Review

Picture yourself in the middle of the desert, surrounded by darkness, with only a flashlight to illuminate your path. In silence you push forward, slowly, cautiously, the only sounds those of rocks and twigs which crunch beneath your feet. All of a sudden, you hear a shrub thrashing behind you. You whip your flashlight around, shining it at the disrupted shrub and catch in the torch’s beam the tai...[Read More]

Heidi Moore does it all– she writes (along with co-writer Cassandra Sechler), directs, produces and even appears in her film Dolly Deadly. Pretty impressive. However, she takes it further than that: she also contributed to the film’s art department, art direction, production design, make-up, special effects, and served as the film’s cinematographer. In short, she’s a paragon of what independent ho...[Read More]

In Darren Lynn Bousman’s newest film Abattoir, Julia (Jessica Lowndes) is a curious and plucky reporter, the type you would find in the films of the 30s and 40s; her character, reminiscent of the fast-talking Hildy Johnson, played by Rosalind Russell, in His Girl Friday. Grady (Joe Anderson) her male confidant and police detective, is first introduced to us in trench coat and fedora, like he walke...[Read More]

Bubba the Redneck Werewolf— based on the indie comic book of the same name by creator Mitch Hyman–is the newest film from director Brendan Jackson Rogers and scribe Stephen Biro. If you’re wondering what the film is about, then avert your attention towards the film’s bodacious title, not only does it capture what the film is about, but it prepares you for its comedic and off-the-wall tone.Bubba (C...[Read More]

Back in 1972 a film by director S.F. Brownrigg, titled Don’t Look in the Basement, hit the silver screens, in what would be the first of five low-budget films from the independent director. Shot on a budget that hovered around 100k in Tehuacana, Texas, the film revolved around the accidental murder of Dr. Stephen’s the lead doctor at the mental health facility Dr. Stephen’s Sanitarium. Having neve...[Read More]

Teleios is a fascinating high-concept science fiction film, by writer and director Ian Truitner, that is both visually stunning and thematically engrossing. The film follows an expedition of genetically modified humans that embark on a daunting journey to seek information and investigate a derelict mining vessel– called Atromitos– whose fate is speculated to have had a violent end. The failed miss...[Read More]