Three American filmmakers get more than they bargained for when investigating a ghost story in rural Quebec in Curse of Aurore. Casey Nolan, the host of the YouTube series Mind Seed TV, plays a video off a thumb drive found in a Dark Web mystery box. On it is footage shot by American filmmakers Aaron…
A woman who runs a hidden video channel exposing classified scams finds herself the target of a twisted revenge fantasy in Follow Her. Jess Peters (Dani Barker) is a woman who runs a web series called “Classified Crazies” on the video social media site Live Hive. She secretly films and exposes men who post classified…
A small-town police officer’s last case has him investigating a gruesome murder in The Breach. John Hawkins (Allan Hawco) is the police chief of the tiny town of Lone Crow, who takes one last case before transferring to the big city when a canoe carrying the grisly remains of local scientist Cole Parsons (Adam Kenneth…
A group of women on a healing retreat confront the monsters of the past in Dark Nature. Still traumatized after escaping an abusive relationship with her boyfriend Derek (Daniel Arnold), Joy (Hannah Anderson) is convinced by her friend Carmen (Madison Walsh) to go on a retreat for trauma survivors led by Dr. Carol Dunnley (Kyra…
Disclosure: This review is based on a Rough Cut screener of The Devil Comes at Night, so any technical limitations have been ignored A washed-up boxer finds himself trapped in a house surrounded by a demonic cult in The Devil Comes at Night. Incoherent following a bar fight, Ben (Ryan Allen) is dropped off at…
This double episode contains the remaining interviews from the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival. First up is our interview with writer/directors Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes of the film Sissy, which is now available to stream on Shudder. Next, we have writer/director K.C. Carthew and star Viva Lee from the film Polaris, which is having its…
A woman finds herself in a cell and is forced to do a series of tests to save her daughter in Control. Eileen (Sara Mitich) wakes in an empty cell with no memory of who she is. A voice (Karen LeBlanc) instructs Eileen to complete a series of tests or else her daughter Eve (Evie…
A group of neighbours taking shelter from murderous creatures have to deal with a killer among them in Shifted. An unknown outbreak has turned humans into bloodthirsty creatures. Derek Monroe (Derek Lackenbauer), Becka Thomas (Victoria Dunsmore), Jimmy Tenneson (Brian Otto), Cindy Dawson (Alyssa Anne Blasak), Frankie Bernard Isaacs (Zach Parsons), and Lauren Goode (Alyssa Schermel)…
A neurosurgeon whose life is falling apart finds himself forced to return home to confront the past in L’Inhumain. Mathieu Cote (Samian) is a gifted neurosurgeon whose life begins to fall apart when he is put on leave for a substance abuse issue, followed by his wife Julie (Véronique Beaudet) leaving him after discovering an…
This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2022 A disgraced reality TV star is recruited to save a real estate agent’s husband from a death cult in Cult Hero. Kallie Jones (Liv Collins) is a real estate agent in Owen Sound distressed about losing clients to Cynthia Doyle (Jessica Vano)…
A social media star’s new friendship while vacationing in Thailand takes a dark turn in Influencer. Madison (Emily Tennant) is a famous social media influencer on vacation in Thailand who is distraught over the absence of her boyfriend and manager, Ryan (Rory J. Saper). Madison ends up meeting CW (Cassandra Naud), who helps Madison to…
A young woman recently released from juvenile detention believes a powerful God targets her in The Protector. Evelyn (Chelsea Clark) is a juvenile delinquent on probation release in the town of Wilfrid under the care of Dr. Flora (Rebecca Jenkins). On her 21st birthday, Evelyn is gifted a book speaking of the powerful Indian God…
The review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2022 A time traveller from the future tries to make the world a better place in Relax, I’m From the Future. Casper (Rhys Darby) is a man from an unspecified time in the future who arrives in the present day and sets forth…
This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2022 A young girl raised by a polar bear in a frozen post-apocalyptic world has to escape from a band of marauders in Polaris. It is 2144, and Sumi (Viva Lee) is a young girl who roams the snowbound wasteland with her polar…
