@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Marty StalkerWriters: Rachel Lysaght, Marty StalkerStars: John Zaffis, Ralph Sarchie, Art BellReviewIn anything one does pertaining to art and entertainment, one must first ask this basic question: Who is my audience? That’s a more than appropriate question to ask yourself before deciding to sit down and watch Hostage to the Devil, a documentary... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Into The Forest
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Patricia Rozema Writer: Patricia RozemaStars: Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max MinghellaReviewInto the Forest is perhaps the prime example of a popular sci-fi, post apocalyptic genre getting an “art house” treatment. Popular culture, overall, has evolved into a blending of perceived high brow entertainment repackaged into a mass marketed product, sometimes with mixed... Continue Reading →
Opinion: Stranger Things
@dinsmorality shares his thoughts...Retro, nostalgic, even rad; all apt keywords that could easily describe Netflix’s new show and 80’s horror-themed throwback Stranger Things. With only 8 episodes, Stranger Things’ creators - the Duffer Brothers, whose credits include the respectable indie horror flick Hidden - attempt to mash up beloved tropes from recognizable 80s flicks such... Continue Reading →
Interview with Heir director Richard Powell
@dinsmorality interviews...@dinsmorality got to the chance to ask Heir director Richard Powell a few questions about his short film. Check out the interview below and check out Heir when you get the chance. There is much I want to discuss with the making of this film, but let's start with its central idea: child abuse.... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Lights Out
@dinsmorality...Director: David F. SandbergWriter: Eric Heisserer Stars: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello ReviewIt has been a great year for horror. With solid sequels to The Conjuring and The Purge, as well as surprise suspenseful hits such as The Shallows, comes an original within the franchise universe: Lights Out. For those of you familiar with its... Continue Reading →
Short Film Review: Heir
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Richard PowellWriter: Richard PowellStars: Bill Oberst Jr., Robert Nolan, Mateo D'AvinoReviewThere is a new horror short that is not to be missed. Written and directed by Richard Powell and produced by Zach Green, Heir is as intriguing as it is disturbing, built on an idea that bends the monster-as-metaphor trope. Horror fans are... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Perfect Husband
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Lucas PavettoWriters: Lucas Pavetto, Massimo Vavassori Stars: Gabriella Wright, Bret Roberts, Carl WhartonReviewThe independent studio Artsploitation is known for distributing suspenseful stories that require audiences to rabbit hole their way into the psyche of a film’s main characters. The release of the brilliant French psychological thriller Fever, which we reviewed on Haddonfield, is... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Bachelor Games
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Edward McGown Writer: Chris Hill & Sam MichellStars: Charlie Bewley, Jack Doolan, Jack Gordon ReviewYou are a young, good looking male who is about to marry the woman of your dreams. You are from the UK, and your loyal lads are happy and proud to be your groomsmen. But before there is a... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Shallows
The Shallows...Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Writer: Anthony JaswinskiStars: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett CullenReviewSummer needs a good B-movie. Especially one of those implausible genre movies that involves Blake Lively - whose body is unabashedly exploited by the (apparent) male gaze of the camera - as she quite literally surfs into the thrashes of a Great White... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Wailing
@dinsmorality reviews...Na Hong-Jin, the director of the highly acclaimed The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, has composed what I can only describe as a beautiful, haunting, and disoriented mess that does not need cleaning. That mess is the subject matter of his new film The Wailing, a genre mashup of horror, suspense, the supernatural, and... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Fever
@dinsmorality reviews...What does one say when the plot of a movie is so mysterious that the movie itself becomes mystery? Do not think of “mystery” in a classical sense like Sherlock Holmes or a dark crime drama; think of mystery here as the deep and dark psychological pits that allow for the ordinary – even... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Hidden
@dinsmorality reviews...Directors: The Duffer BrothersWriters: The Duffer BrothersStars: Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn LindReviewWhat does one say after watching a movie that is 90% good and about 10%...well…not terrible but implausible, even for the fantasy-post-apocalyptic genre? Enter Hidden, a very tense, well-executed concept with an engaging plot that veers into the typical final climactic twist... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Ninjas Vs. Monsters
@Dinsmorality reviews...Director: Justin TimpaneWriters: Justin TimpaneStars: Daniel Ross, Cory Okouchi, Dan GuyReviewIt's in the title...Sadly not the title of what could be a very compelling Supreme Court Case, Ninjas v. Monsters is more like an exercise in stoner logic. You know the saying “high when I wrote it, sober when I spoke it?” I can’t quite point... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Desecrated
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Rob GarciaWriter: Cecil Chambers Stars: Haylie Duff, Michael Ironside, Gonzalo MenendezReviewI’m not going to beat around the bush here. I’m going to burn it: Desecrated is a terrible movie. As I have written before, I really do not like to pick on a low-budget movie, for I and my colleagues have praised many... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Break-In
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Justin Doescher Writer: Justin Doescher Stars: Justin Doescher, Maggie Binkley, Juan Pablo VeizaReviewI am a sucker for indie films. Pulling off a decent movie with a budget that meets the United States’ definition of the poverty line is a tough feat. And making one that becomes a hit? Well, not everyone can make... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Hush
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Mike FlanaganWriter: Mike Flanagan & Kate SiegelStars: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Samantha SloyanReview2016 appears to be the year Blumhouse produces, promotes, and distributes new and experimental projects to the On Demand market. Curve, The Veil, and Visions are the three films one’s horror-filled Netflix Queue (aka My List for us silly Americans who prefer line... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Pandemic
@Dinsmore reviews...Director: John SuitsWriter: Justin T. BensonStars: Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle, Mekhi PhiferReviewTime to press the “On” button and push “Start” on your controller, for the first-person shooter movie has arrived. While the video-game-turned movie is not new by any means, in comes Pandemic, a sleek and stylistic horror-action film that could (and... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Ratter
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Branden KramerWriter: Branden KramerStars: Ashley Benson, Matt McGorry, Kaili VernoffReviewForget Edward Snowden. FBI versus Apple? Peanuts. Sure, both topics pertain to “National Security Interests” and privacy, but do they have anything on a “ratter,” an apt neologism roughly meaning a hacker who stalks his (being gender specific here, ladies) prey by infiltrating our... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Asmodexia
@Dinsmorality reviews...Director: Marc CarretéWriter: Marc Carreté, Mike HostenchStars: Albert Baró, Marta Belmonte, Pepo Blasco, Luis Marco, Claudia Pons, Irene MontalaReviewThere is nothing worse than a boring horror film. When the word “boring” modifies a word that denotatively means “a very strong feeling of fear, dread, and shock” (thanks, internet!), you know you have a problem on your hands.... Continue Reading →
Short film review: Demonic Attachment
@dinsmorality reviews...Director: Matt Aaron KrinskyWriter: Jennifer NangleStars: Jennifer Nangle, Jennifer Farac, Dyana LiuReviewJennifer Nangle and her catalog of shorts is something horror fans need to pay attention to. This Indie filmmaker and fellow Angeleno recently premiered her latest short, the 18-minute Demonic Attachment, succeeding a special screening of two prior projects: Dare You and a... Continue Reading →