A judge recovering from a stroke is tormented by a fellow patient and his dementia doll in The Rule of Jenny Pen. Judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush) has a near-fatal stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed and admitted into a retirement home. Not expecting his stay to be very long, Mortensen has a poor relationship…
This Review Is an Expansion of Our Original Review Published as Part of Our Coverage of Fantasia 2024 The stars of a 1980s professional wrestling league find themselves part of a Satanic cult’s ritual in Dark Match. SAW is a ragtag 1988 wrestling league managed by Rusty Beans (Jonathan Cherry) and featuring a roster of…
This Review Was Originally Published as Part of Our Coverage of Fantasia 2024 The stars of a 1980s professional wrestling league find themselves part of a Satanic cult’s ritual in Dark Match. SAW is a ragtag 1988 wrestling league managed by Rusty Beans (Jonathan Cherry) and featuring a roster of stars that includes Mean Joe…
A grieving 12-year-old comes to believe that his dead father has returned in Daddy’s Head. Issac (Rupert Turnbull) is led by his stepmother Laura (Julia Brown) into a hospital to say goodbye to his father James (Charles Aitken), who was gravely injured in an automobile accident and is about to be taken off life support….
A Serbian fracking team unearths a parasitic cephalopod in Hell Hole. An American fracking team led by Emily (Toby Poser) and John (John Adams) have begun drilling in the Serbian wilderness, much to the concern of local scientists Sofia (Olivera Peruničić) and Nikola (Aleksandar Trmčić). The team unearthed a 19th-century French soldier encased in some…
A blind woman seeks answers for her twin sister’s murder in Oddity. While renovating her newly acquired country house, Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is brutally murdered. The crime is pegged on Olin Boole (Tadhg Murphy), a one-eyed man recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital, where Dani’s husband Ted (Gwilym Lee) works as a doctor, with Olin…
A supernatural killer goes on a brutal rampage after a gold medallion is taken from the ruins of an only fire tower in In a Violent Nature. At the ruins of an old fire tower in the woods of White Pines, the naive Troy (Liam Leone) takes a golden locket hanging from the structure, despite…
An aspiring prog-rock musician faces a rising body count after confronting his grotesque new neighbour in Destroy All Neighbors. William Brown (Jonah Ray) is a recording engineer and aspiring musician, trying to finish his prog-rock magnum opus in the apartment she shares with his girlfriend Emily (Kiran Deol). However, William faces a roadblock with the…
A young woman traumatized by a Christmas Eve serial killer wishes she was never born in It’s a Wonderful Knife. A knife-wielding killer dressed as a snow angel on Christmas Eve terrorizes the town of Angel Falls. The killer, who turns out to be local developer Henry Waters (Justin Long), is killed by Winnie Carruthers…
A psychiatrist switches bodies with one of her patients in Suitable Flesh. Elizabeth Derby (Heather Graham) is a psychiatrist who is approached in her office by Asa Waite (Judah Lewis), who wants her help to save him from his father, Ephraim (Bruce Davison). Elizabeth is shocked when Asa suddenly changes personalities in front of her…
