Before I’m Dead
Swing and a miss. Somewhat competent extended Twilight Zone episode, basically, in which a man retreats to his apartment after his wife is killed in front of him in a…
Mundane
Low-key but kind of charming indie sci-fi (barely), about a humanoid cyborg trying quietly to fit in in human society. Quirky without being annoyingly so. Has a wonderful avant-garde-leaning soundtrack…
Halloween (2018)
Ok, so, the big final blowout between Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers. It had to be BIG. And obviously they tried to make it good. It's a well-made movie,…
Candlewood
Nicely-shot but tough-to-believe thriller about a gorgeous city family moving to rural New England, having problems with the crusty locals and maybe hallucinating a little bit. Kind of a stinker.…
616 Wilford Lane
This movie stands out for having the most ridiculous plot twist I've ever seen. After starting out with an Amityville-inspired prelude saying that an archeological find has revealed that "the…
Habitat (2023)
The first 42 minutes of this ostensible sci-fi movie are a high-concept voiceover intro about aliens needing to test AI to mine gold on earth, and then people individually waking…
The Face In The Wall
Zero—possibly negative—budget flick about amateur filmmakers in NYC who discover a blank wall that reveals a face when seen through their camera, which leads them to bring in a psychic…
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Hangman (2015)
Pointlessly "found footage" account of a gorgeous family being harangued by intruders in their house after returning from a vacation to find it broken into. At this point these lazy…
The Snare (2017)
This movie is truly an odd bird. I believe the weaknesses outnumber the strengths, a flawed gem that's more flaw than gem, but I can't say it has absolutely nothing…
Trapped Inside My Sin
The kind of movie that a church group makes when they decide to make a "horror movie". Well, you gotta admire their commitment. I wonder how these things get on…
Alt Space
Indie flick. Billed as sci-fi but I didn't see that. Drug addicts or something. I couldn't follow it.
Don’t Run
Nebbishy teen has a monster in his house that won't let him leave at night, forces him to be in bed by sundown, and eats anyone who comes calling. Basically,…
Father Of Flies
Nicely shot but very pretentious and tediously slow movie about a family falling apart. Oh, yeah, maybe the last 30 minutes are a horror movie.
The Whispering Man
Ten minutes of a totally uninteresting YouTuber yammering at his phone was all I could take of this "movie".
The Changing Of Ben Moore
All the worst first-person shooter "found footage" horror cliches, wrapped around a nonsensical story about a man who whose face digitally distorts and he starts killing people when he sleepwalks,…
Tall Men
A young man who has just declared bankruptcy receives a mysterious charge card and buys a car, and becomes subject to usurious terms he can't afford. Mysterious threating individuals begin…
Night Eyes
A stressed woman goes to a coworkers secluded vacation home and her ex-boyfriend terrorizes her. Fairly by the numbers except there's a single time-loopy "twist" that doesn't even actually affect…
Expiry
British near-future dystopian sci-fi romance. A couple in a society where relationships are tightly regulated by electronic bracelets that control whether they can touch each other or not is informed…
Tear Us Apart
Rather violent but somewhat OK captivity/pursuit thriller. A couple goes to their marriage counselor's remote cabin in the woods to work through their grief at their young daughter's disappearance, but…
Caveat
This was a good one, could be a spooky low-key modern gothic horror classic. Effectively creepy and atmospheric all the way through in the best manner of well-done horror. A…
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…