
