@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Aaron B. KoontzWriters: Cameron Burns, Aaron B. KoontzStars: Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva, Catherine CurtinReviewWhat happens when you merge the themes of The Omen with the more-than-capable Final Destination franchise? You get the modestly budgeted, but excellently produced Camera Obscura, the latest horror release by Chiller Films. Jack Zeller (Christopher Denham), a former war... Continue Reading →
Documentary Review: Mommy Dead and Dearest
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Erin Lee CarrReviewNothing is scarier than the truth. Especially when the truth reveals the most disturbing potentials of human behavior. A new HBO documentary – toying with the Mommy Dearest title with deadpan irony – uncovers the bizarre and unfathomable relationship between Deedee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose. Billed as a true... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Holly Kane Experiment
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Tom SandsWriter: Mick SandsStars: Nicky Henson, Emma Davies, Euan MacnaughtonReviewWhat happens when a young, ambitious filmmaker is given a modest budget to produce a film that is a rehash of Inception, Jason Bourne, and Minority Report? You get The Holly Kane Experiment, a derivative of not only these aforementioned films, but the figurative... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Sisters of the Plague
@dinsmorality reviews...It has been over a month since Jorge Torres-Torres's film Sisters of the Plague made its digital debut, and the ratings online are remarkably low. You can infer that my expectations could be described as such. But with such marks burying a film to some forgetful nadir, Sisters should be exhumed and celebrated for... Continue Reading →
Interview with Director of Bethany – James Cullen Bressack
Interview with James Cullen Bressack...@lcfremont and @dinsmorality chat with James Cullen Bressack. You can check it out below. We discuss Bethany, previous work and imaginary friends. James also has a bit of head cold but we got through the interview!For a 25 year old James Cullen Bressack has been prolific. Writing, producing and directing with over... Continue Reading →
Get Out: Escaping Reality
@dinsmorality opines about Get Out...SPOILERS AHEADIf you have not seen Get Out, well…get out and go see it. As our own Suzanne Bell notes in her review, “Get Out relies on a lot of misdirection and it’s fantastic.” I couldn’t agree more. The film is smart and fun, and strikes more than a few chords... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Parasites
@Dinsmorality reviews...Director: Chad FerrinWriter: Chad FerrinStars: Robert Miano, Sean Samuels, Jospeh PilatoReviewThere is something commendable about Chad Ferrin’s ambitious - albeit bizarre and uneven – new film Parasites. This low-budget fare takes on blockbuster themes of police violence, Los Angeles’ ongoing homeless problem, and blacksploitation (vis-à-vis film nostalgia wrapped with Black Lives Matter). More importantly,... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Girls of October
@dinsmorality reviews...The Girls of OctoberAuthor: Josh HancockReviewOne of the early concepts students learn in literature courses is the idea of the unreliable narrator, an often main character or omniscient presence who is subjective about the story unfolding on the page. But what if that main character loses agency, and the narrative is fragmented to the... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Kidnap Capital
@dinsmorality reviews...Felipe Rodriguez’s debut as writer and director is not one to be missed. More conceit than matter-of-fact, Kidnap Capital borrows from the conflicting reports and statistics widely available and contested positing Phoenix, Arizona as the kidnap capital of the United States. Arizona, being a border state to a country known for its own kidnapping,... Continue Reading →
Haddonfield Horror’s Favourite Films of 2016
Best of 2016...2016 certainly has its share highs and lows in the horror world, however at Haddonfield Horror we like to celebrate the good, so will we be concentrating on the great horror films of this year. We've all thrown our films into the ring and below are the best of 2016. Agree or disagree?... Continue Reading →
TV Review: 12 Deadly Days
12 Deadly Days...12 Deadly Days, the new and exclusive YouTube Red series, is an ambitious idea to celebrate the holiday season with what else? Binge watching television in front of the streaming Yule log fire. For those like me who have cut the media shackles known as the cable-TV cord, only to rack up even... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Nocturnal Animals
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Tom FordWriter: Tom Ford (Austin Wright novel)Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Michael ShannonReviewWho knew Tom Ford would translate his impeccable fashion designs into a viable film career? His elegantly composed 2009 film A Single Man, about an English professor coping with the death of his boyfriend in 1960s Los Angeles, is a character... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Under The Shadow
@Dinsmorality...Director: Babak AnvariWriter: Babak AnvariStars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby NaderiReviewBy now, most of us are inculcated with Shakespeare’s most (arguably) famous line from The Tempest: “What’s past is prologue.” But in cinema, what is past is actually present. Under the Shadow tells the story of an infamous period in world history: the Iran-Iraq war... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Possession Experiment
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Scott B. HansenWriter: Mary DixonStars: Chris Minor, Jake Brinn, Nicky JasperReviewHere is a number for you: 328. That is a very conservative number of movies listed under the theme “Demonic Possession” in the AllMovies.com database. Whether that number seems high or low to you, keep in mind that more cryptic films are likely... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Killbillies
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Tomaz Gorkic Writer: Tomaz Gorkic Stars: Nina Ivanisin, Lotos Sparovec, Nika RozmanReviewBoy, where does one go from a title like this? Do I even need to address this film’s play on words without seeming churlish? For a film like Killbillies, an apparent first foray into the horror genre for Slovenia, American audiences may... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: All Through The House
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Todd NunesWriter: Todd NunesStars: Ashley Mary Nunes, Jessica Cameron, Melynda Kiring ReviewHalloween is approaching, but so is Christmas. So why not merge the two? Enter All Through the House, the killer Santa, holiday-themed Freudian nightmare you never knew you wanted. Writer and Director Todd Nunes cooked up quite a script with his Krampus-style... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: ClownTown
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Tom Nagel Writer: Jeff Miller Stars: Brian Nagel, Lauren Compton, Andrew Staton ReviewClowns are trending. All, it seems, at the expense of those suffering from coulrophobia (fear of clowns). The last year or two of American cinema and television have re-produced the killer clown archetype popularized by Stephen King’s IT, with new genre... Continue Reading →
Interview with Clowntown star Lauren Elise
@dinsmorality reviews...Eric Dinsmore got to have a chat to Lauren Elsie about her experience making Clowntown.I see this is your first time working in a horror film. How was this experience different from other genres?The horror genre is very, very different. Being that this was my first feature within the genre, I felt so many emotions... Continue Reading →
Don’t Breathe – A jolt at the box office
Two words: Turkey baster. If that alone does not get you to the theater to see the incredibly entertaining Don’t Breathe, which has been out in the U.S. (and nearly everywhere else) – and making good money – for a few weeks now, then let me offer a few more teasers. For one, the setting of a... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Bed of the Dead
@Dinsmorality reviews...Director: Jeff Maher Writers: Cody Calahan, Jeff Maher Stars: Colin Price, Alysa King, Gwenlyn CumynReviewBefore diving into this review, let’s unpack the title of this film and clear the air about what this movie is not. With a title like Bed of the Dead, it may be easy to judge a book by its... Continue Reading →