Bone Lake first published by SciFiNow, for its UK première at FrightFest 2025, Sunday 24 August The opening of Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s Bone Lake, scripted by Joshua Friedlander, resonates with the beginning of the Old Testament, as a naked man and woman (Clayton Spencer and Eliane Reis) are seen running hand in hand through an…
Sheryl seen at Panic Fest 2024 Writer/director Justin Best’s Sheryl opens to a close-shot, giallo-lit montage of a woman donning various layers of mask: carefully applied eye make-up, styled hair, coloured lipstick, painted and filed nails, an elegant dress, high heels, and finally an actual mask, all cut to the percussive female rap of Tinamina’s Dead…
He Never Left had its international première on Friday 27th Oct at the Halloween FrightFest As text reveals at the beginning of He Never Left, a masked menace known as the “Pale Face” killer terrorised Larsen City (‘played’ by Fairview, Utah) for over a decade, before suddenly all the murders and disappearances stopped dead in…
Suburbia & The Boys Next Door first published by Little White Lies, as entry 135 of my Cinema Psychotronicum column “May 10th, 1968. Mark and I are going to be very happy here. The air is clean, skies are blue, and all the houses are brand new and beautiful. They call it suburbia and that…
When The Screaming Starts first published by VODzilla.co “I’m Norman Graybridge. A two-time award-winning documentary filmmaker. I’ve achieved great success in unearthing groundbreaking stories in people living on the fringes of society. So when I stumbled upon Aidan Mendle in the darker recesses of the internet, and learned of his twisted dream, I knew I’d found…
Extracurricular first published by SciFiNow Extracurricular opens with Ray (Jean Paul Najm) and his newly pregnant girlfriend Gina (Madeleine Claude), arriving for a weekend break at that seminal locus of genre cinema, a cabin in the woods. At this point, there are all manner of horror directions in which the film could go. Ray casually…
“I am an American, and I killed Americans. I am a human being, and I killed human beings. And I did it in my society.” The speaker is Edmund Kemper, a serial killer, rapist, necrophile and cannibal, arrested in 1973 shortly after calling the police to turn himself in, and here interviewed in his prison…