A woman has to help an alien race to save her lost space brother in Meanwhile on Earth. Elsa Martens (Megan Northam) is a care home nurse, who is grieving for her astronaut brother Franck (Sebastien Pouderoux), who vanished without a trace while on a mission. One night, Elsa begins hearing Franck’s voice and learns…
Demonic forces terrorize a family in a dilapidated apartment complex in Evil Dead Rise. Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is a single mother living with her children Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and Kassie (Nell Fisher) in an old Los Angeles apartment complex that is slated for demolition. The family is visited by Ellie’s sister Beth…
The 1974 proto-slasher gets the legacy sequel treatment with Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Entrepreneurs Melody (Sarah Yarkin) and Dante (Jacob Latimore) travel along with Melody’s sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) and Dante’s girlfriend Ruth (Nell Hudson) to the remote Texas town of Harlow, with the intentions of auctioning off the predominantly abandoned buildings. However, Melody and Dante…
A heroin junkie gets his mind literally fried after he is abducted by aliens in Fried Barry. Barry (Gary Green) is heroin abducted lowlife in Cape Town, who walks out on his wife Suz (Chanelle de Jager) shortly before he goes on a drug bender and gets abducted by aliens, who take control of his…
I should probably preface by saying that I have a love/hate relationship with avant garde/experimental films. Some types of experimental films I find compelling, while others I find excruciating. Sadly, I have to say that the highly experimental documentary Leviathan falls into the latter category. Leviathan is a cinéma vérité documentary about a group of…
Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a horror/comedy that initially debuted at 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Tonight I saw the film during a screening at the Toronto Underground Cinema (though it’s also supposed to get a limited release next month). The film can be best described as a reverse horror movie, since most of the events…
