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Almost Human

Filmed, Written & Directed by Joe Begos Produced by Begos, Anthony Ambrosino & Ethier Released by IFC Midnight USA. 80 min. Not rated With Graham Skipper, Vanessa Leigh, Josh Ethier, Michael Locicero & Susan T. Travers The slasher film Almost Human starts off with a jolt of adrenaline as a young man, Mark (Josh Ethier), […]

Here Comes the Devil

Written & Directed by Adrián García Bogliano Produced by Andrea Quiroz Hernández Released by Magnet Releasing Spanish with English subtitles Mexico. 97 min. Not rated With Laura Caro, Francisco Barreiro, Michele Garcia, Alan Martinez, David Cabezud & Giancarlo Ruiz Aside from a curt synopsis, I had no idea what to expect from this film. I […]

The Last Days on Mars

Directed by Ruairi Robinson Written by Clive Dawson, based on the short story “The Animators” by Sydney J. Bounds Produced by Michael Kuhn & Andrea Cornwell Released by Magnet Releasing UK/Ireland. 98 min. Rated R With Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams & Johnny Harris Last Days on Mars has a crisis of […]

Birth of the Living Dead

Edited, Written, Produced & Directed  by Rob Kuhns Released by First Run Features USA. 76 Minutes, Not rated Feat George Romero, Elvis Mitchell & Larry Fessenden The first thing you must know before you see this documentary about the cultural impact of 1968’s Night of the Living Dead is that it’s not necessary in the […]

The Visitor (1979)

Directed by Giulio Paradisio Written by Paradisi, Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi & Ovidio Assonitis Produced by Assonitis Released by Drafthouse Films With Paige Conner, Joanne Nail, Lance Henricksen, Mel Ferrer, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford & Sam Peckinpah Distributor Drafthouse Films is out to find the weird, the bizarre, the off-kilter (to say the […]

We Are What We Are

Directed by Jim Mickle Written by Mickle & Nick Damici, based on the film We Are What We Are, directed by Jorge Michel Grau Produced by Andrew Corkin, Nicholas Shumaker, Jack Turner & Rodrigo Bellott Released by Entertainment One USA. 104 min. Rated R With Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell, Kassie DePaiva, […]

Cockneys vs. Zombies

Directed by Matthias Hoene Written by James Moran & Lucas Roche Produced by James Harris Released by Shout Factory UK. 88 min. Not rated With Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Alan Ford, Ashley Thomas, Honor Blackman, Rasmus Hardiker & Georgia King From years back, you might remember a little movie called Shaun of the Dead, where […]

Byzantium

Directed by Neil Jordan Written by Moira Buffini, based on her play A Vampire Story Produced by Stephen Woolley, Alan Moloney, Elizabeth Karlsen, William D. Johnson & Samuel Englebardt Released by IFC Films UK/USA/Ireland. 118 min. Rated R With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays & Caleb Landry Jones Eleanor […]

Aftershock

Directed by Nicolás López Produced by Eli Roth, Brian Oliver & Miguel Asensio Llamas Written by Eli Roth, Nicolás López & Guillermo Amoedo Released by Radius-TWC English & Spanish with English subtitles USA/Chile. 90 min. Rated R With Lorenza Izzo, Nicolás Martinéz, Eli Roth, Natasha Yarovenko, Ariel Levy & Andrea Osvárt In Aftershock, Hostel mastermind […]