Bluejay (2016)
Promising but ultimately disappointing thriller on the "pursuit" end of the captivity/pursuit flick spectrum. Annoying mountaineer drags a woman he just met onto a grueling hike up Mr Whitney, where…
Silent Panic
Surprisingly decent zero-budget indie drama that starts like it's going to be a crap thriller but slowly and smoothly transitions to something quieter and more thoughtful. Three friends' relationships with…
Blame (2021)
Five kids run out of gas in a snorwstorm and take shelter in an empty building, and things fall apart after one turns up dead. Thriller plays like a horror…
Unsheltered
If I tell you five college students shelter from a hurricane in an abandoned junkyard and are hunted down by the most thinly-drawn villain in all of horror movie history…
Last Night On Earth
An alright thriller. A gorgeous couple leaves the city to await the destruction of the earth by an asteroid in a remote Tennessee backwoods campsite. Things get complicated as other…
End Times
Gorgeous couple wanders through an apocalyptic landscape full of viral outbreak zombies, encountering other gorgeous survivors of questionable intentions in, essentially, a "Walking Dead" episode. Lead actress Jamie Bernadette, who…
Prey (2019)
In one of a million movies named "Prey", a young man on a survival retreat on a deserted island funs afoul of mysterious georgeous women apparently living there nad some…
Feed The Devil
Kids get lost in the Alaskan woods looking for a pot patch and run afoul of... a Native American psychopath? A Native American spirit? Unsure, but it's Native American, and…
Fright Night
Caught this on Tubi about 40 years after having last seen it in the theaters and not remembering a thing about it (In fact, I'm not even sure I saw…
Don’t Break The Rules
This movie starts with a man slumped at the front gate of a cabin. An older man stands in front of him, watching him impassively, as he pleads, "I didn't…
House Of 1,000 Corpses
The lame, derivative captivity flick id Rob Zombie's debut feature, and the only things worse than a piece of garbage: a piece of garbage that tries to make up for…
Bonded By Blood
Talk about a disappointing swing and a miss. This 2/3-interesting... family drama? Sci-fi thriller? I'm not sure... about a young couple whose son is murdered, and then see a chance…
Trust
A young Liana Liberato punches way above her weight in a heavy but decent family drama about the emotional fallout on her family from her abuse by a predator. Probably…
No Such Thing As Monsters
Captivity flick. A couple camping at remote campsite in the Australian woods are unexpectedly joined by a van full of fairly typical Australian women and have what I imagine to…
The Circle
One of those movies where a non-"blockbuster" movies manages to get a bunch of big stars—Emma Watson, Glenne Headley, Tom Hanks, Fielding Mellish, er, Patton Oswalt, Karen Gillan—and it really…
Colossal
Anne Hathaway in a middle-of-the-road lost-twentysomething-returns-to-her-hometown-to-find-herself-and-gets-involved-with-old-friends-but-things-are-different-picture, except, this hometown happens to have a magic playground where anybody who is in it at a certain time of day has a gigantic…
Brain Dead (2007)
Strictly sub-"USA Up All Nite"-quality garbage splatstick "horror comedy" garbage about an assortment of cardboard-cutout cliche characters stuck in a cabin while an amoeba from space infects people outside, turning…
All Eyes
This is a fun movie, in its way. I actually watched it twice because I forgot to review it the first time, but once I realized I recognized it, I…
Awake In The Woods
Bottom-of-the-barrel mockumentary about people who have been driven insane after disappearing in the woods for a while. I'd say the acting is the worst acting I've ever seen but that…
The Arbors
Surprisingly alright creature feature. A young man finds an insect-like creature that bonds with him and begins killing people that stand in his way. I know, that doesn't sound very…
Archons
Middling horror thriller about a band of rock & rollers taking a canoe trip and dropping acid in the woods when they think they spot something following them through the…
Loop Track
Decently ok Kiwi horror film about a neurotic hiker who falls in with a bunch of other hikers in the remove wilderness and starts making everybody crazy with paranoia about…
The Dead (2010)
Extremely decent zombie movie, the way they should be done. An American mercenary survives the crash of the last place out of Africa, and must walk across the zombie-infested savannah…
Eden Log
Putting this here so I remember to watch this one again. This came on via autoplay when something I was watching on Tubi ended and I was so distracted by…
Haunted Boat
A group of friends go out on a boat, wind up adrift, and random "scary" stuff happens which is never explained. Actually I kind of enjoyed it mildly, for a…
The Legend Of Lake Hollow
Paint-by-numbers supernatural thriller about a group of friends who rent a secluded cabin and something seems to want them off the land. Weird people appear, voices, you know the drill.
The Encounter (2016)
First-person shooter, "aliens chasing people" through the woods subgenera. (Woods where literally every single person who enters them is always filming, apparently.) Yawn.
The Changed
People are holed up in a suburban house as everyone outside is slowly "changed", taken over by an alien life form or some such—or, as it's described by the people…
The Unwilling
A scary box possesses a family who has gathered for the reading of their father's will one-by-one and kills them. Pretty bad despite good production values and a familiar cast…
Destination Marfa
Poor-to-middling "Twilight Zone"-esque take of four travelers trapped in Marfa, Texas. Not badly produced by kind of clumsy... odd editing choices, weird occasionally voiceovers out of nowhere, etc. Meh.