Tony Reames is an award winning director, thanks to his favorite film partner (his 10 year old daughter Evan). They have worked on over 25 short films in all different genres. For their latest they chose to pay tribute to some of the best horror movies with a tale about Evan’s mortal enemy, her babysitter. Kevin Nickelson of Horror News …

Adam Raynes, the writer behind the creepy home invasion short CAPTURED spoke with Kevin Nickelson of Horror News Net. Find out why Adam believes the less is more approach can be a more effective means of storytelling.  KN: Growing up, did you have anyone, a particular person or perhaps an icon, an actor or writer or a director that kind …

 Roshni Bhatia is a twenty-two year old writer-director who grew up in Mumbai, India. A science fiction and horror fan inspired by the films of James Cameron, Jason Blum and the writings of Richard Matheson, she came to the United States in 2018 to study film. Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world and she …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An American military satellite crash lands in Eastern Serbia and a team of US and Serbian agents are dispatched to secure the remains of the satellite, but when they locate the crash site all is not as it seems. REVIEW: One of the treats of reviewing horror films is the chance to get different perspectives on …

I like to think that my cinema interests have grown in variety over the years to embrace more output from different countries as well as varying sizes of budget and notoriety (both the pictures that enjoy multi-airings over a month as well as one that you might see once every 3 years and, even then, at 3:30am on a Saturday …

Saving the World From Under the Radar: A Tribute to the Forgotten Superheroes and Their Ninety-Minute Spotlights on Film Whether it was collecting comics since I was about six or sitting glued in front of tv and theater screens transfixed by the exploits of everyone from George Reeves as Superman to Adam West’s perfect for kids tv portrayal of Batman …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A horror-comedy slasher set in the 80’s about a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene cleanup crew. With a maniacal serial killer on the loose leaving them lots of work, did he ever leave the scene of the crime? REVIEW: When I was, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A troubled couple’s lives descend into violence and madness after a demonic entity takes their daughter. REVIEW: One of the many things that separate the indie filmmaker from his or her mainstream brethren is the refreshing lack of mass market and money pressure that is forced on them. They are free to make their complete vision, …

KN: Talk about your up-bringing in Southern California with your stunt driver dad. SM: Okay, I guess for me it was that my dad did a lot of tv shows, those 70s and 80s series. There was Hardcastle and McCormick. There was the A-Team there was the Fall Guy. He did a lot of mechanics work on them. Also did …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. REVIEW: “I don’t believe in using too much graphic violence, although I’ve done it. It’s better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to …

The Death’s Parade Film Festival (DPFF) has revealed its First Wave of film selections for its inaugural run on October 5th, 2019. The festival will feature short films from around the world with an emphasis on paranormal, psychological and body horror, found footage, experimental, killers, monsters, zombies, gore, and dark comedy. The First Wave exemplifies the spooky quality attendees can …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle. REVIEW: Minimalism has always been an intriguing angle for filming to me. It doesn’t always work, but is something of an ambitious leap in the attempting by the directing artist. It usually comes by way of two happenstances: either by creative design or financial necessity. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set ten years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts. REVIEW: Each of us has dealt with grief at one time or another and in varying degrees. Singular or multiple and, on occasion, all at once. In each instance, a staggering blow to both mind and body for even …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A bachelor party in the woods gets crashed by the ultimate party animal. REVIEW: One of the pure joys of reviewing independent film is that it’s a sub-level of film making that isn’t inhibited as much by the parameters set by financial backers of the big budget mainstream industry. The companies with the gajillion (not a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. REVIEW: Remember this dilly from your history of idioms learned from both life and school: “the blind leading the blind”? It’s kind of the one that tends to have the …