Tag Archives: 2016

SYNOPSIS: A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.

SYNOPSIS: After years of rotting in Joliet, Les, a wrongfully imprisoned street legend known as “The Ghoul”, is released into a mad search through Chicago’s back alleys for the man who slaughtered his mother and robbed him of his soul. Aided by mysterious benefactors, he must delve beneath the city into a modern labyrinth of gutters whose tendrils have grown …

SYNOPSIS: A mother fears for her daughter when she hears strange sounds in her home. REVIEW: Another short film, folks! Today we have THE SOUNDS THEY MAKE, written and directed by Andrew Huggins. Mr Huggins is an award-winning filmmaker with many accolades to his credit, including the short film WHERE THE WOLVES LIE. This film stars Vanessa Ore and Gianna …

SYNOPSIS: Six people find themselves trapped in Love Canal, Niagara Falls, an old toxic waste site, and witness the first hours of the plague that brings the dead back to life. REVIEW:  Back in the year 2014, filmmaker Emir Skalonja began producing his own horror films under the banner of FoxTrot Productions. Since then, with an effort that makes most …

SYNOPSIS: A man is left alone with his daughter who can’t speak due to a past trauma. REVIEW: “Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.” Plautus, ancient Roman playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) Guilt has haunted the mind of man since he first became self-aware. Guilt has sparked wars, crippled emperors, and has …

SYNOPSIS: Three years after the death of Frank’s wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall. REVIEW: Loss is powerful. It covers so many different aspects of our feelings for such a long time that it …

SYNOPSIS: After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace’s struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past. Battling the demons in her mind may be the only way to come out alive.

SYNOPSIS: After an industrial disaster, the world’s food and water supplies are contaminated. The rich and powerful retreat into fortified cities where life goes on, undisturbed by the starving masses outside their walls. While the outside world slides into unspeakable madness, Jacob, an idealistic citizen is on his way to the inner sanctum with others hell-bent on revolution when their …

SYNOPSIS: California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What’s more, his wife won’t answer his calls. It’s as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of …

SYNOPSIS: While living in complete isolation in the desert of southern California, a long forgotten shock-rock musician reflects on his dark past of drug abuse, violence, and self destruction. REVIEW: If you’ve ever had to remind yourself that what you’re watching is just a movie in order to stomach a violent scene or disturbing imagery – don’t watch this film; …

SYNOPSIS: Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is about to haunt her in a very violent way, as her past returns for revenge.  REVIEW: Ditch Day Massacre is Director Joe Hendrick’s first feature length …

SYNOPSIS: A vacation to the Ozarks turns upside-down when bull sharks somehow infiltrate Arkansas’ freshwater lakes and wreak havoc on a town’s big fireworks festival. 

SYNOPSIS: A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want. REVIEW: Grief is something that can drive people to do some rather crazy things, which is probably why it makes a good motivation for characters in horror films. When a person suffers a tragic …

SYNOPSIS: When a film student and her two friends go to Kern County to shoot a documentary, they stumble upon a mysterious family and learn why Pandora’s box should never have been opened.

SYNOPSIS: A couple hires a live-in nanny to watch their son while they work.  At first, everything goes perfectly, but when an unsafe incident means the parents no longer want the nanny around, they find out this nanny is savvy at not being evicted from her live-in situation. REVIEW: Born in New York, Evil Nanny’s director Jared Cohn is an …