Tommy & Austin Tilden are father & son coroners who have the body of a Jane Doe delivered to their home-morgue after the police discover it half-buried in the cellar at the scene of an already gruesome & very confusing crime scene. The pair realize there are some serious abnormalities with their corpse before they even cut her open. Her wrists & ankles appear to be broken, but there are no marks on her body. And it just gets weirder from there.
Director/Writer: Nicolas Pesce
Stars: Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Olivia Bond
Synopsis: Little Francisca lives on a remote farm with her Portuguese-transplant mother & taciturn father. She idolizes her mother, a former surgeon who is seen teaching her about her namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, & giving her anatomy lessons using the local cows. An act of violence is the catalyst which influences Francisca’s psychologically damaged development into very lonely adulthood. The movie progresses towards an inevitable conclusion as Francisca becomes increasingly desperate for companionship in addition to becoming more & more unhinged.
Our dear pal Becky (@bexbz) joins us for this review.
Join us next time as we review The Autopsy of Jane Doe. This was a late additon to the 2016 horror club but was totally worth the wait. It's available for rent so check it out and listen in for our review.
Director/Writer: Oz Perkins
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban
Synopsis: A young woman takes a job as a live-in hospice nurse for an elderly novelist. The longer she stays in the dying woman's home, the closer she comes to learning the identity of the author's muse. It's a truth far scarier than fiction.
Join us next time when we discuss and review the recent, indie thriller, The Eyes of my Mother. The directorial debut from total newbie, Nicolas Pesce, this movie is sure to make more than a few "Top 10 of 2016" lists. The Eyes of My Mother is current available on VOD, or for rent on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.
Director: David Yates
Writer: J.K. Rowling
Stars: Eddie Redmayne (Newt), Katherine Waterson (Tina), Alison Sudol (Queenie), Dan Folger (Kowalski), Colin Farrell (Graves), Ezra Miller (Credence), Ron Perlman, Johnny Depp
Synopsis: Shy and awkward wizard, Newt Scamander, travels from the UK to New York, with plans to make it to the exotic land of Arizona so he can release his precious Thunderbird, Frank, back to the wild. He is shocked to learn that American wizards have very different - and much more strict - rules regarding magical beasts and interactions with no-majs (the American version of muggle). When a few magical beasts escape from his suitcase, Newt and his new friends Tina, Jacob, and Queenie work together to track them all down. But there’s something much more dangerous threatening not only the lives of no-majs, but the exposure of the wizarding world in America.
During the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, a woman and her daughter are left alone in their Tehran apartment, while her husband serves in the military. After other tenants in the apartment building decide to move north in an attempt to escape the likely destruction of Tehran, Shideh goes against the wishes of her husband and remains in the apartment, despite the danger. But it isn't just bombs that Shideh and her daughter have to be afraid of. There seems to be a malevolent force in the apartment, intent on taking everything from them.
Want to skip the small talk? We start the review at 00:12:15
A prequel to the first movie, in which we learn more about the previous owners of the house. Set in 1967. Alice, along with her two daughters Lina & Doris, is struggling to make ends meet after the death of her husband. She runs a fortune-telling business out of her home, & her daughters assist her in fooling their customers with trick cabinets, candles that go out at will, etc. Things start to get real when Alice decides to add a Ouija board into her act. It’s youngest daughter, Doris, who seems to have a real knack for using the board.
20 years after the footage was found that made up The Blair Witch Project, Heather’s much younger brother, James, travels to Burkittsvile, Maryland in search of the truth about what happened to her. He is joined by friends Ashley, Peter & Lisa, who has made James’s search the subject of her school documentary project. The group meets up with a couple in Burkittsville through the internet who claim to have found a tape containing footage shot by someone who appears to be Heather. The couple, Lane & Talia, insist on joining the group on their trip into the woods in exchange for leading them to the spot where the videotape was found.
A trio of pals with a passion for burglary, decide to break into the home of a supposedly wealthy blind man. What is supposed to be an easy heist turns out to be way more than they bargained for.
In this episode, The Bloodlust talks about buff, older dudes, using the crumbling bits of Detroit as set pieces for horror, and the many uses of a turkey baster...
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