Piper first published by SciFiNow A car speeds alongside woods in the rain at night. Inside Kerry Weiss (Alma Rix) tries to stay in command of the vehicle, while preventing her manically humming young son Matty (Jékabs Grigalis) from throwing himself onto the road. At the Hamelin hospital, Kerry – and Kerry alone – sees…
Sympathy for the Devil first published by SciFiNow, 25 July 2023 The title of Yuval Adler’s previous feature – The Secrets We Keep (2020) – might equally have served as a title for his latest, also starring Joel Kinnaman. For Sympathy for the Devil begins with a conversation about secrets. While a young boy says…
The Wait (La Espera) seen at Panic Fest 2024 “And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” This textual…
Baphomet Mountain opens with two paths crossing, whether by arbitrary accident or providential design. In his cowboy hat, Country Boy (Austin Burnette Mitchell) sits on a dusty roadside, playing guitar and singing a country song – with a blues lilt – whose lyrics (“Mama, daddy ain’t coming home tonight”) mark him as a man on…
“This story isn’t about truth, or love – this story is about sin.” says Aubrey Miller (Brenna Llewellyn) in voiceover near the beginning of The Sinners (aka The Color Rose). The film opens in medias res: Aubrey is on her knees praying when a car pulls up behind her, and six young women in masks…
First published by VODzilla.co “This isn’t hell, this is Holland,” says the ever-sceptical Douglas (Patrick Baladi), an English businessman who has suddenly taken his son Curt (Adam Thomas Wright) out of school for a tour of the Netherlands, and who is always being distracted by his mobile phone. Douglas sure did not believe young Australian…