Artsploitation, a distribution company hell bent in finding and cultivating the absolutely best, strange, and the most âchallenging of international genre filmsâ brings us the long overdue Dutch film Meat. Despite the filmâs festival circuit run since 2010, it is just now releasing on Home Video and VOD platforms, nearly six years later. However, donât let that deter you from watching Meat, a film...[Read More]
From writer and director Brandon Scullion, comes the Wild Eye Releasing film Consumption (originally titled Live-in-Fear). Set to the snowy backdrop of Utah, the film is about a group of friends who head out to a cabin only to come face to face with ancient powers lurking in the forest. The group of friends include: Seth (David Lautman), Becca (Sarah Greyson), Eric (Chris Dorman), and Mallory (Ari...[Read More]
Somewhere in Anaheim, just across the freeway from a particular theme parked run by a mouse lies a nondescript business park hiding the horrifying home to Cross Roads Escape Games. Their original Hex Room game changed the escape game scene, locking six people in individual rooms, and now theyâve revamped their game to make it even scarier, and We Are Indie Horror was there to experience every hear...[Read More]
Back in early September We Are Indie Horror received news on an indie film from visual effects artist Torey Hass, The Neon Dead. Not to be confused with The Neon Demon, the The Neon Dead is a blast to watch shows some real potential for all involved within the film. For those unaware the official synopsis is as follows: An unemployed college graduate hires two paranormal exterminators to combat a ...[Read More]
Do you enjoy the Halloween season, but maybe donât enjoy being chased around by chainsaws? Or maybe you have some small kids in the family and haunts might be a bit too extreme for them? Have no fear, Unbound Productions is here to serve you and your family for three hours of creepy cool entertainment. Now in their eighth year of Wicked Lit, the uniquely amazing theater company is back at Mountain...[Read More]
Tucked away in a nondescript strip mall in Tustin, California is one of the most intense and unique haunts in Southern California. Entering itâs Sophomore year, The 17th Door once again opens its many doors to the thousands of willing victims to go through the terrifying experience. Last year we met Paula, the main character of The 17th Door, and this year her story continues where we last left he...[Read More]
When things go awry, especially a heist, or any crime involving monetary gain, it is best to involve the least amount of accomplices as possible. If the opportunity ever arises, or youâre looking for a new career, I recommend one go into criminality as a solo act. In Blood Money, five friends who hide out in an empty summer home in France are about to find out about these high-risk entanglements w...[Read More]
Pig Pen is not a horror film per se but does showcase a brutality that only humanity could musterâ and that to me is more frightful than a chest bursting alien or a nightmare prowling clawed-man. Nonetheless, this film is incredibly bloody and gory for a drama/thriller. Filmed on the streets, Pig Pen follows thirteen year old Zack (Lucas Koch) whoâs about to learn just how tough it is out there aw...[Read More]
The gritty horror film The Sky Has Fallen, from writer and director Doug Roos, boldly proclaims that  itâs all practical, no CG, and no shaky camâ and Iâll be damned if they didnât deliver as promised. The Sky Has Fallen is every gorehounds dream, featuring an excess of blood spurts, dismemberment, and beheadings. From the very first scene in the film, Roos makes his goal clear: there will be bloo...[Read More]
The web series Horror Hotel comes to bustling life in feature length format as Horror Hotel the Movie. The lucrative Ricky and Al Hess have brought their second season of Horror Hotel and compiled the episodes like segments in an anthology film. Horror Hotel the Movie, is a cross between The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, featuring off-the-wall stories with tongue in cheek humor and ...[Read More]
Horror films are the stuff of nightmares. Monsters that creep in the night, jolting us from sleep. We shoot up in bed, swearing we heard something or saw something, yet itâs quiet all around us. The short film from Superfreak Media deals with a nightmare and this very sense of dread with Sandman The film opens on a young woman in bed, having stirred awake at 3:33am. She sits up, unable to get back...[Read More]
This past summer IFC Midnight gave us a slew of exciting features, such as the fantastic thriller I am not a Serial Killer and the star studded and psychedelic tale Antibirth. Now, IFC Midnight brings us the eerie and bloody flick The Devilâs Dolls from Padraig Reynolds, the director behind 2011âs Rites of Spring. The Devilâs Dolls begins with a jarring and eye-opening sequence involving a mass mu...[Read More]