@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Jason DeVanWriter: Jason DeVan, Heather DeVan, Dylan MatlockStars: Jessica Barth, Matt Dallas, Sydney Sweeney, Madison Lintz, Heather DeVan, Bruce DavisonReviewWith every exorcism or possession film comes with a huge shadow cast over it by The Exorcist. With Along Came The Devil that is still true, however it has tried to distance itself from... Continue Reading →
Fantasia 2018 – Film Review: Rondo
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Drew BarnhardtWriter: Drew BarnhardtStars: Ketrick Copeland, Reggie De Morton, Grant Benjamin Leibowitz, Iva Nora, Brenna Otts, Kevin Sean Ryan, Gena Shaw, Luke Sorge, Joseph M. VealsReviewPlaying at Fantasia 2018Â Rondo is a sleazy, odd, confronting and violent exploitation-esque film that plays by its own rules...and I love it.Military vet Steven has some issues. As... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Dexter Boomstick
@TigersMS78 reviews...There is something to be said for a book that commands you to keep on reading. Sometimes it is writing style, the story or the characters - in the case of Dexter Boomstick it's all three.The book has moments where it channels Stephen King - small town and small town characters in peril -... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Sequence Break
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Graham SkipperWriter: Graham SkipperStars: John Dinan, Lyle Kanouse, Fabianne Therese, Chase WilliamsonReviewIt certainly isn't hard to sympathise with Oz (Williamson) in Graham Skipper's Sequence Break. Oz understands the digital world and electronics, in particular the repair of arcade games. When he is fixing these machines things are simple. It's the human interaction part... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Island Zero
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Josh GerritsenWriters: Tess GerritsenStars: Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Teri ReevesReviewIsland Zero is reminiscent of a lost film you'd see late at night flicking through channels, it brings a 70s type feel with it (despite not being a 70s set film) and whilst you may think that I am deriding the film for this, in fact it... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Downrange
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Ryûhei Kitamura Writer: Ryûhei Kitamura, Joey O'BryanStars: Kelly Connaire, Stephanie Pearson, Rod HernandezReviewDownrange gives you about 13 minutes peace before starting to try to psychologically (and for our unfortunate characters physical) put you through the meat grinder for it's remaining runtime. It only works part of the time which is a shame.We are mid... Continue Reading →
Recap: Ash Vs Evil Dead – Rifting Apart – S3, Ep8
Ash Vs Evil Dead...We rejoin Ash and Pablo hiding from the cops inside the school as the dead kids are wheeled out. Ash dealing with Brandy's death, now finds out Kelly isn't Kelly. Pablo knows that Kelly is caught in the rift and that sparks Ash's memory in a delicious call back to Evil Dead... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Wildling
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Fritz BöhmWriter: Fritz Böhm, Florian EderStars: Liv Tyler, Brad Dourif, Bel PowleyReviewAnna (Bel Powley) has spent her entire life locked in the one room of small hut in the middle of a forest. Her 'Daddy' (Brad Dourif) is keeping her captive, Anna of course doesn't know that any of this is wrong but... Continue Reading →
Recap: Ash vs Evil Dead – Twist And Shout – S3, Ep7
Ash Vs Evil Dead...Brandy wants to go to the school dance to meet Ruby and find out if she is a demon once and for all, Ash and the possessed Kayla/Kelly devise a plan to be there if or more likely when it goes down to swoop in for the kill. Kayla hasn't let go... Continue Reading →
Recap: Ash vs Evil Dead – Unfinished Business, Season 3 – Ep 4
Ash Vs Evil Dead...We join this weeks episode with Ash dealing with the pieces of his dead but not dead Dad. Thankfully Brock's ghost turns up and by this stage of Ash's life he brushes it off like its nothing. Ghost Dad explains that on the night he was run down by the possessed Delta... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Cold Hell (Die Holle)
