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Survival of the Dead (2010)
Mar 28th
Writer/director: George A. Romero | Rated: R | Review date: 24-March-2010
For the sixth installment of George Romero’s Dead series, Survival of the Dead moves to an island inhabited primarily by two rival clans: the O’Flynns and the Muldoons. The O’Flynns, lead by patriarch Patrick O’Flynn (Kenneth Welsh), protect the island from the undead by exterminating all the infected. On the other side we have Seamus Muldoon (Richard Fitzpatrick) and his family of religiously charged individuals bent on keeping their loved ones around, in hopes that they can adapt and co-exist once again. When the two groups clash, O’Flynn is expelled from the More >
Creature of Darkness (2010)
Mar 24th
Writer/Director: Mark Stouffer | Rated: R | Review date: 24-March-2010
Mark Stouffer’s Creature of Darkness is a science fiction monster movie much reminiscent of the Predator. It differs in that this time around, we don’t have a group of rag tag commandos, but rather college-aged friends out for a good time in the woods. The story follows Andrew (Devon Sawa) who’s suffered nightmares of a creepy and murderous alien. Andrew’s friend Heather (Fernanda Romero) convinces him to overcome his fears and join a group on an off-road adventure. It’s only a matter of time before Andrew’s nightmares start to resemble reality.
At this point the More >
Hunger (2008)
Mar 20th
Director/writer: Steve McQueen | Rated: n/a (violence) | Review date: 20-Mar-2010
English artist Steve McQueen makes his feature film debut with Hunger, the historical drama focused around Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners during the 1980s. The prisoners in the Maze prison, where the film takes place, were denied political status and branded simply as criminals. The film is broken down into three acts, but ultimately focuses on one character and his bold acts taken for a greater good. Though the story revolves around political turmoil, it would be a great mistake to avoid this movie for that purpose, as the More >
Lo (2009)
Mar 14th
Director/writer: Travis Betz | Rated: n/a | Review date: 14-Mar-2010
Lo is one of those rare films that has the ability to tread multiple genres while not adhering to the rules or conventions of any specific one exclusively. The story is fairly simple. A guy named Justin (Ward Roberts) is in love. His peculiar and mysterious girlfriend April (Sarah Lassez) goes missing. Desperate Justin will stop at nothing to get his love back, even if that means tampering with the dark side and putting his own life on the line.
Using a necronomicon-esque book left behind by April, Justin summons a demon named More >
ThanksKilling (2009)
Mar 5th
Director/writer: Jordan Downey | Rated: n/a (violence & nudity) | Review date: 5-Mar-2010
Jordan Downey’s ThanksKilling starts off with a smack-talking killer turkey chasing town a topless dame in colonial America, setting the stage for the rest of this preposterous ultra-low budget horror-spoof. In modern day, when five college classmates head back home for the holiday they unknowingly stumble upon the awoken curse of the Thanksgiving turkey. I already used up my food analogies in my review of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, so bear with me.
ThanksKilling is one of those films that aims to be bad. Not just the low-budget kind More >