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Review: Stephen King’s ‘Rainy Season’ Short Film
Stephen King’s story, “The Rainy Season,” can be found in his 1993 short story collection, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It’s not one of King’s better-known stories, but the 2017 short film of the same name, written and directed by Vanessa Ionta Wright, does an excellent job of taking what seemed like a slight variation on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” and making it something more. Setting the sh...[Read More]
FEATURED FEARMAKER: Dee McCullay
Dee McCullay Filmmaker, Writer, Artist Location: Belgium Biography: I was an 80’s horror kid, always renting up all the horror and cheese horror I could find and making horror movie props and wishing I could get into special makeup fx when I grew up. A love for horror has always been there, as I had always loved it. By the time I started my first scripted horror short, Fallacious, I was fully pre...[Read More]
“Clinger” Latches on and Never Lets Go
The universal adage “love hurts,” manifests painfully in the horror/comedy Clinger, a literal representation of the cliche. Clinger is about love gone wrong, even in the afterlife, in this wacky horror/comedy brooding with fun and often hilariously bloody moments. From director Michael Steves in his first feature length film from Paragon Pictures is distributed by Osiris Entertainment. As one gath...[Read More]
Review: ‘The Control Group’
The compelling feature film debut from director Peter Hurd, The Control Group, manages to surprise and entertain through the entirety of its labyrinthine and unique plot. The film opens up with our protagonist Jack (Ross Destiche) sprawled out and dazed across the floor. When he gains some of his senses back it turns out Jack has awoken from his slumber in an insane asylum– and not one any person ...[Read More]