First published by TwitchFilm Against a backdrop of impending global nuclear war, graduate paranormal investigator Tam (Lachlan Nieboer) and his girlfriend Rose (Lisa Kerr) head to an isolated fourteenth-century property in Dartmoor. Their aim is to stay one night and detect any unusual activity with a panoply of cameras and other devices, but as things…
First published by TwitchFilm If one thing is certain in life, it is that none of us will survive it. With the end already written into every breath we take, who we are is defined by what we do with our brief time here. Such ethical and eschatological concerns are presented in intensified form by…
First published by TwitchFilm “You have to keep it all in fantasy,” Chanel (Monda Scott) advises new pole/lap dancer Venus (Alexis Kendra). “You just have to be dripping with sex.” Chanel (not her real name) is instructing the novice in how best to fleece male clients of their money, but in fact it is love…
Anguish first published by TwitchFilm A mother Sarah (Karina Logue) and her teenaged daughter Lucy (Amberley Gridley) are out driving. “It’s not fair!” complains Lucy, upset about the boundaries being imposed on her adolescent conduct – which leads Sarah to cite the traditional saying amongst the womenfolk in her family: “If your aunt had a moustache,…
First published by TwitchFilm “Just try to think of it as a game. It’ll help.” This is how the unnamed Gunner (Mekhi Phifer) describes to his four-person unit’s new doctor Lauren Chase (Rachel Nichols) the best mental attitude to adopt while beating people off their moving armoured bus with a baseball bat. Gunner is likewise…
First published by TwitchFilm A young woman runs laughing in a field – and in a blur. “Catch me!”, she shouts, eluding both her addressee and even the camera’s focus. Sunlit, soft and slo-mo, the opening images of Anthony Stabley’s Everlasting may suggest something ideal and Edenic – and yet these are also the genesis…
First published by TwitchFilm.com In Marc Forster’s World War Z (2013), the Jerusalem sequence – which was in fact not even shot in Jerusalem – offered a clumsily Islamophobic allegory of local politics for an American audience, with its zombies figured as monomaniacal Middle Eastern hordes trying to break though a giant encircling barrier reminiscent – and…
First published by TwitchFilm “It seems sort of like a zombie apocalypse!”, observes Deb Clarington (Maria Thayer), quickly assessing the situation around her and unhesitantly taking appropriate action where so many other heroes and heroines in this genre spend half their film just working out what’s what. Not that her savviness always pays off. “You…
The Sand first published by TwitchFilm The morning after a night of hardy partying on a secluded beach, several co-eds awaken not just to the usual hangovers, erotic regrets, post-prank headaches and relationship recriminations, but also to the realisation that all their other friends have mysteriously vanished, and that, beneath the sand that surrounds them,…
Some Kind of Hate first published by TwitchFilm After finally standing up for himself against a vicious bully, troubled teen Lincoln (Ronen Rubinstein) is sent to a New Age reform school in the Californian desert, where he is quick to find himself the target of further bullying. In a moment of frustrated anger, he accidentally summons…
Bloodsucking Bastards (aka Bloodsucking Bosses) first published by TwitchFilm Industrious, dedicated but wishywashy, Evan (Fran Kranz) wishes he had replied ‘yes’ instead of ‘no’ after his girlfriend Amanda (Emma Fitzpatrick), from Human Resources, declared her love to him. When the floor boss Ted (Joel Murray) brings in Evan’s old college rival Max (Pedro Pascal) and…