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Stefan RuzowitzkyWriter: Martin AmbroschStars: Violetta Schurawlow, Tobias Moretti, Robert PalfraderReviewCold Hell folds the revenge genre in different ways that make it both thrilling and challenging.Özge, a taxi drive in Vienna lives a fairly solitary life. A determined, prickly and uncompromising person, who is also an accomplished kickboxer. Özge finds her self witness to... Continue Reading →
Recap: Ash Vs Evil Dead – Booth Three, S3 – E02
Ash Vs Evil Dead...Episode 2 begins with Ruby speeding down the highway trying to hold off the birth of her evil spawn. After narrowly missing some hitchhikers, Ruby gives birth in much the same way that a balloon bursts and the inside of the car is painted like a red monochrome Jackson Pollock. The hitchhikers find... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Verónica
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Paco PlazaWriters: Fernando Navarro, Paco PlazaStars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván ChaveroReviewWith Verónica being billed as the scariest film currently on Netflix - you could be forgiven for thinking that it was some kind of marketing ploy to up the views. How could Verónica ever live up to that billing? Well,... Continue Reading →
Interview with Alston Ramsay
Alston Ramsay...Alston Ramsay writer of Midnighters, was kind enough to answer some questions for us about the film and writing speeches...InterviewHADDONFIELD HORROR: The basic idea for Midnighters came from a horrific true story. What was it about that story that caught your attention because there is A LOT going on in that story?ALSTON RAMSAY: For your readers... Continue Reading →
Recap: Ash Vs Evil Dead – Family, S3 – Ep01
Ash Vs Evil Dead...[SPOILERS AHEAD]Ash is back, baby! Season 3 starts with an advertisement that sees Ash opening Ashy Slashy a hardware store / sex toy emporium. Ash being well...Ash is taking his new found fame instead of infamy at Elk Grove and parlaying it into a money making scheme because...well once again he is... Continue Reading →
Review: Wolf Creek Series Two
@TigersMS78 reviews... Directors: Greg McLean, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Geoff BennettWriters: Nick Parsons, Shanti Gudgeon, Mark Dapin, Greg HaddrickStars: John Jarratt, Elsa Cocquerel, Matt Day, Jason Chong, Charlie Clausen, Tess Haubrich, Stephen Hunter, Christopher Kirby, Josephine Langford, Ben Oxenbould, Adam Fiorentino, Laura Wheelwright, Julian Pulvermacher, Elijah Williams Review In my review of the Wolf Creek series one,... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Bullet Head
Bullet Head...Director: Paul SoletWriter: Paul SoletStars: Adrien Brody, John Malkovich, Antonio Banderas, Rory CulkinReviewBullet Head kicks off with a strange sequence, we are thrown into a dog POV of its first dog fight, it in itself is a strange beginning and if you are an animal lover it is an upsetting sequence (not due to the graphic nature but rather... Continue Reading →
Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival – Review: Red Spring
@TigersMS78 reviews...Director: Jeff SinasacWriter: Jeff SinasacStars: Jeff Sinasac, Elysia White, Adam CronheimReviewRed Spring is a low budget but very earnest film. Everyone is committed to making it the best it can be and it shows that care was taken with every aspect of this film.It's the end of the world as we know it and... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Mayhem
@TigersMS78 reviews... Director: Joe Lynch Writer: Matias Caruso Stars: Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Kerry Fox, Mark Frost Review Joe Lynch's Mayhem definitely lives up to its name. What it lacks in subtlety it makes up for in unmitigated blood and carnage. Say hello to Derek Cho (Yuen) a miserable lawyer determined to climb... Continue Reading →
Review: Where Is It (Short Film)
@TigersMS78 reviews...Directors: Todd Spence, Zak WhiteWriters: Todd Spence, Zak WhiteStars: Whitney Gries, Travina Springer, Patrick KeaneReviewShort films, especially scary ones and especially those that clock in at under four minutes have to create and maintain the right atmosphere for the full run time. Where Is It does this by using new technology and an age... Continue Reading →