Horror movie reviews artfully conducted by four classy broads and one token dude.

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274 | The Dead Thing

Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 34min
Directed by Elric Kane
Written by Elric Kane and Webb Wilcoxen
Stars: Blu Hunt, Ben Smith-Petersen and Katherine Hughes
Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival July 26, 2024
Released (limited) in US theaters February 11, 2025
RT: 83% critics / no audience score
Synopsis
A depressed young woman goes on a series of meaningless dates in Los Angeles. When she makes a connection with a man who then ghosts her, she begins to follow him and investigate his life.

Join us in two weeks when we review Sinners, which will be in theaters on April 18th.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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190 | Dementer

Written & Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle
Stars Katie Groshong, Stephanie Kinkle and Larry Fessenden
Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 20min
Premiered at Nashville Film Festival in Oct. 10, 2019
Released March 2, 2021
Available on VOD
RT: 83%
Synopsis: A woman named Katie, who appears to have run away from a dangerous cult, takes a job working as a caregiver at a group home for mentally disabled adults. She finds she takes to the job immediately, despite the upsetting flashbacks she suffers about her time with the cult. When one of her patients becomes ill, Katie begins to suspect that an evil spirit is behind it and uses the knowledge gained from the cult to attempt to rid her patient of the demon.

Join us next time when we will be covering The Queen of Black Magic - currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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174 | Willy's Wonderland

Directed by Kevin Lewis; From a screenplay written by: G.O. Parsons

Stars Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant

Released 2/12/2021

Available for rent on Amazon Prime

TV-MA

Runtime: 1hr 28mins

RT: 62% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis: When a man finds himself in a weird town after running over a spike strip and ruining all his tires, he’s offered the job of cleaning out the town’s cursed/closed themed restaurant, Willy’s Wonderland. What the man doesn’t know, however, is that the animatronic characters in the restaurant have a sordid past and come alive to do what they do best…KILL!

The horror world will never outrun zombies. But since it’s been a while since we’ve covered a zombie flick, if you join us next time, we’ll be reviewing the Netflix released, Army of the Dead.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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173 | Hunter Hunter

Written & Directed by Shawn Linden

Stars Camille Sullivan, Devon Sawa and Nick Stahl

Released December 18, 2020

Available on Hulu

Not Rated

Runtime: 1hr 33mins

RT: 94% critics, 66% audience

Synopsis: Joseph and Anne are a couple who live off the grid with their young daughter in the Canadian wilderness. They barely eke out a living by selling animal pelts at the local general store but their livelihood is threatened when their old enemy - a wolf - returns and begins stealing their trapped animals.

We decided that we needed something a little more Cagey for our next movie so we’ll be watching and reviewing Willy’s Wonderland. We smell an Oscaaarrrr!

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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172 | Come True

Directed by Anthony Scott Burns

Written by Anthony Scott Burns, based on a story by Daniel Weissenberger

Stars Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron and Carlee Ryski

Debuted at Fantasia Film Festival August 30, 2020

Released March 12, 2021

Available on VOD ($6.99)

Not Rated

Runtime: 1hr 45mins

RT: 86% critics, 67% audience

Synopsis: Homeless teenager Sarah enrolls in a sleep study to both have a place to stay and to attempt to understand her nightmares. The researchers are utilizing groundbreaking technology which records images from dreams, and they’re finding the same entity appearing in all of them - the shadow men.

Maybe we picked this next movie based solely on the fact that it stars 90’s heartthrob, Devon Sawa, and maybe we didn’t. Ok, we did. But Hunter Hunter also looks like a solid survivalist thriller and that theme is right up our alley.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Bloodlust Bites: The Price of Bones & Killer Friends (horror shorts)

Having taken home two Audience Awards at Dances With Films, Zach Noe Towers' clever dark comedy, Killer Friends, is scheduled for a week-long theatrical release at Laemmle Theaters (North Hollywood) from 9/2 to 9/8. Killer Friends is also eligible for an Academy Awards Oscar® nomination.

Samantha Kolesnik is the writer & producer of The Price of Bones, a story about two friends who go to extreme lengths to obtain "perfect" bodies. She founded Turning the Girl Productions, an emerging, lady-centric production company, in 2016.

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Written, Directed, & Produced by: Zach Noe Towers
Co-Directed by: Tina Carbone
Producers: Tina Carbone, Mark Brostoff, and Jenna-Lee Carreiro
Cinematography: James Sielaff
Makeup FX: Christina Chapman
Editing: Morgan Pritchard
Music: Jasha Klebe

Starring: Zach Noe Towers (Scott), Jenna-Lee Carreiro (Jill), Peggy Sinnott (Heather), and Dae Racki (Bryan).

Synopsis: Four friends take a camping trip that will end up turning their quartet into a trio.

ZNT Productions is currently seeking a distribution platform for Killer Friends, as well as investors for Meat Market, Zach Noe Towers' first feature film screenplay. Another horror/comedy/slasher, Meat Market follows a group of guys who are being hunted down, through a Grindr-esque app, and murdered. Zach Noe Towers can be reached at noetowers@gmail.com.

“Zach Noe Towers created a clever and funny slasher-esque short that makes me a bit wary of my upcoming camping trip with my fellow Bloodlust pals...”

— Jamie (@jamiestamp)

Killer Friends - Official Trailer

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Writer/Producer: Samantha Kolesnik
Director: Brandon Taylor
Produced by: Hollow Tree Films (Melissa Sherry, Michael Sherry, and Brandon Taylor)
Cinematography: Jesse Gouldsbury
SFX: Missy Scarbrough

Starring: Summerisa Bell Stevens (Caprise), Lisa Dennett (Mother), and Jordan Anton (Heather)

Synopsis: Two friends go to extreme lengths to obtain "perfect" bodies.

Samantha Kolesnik is the writer & producer of "The Price of Bones." She founded Turning the Girl Productions, an emerging, lady-centric production company, in 2016.

You can get in touch with Samantha at: turningthegirl@gmail.com

“We seek to produce works which showcase complex, revolutionary roles for women in film while telling dark, gritty stories of sociological import.””

— Samantha (http://www.turningthegirl.com/)

“Samantha Kolesnik and Brandon Taylor put together a well-crafted and uncomfortable piece of psychological horror that shows how scary the quest to ‘be thin’ can really be.”

— Jamie (@jamiestamp)