Holistay
An AirBnB in San Diego is accidentally double-booked by an Irish couple and a couple from New York who are actually criminals on the run. Billed as a supernatural thriller,…
The God Inside My Ear
Painfully indie, poorly acted movie that I bet was filmed in Brooklyn. A girl... I don't know. She bleeds from the ears, she goes on blind dates with the worst…
Et tu
What starts out as a really excellent pitch-black comedy about a production of "Julius Caesar" gone murderously wrong loses the thread about halfway through. For the first half it was…
Infestation
I wish I could like this movie. A zero-budget indie tries hard to be a paranoid UFO invasion/conspiracy thriller, and as the movie goes on and they give her some…
Poltergeist (2015 remake)
A not terrible but mostly forgettable updating and downgrading of the original, to include smartphones and LCD TV (which somehow still have horizontal scan lines and white noise static—the TVs…
Door In The Woods
Paint-by-numbers supernatural thriller. Family brings home a haunted artifact, in this case a door they found in the woods, and must call in a psychic to rescue their young son…
The Playground
Amateurish, zero-budget attempt at a thriller. I can't even really follow the plot, this guy gets broken out of jail, now he owes someone some money, this little girl is…
Let’s Dream
Everybody ... stares ... looking ... concerned. And ... talks ... very ... slowly. What ... are ... they ... saying? I ... don't ... know ... because ... this…
Our Neighbors Shadow
Actually fairly well-acted for a zero-budget thriller, but too talky and contrived for what story there is to really work. A young husband and expectant father does drugs and passes…
Adalynn
Gorgeous young mother suffering from postpartum depression left alone to watch the baby for a few days while husband is on a business trip hallucinates that Every Bad Thing thing…
The Cobbler’s Wife
This feels like a pilot episode of an anthology sci-fi show that wasn't picked up, and at 1 hr 1 minute long, it probably is. A lonely shoemaker builds a…
After She Wakes
Actually not bad supernatural thriller about woman who experiences night terrors, and possibly a visit from a demon, after accidentally killing her infant son in a car accident. Not great…
Abaddon’s Pit
Supernatural flick starts pretty interesting and then totally loses the thread. A man who feels responsible for the car crash that kills his wife discovers a triangular and apparently bottomless…
Superterranean
One of the most boring "thrillers" I've ever seen. An injured climber in Scotland wakes up in a mountain shelter. He tends to his injuries, and in a few minutes…
The Human Hibernation
This is sure to be a polarizing film. More a montage than a story, with plenty of very long, unhurried (and beautifully shot) nature shots, this film depicts a version…
Empathy, Inc.
Sometimes I stumble onto a treat. A company invents VR technology to allow rich people to experience life from the viewpoint of someone more disadvantages. To say more about the…
Among Us
Not absolutely terrible haunted house movie. Couple recovering from the death of their son is haunted by... it's not clear, but something. Also, seems to be set in basically a…
Body Keepers
Subpar teen scream. Two little kids disappear when their mom isn't looking, then bunch of teenagers go to get a wheelbarrow from a shed where a body is being kept…
Obsidian (2020)
Patients at a medical clinic trial an experimental drug that cures their permanent injuries... at first. Sub-USA-Up-All-Nite bottom-of-the-barrel zero-budget amateur-made flick turns out to be, weirdly, not a 100% terrible…
Red River Road
This movie proves skilled direction and acting can save a movie from ludicrous writing... until they don't. This movie starts with a family having moved to a rural home to…
True Dark
Totally amateur, exceptionally long, very-poorly-acted sci-fi story about a man in a hawaiian shirt, not at all believable as a researcher but more likely just whoever they could cast, who…
New Order (2012)
Scientist pandemic something something. 8 minutes of the most egregious "found footage" cliches were enough to get me to turn it off.
The Capture (2017)
Disappointing sci-fi aims for the bleachers and then bunts. Scientists find a way to bring a person back from the afterlife, spend the entire movie arguing about ethics because the…
In April
This is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen... to a point. This movie about a suicidal man driving around in a car looking for an opportunity to kill…
Indiscretions
This "thriller" is in every way like a porn flick without any sex. These people are obviously not actors, and are as stiff as if they're reading lines off cue…
Dimland
Truly strange—this is a very talky, amateurish, artsy and extremely pretentious zero-budget indie flick with little plot, dislikeable characters and not much acting to speak of... and yet, somehow, it…
Dream Scenario
Odd swing-and-a-miss featuring a miscast Nic Cage as a dorky college professor who begins turning up in millions of people's dreams around the world, bringing him unwanted fame. Starts out…
Harbinger Down
"Alien" in a boat. Vaguely watchable sci-fi/horror action adventure, if derivative. Stars Lance Henriksen as the Captain. He is the last character to die, meaning this may be a horror…
Light (2024)
Seems like a BBC production. "Talky" doesn't cover for this sci-fi "thriller" that is literally entirely talk. Two astronauts wander through a dark fog depicting the surface of a planet…
Katernica
A hopelessly pretentious amateur production apparently about an actress wanting to stage a cursed one-act play—I got that by looking it up online, because I sure couldn't tell from watching…