A woman along with her husband moves into an old house where strange phenomena ocurs right after her son fall s into a comma.
A few months ago Hannah Sloan was in a horrible car accident, leaving her son Daniel in an extended coma. With hopes of putting their recent tragedy behind them Hannah and her husband Graham, move into their recently purchased farm home. Suffering extreme feelings of guilt and responsibility for her son’s condition, Hannah turns to her prescribed anti-depressants to bring her comfort. Soon after moving in to their new home Hannah begins witnessing strange and mysterious occurrences causing Graham to become increasingly concerned with the quantity of medications that Hannah is taking. Is Hannah losing her mind, or are there supernatural forces at work?
“The story starts off well enough and has some interesting characters. The cast all play their parts well and you do get a sense of empathy with the guilt and loss that the main characters are feeling.” – Letterboxd
“This film is surprisingly good. Very decent acting all around, truly interesting storyline, and direction which kept the pace moving near perfectly. The lead actress is very good.” – Amazon
“The acting is great (especially the performance of Fairuza Balk), actors behave like actual real people, they really fit their roles. Directing and editing are well done. It’s certainly recommended for rental or having in collection.” – Sasha Darko
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Devil’s Mercy, The
The Winters move to Connecticut where they meet their new downstairs neighbors Tyler Grant and his niece Kayla.
They soon have to face the fact that there may be something sinister going on within their perfect house. When their six year old son Calvin becomes increasingly anxious around the Grants his mother dismisses it as just her son s active imagination but soon has to face the fact that there may be something sinister going on within their perfect house.
“Psychologically suspenseful. It’s a solidly executed film with some great lensing by cinematographer Joe Turner augmented by James Villeneuve’s editing. Thus, ultimately, The Devil’s Mercy is a film that should appeal to devotees of the genre.” – Film Intuition
“Horror Movie B film, but very well executed. Admittedly one of the better I have seen in a while. As the movie progresses motives become clear and the mystery of what is happening is fully explained. This movie is definitely worth a watch.” – Horror Critic
“Devil’s Mercy is the sort of conventional scary movie with enough shocking inventive surprises in store.” – Newsblaze
Beast No More
A young mother and scientist, whose world is disturbingly turned upside down when she loses her son in a tragic accident, is offered the chance to be a mother again. Only it comes at a cost, and with an unnerving twist.
A young biologist, Mary Jane, who focuses on lepidoptery (the study of moths and butterflies), doesn’t have the perfect life; she does however have what she considers the perfect son. Tragedy strikes and Mary Jane’s world is disturbingly turned upside down. Fleeing the troubled “real world” she embarks upon a solitary bush project. In the isolated and surreal landscape Mary Jane starts experiencing strange phenomena. The opportunity to be a mother again presents itself, only it comes at a cost for Mary Jane and what’s left of her family.
“’Beast No More’ is held together by a superb performance of depth and complexity by Jessica Tovey. It is a very unconventional, character driven, human horror. I really would not hesitate in recommending it, even to non-horror fans, especially to those looking for something different.” – The Bloody Asylum
“Thanks to its energetic pacing, ’Beast No More’ remains intriguing throughout the 85-minute runtime. No one ever stays in one place for long, and that works well with the shaky-footage-in-the-woods style.” – Nightmarish Conjurings
“Journey of pain and of transition. A transition of human pain into beastly behavior fueled by the desire to no longer feel consumed by grief and suffering. ’Beast No More’ brings the beast to the light and is worth your time.” – Horror Buzz
Heartstopper
Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff.
Savage serial killer Chambers is arrested by Sheriff Berger sentenced to death in the electric chair. After his execution, it seems the world is a little safer — until the body is brought to the hospital morgue, where it’s reanimated by a murderous demon. The possessed Chambers sets his sights on Sara, a suicidal teen in the hospital, while Walter, another young patient from the ward, tries to protect her.
“Englund returns as a kindly sheriff in this well-made, supernatural slasher film.” – Combustible Celluloid
“I’m sure that the gore hounds out there will groove on this. Some of the gore is downright spectacular.” – Krell Laboratories
“’Heartstopper’ is one of those likeable horror films. It’s a fun situation horror romp, filled with gruesome deaths, the perfect setting, and some surprisingly strong performances.” – Horror Movies &stuff
Dead Mary
A group of friends enjoying a weekend in the woods play a game of “Dead Mary” and summon an evil witch who begins possessing them one by one.
Kim and her boyfriend Matt have just broken up, but they travel together to a cottage nearby a lake to spend the weekend with their friends Eve, Dash and his wife Amber and Baker and his new girlfriend Lily. The atmosphere becomes heavy with the situation between Kim and Matt, and one of them suggests them to play “Dead Mary”. Matt, Eve and Dash summon the evil witch repeating her name three times in front of a mirror with a candle. Along the night, Matt hears weird noises, is killed and returns to life, while part of the group is possessed by the fiend. Without knowing who is possessed, the rest of the group fights to survive.
“I found it unexpected and it did make what I at first thought a predictable movie, interesting. Let’s just say that ’Dead Mary’ is like ’Cabin Fever’ meets ’Evil Dead’ meets ’Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. Highly recommended.” – Buried.com
“The interactions between the characters are really interesting. Everybody has secrets and they’re all being sneaky, so when people start getting possessed by demons it adds another layer of paranoia to a bunch of already distrusting characters. Above average imitation of a classic with some new elements.” – Letterboxd
“It’s another one that reminds me how good, effective horror doesn’t have to be big budget. ’Dead Mary’ is an off-the-radar, lesser known gem of low-budget horror worth seeing.” – Space Jockey Reviews
Cradle, The
In an attempt to shake his wife out of her illness, Frank moves the family to a quiet new home away from people. Eventually, strange events start happening around their baby, and soon Frank becomes very leery of their only neighbor.
When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family. When he discovers they are being tortured by the vengeful spirit of a child that was buried alive years earlier, Frank is pushed to the brink of madness as he tries to stop the ghost and save his dying family.
“It’s one of those films where in the end they show you a copulation of all the clues that you missed while watching! If you like a good “quiet”/subtle type of horror movie combined with a good vengeful spirit then this is a film for you!” – Letterboxd
“I found this movie to be really intelligent about the exploration of what it means to be well and truly lost in suffering to the point of breaking off mentally. This movie makes you work for the thrill by actually thinking about it, and is scarier after you finish watching it than it is during. I loved it.” – MovieChat
“This film is a surprisingly effective and creepy little masterpiece that is a cut above its peers. Most horror films made on a shoestring budget and with a small cast such as this one are substandard, but it works in this case, creating an unsettling realistic feel.” – IMDb
Bottom Feeder
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
A famous geneticist is hired by a billionaire burn victim to develop a serum to regenerate dying cells. The geneticist ends up producing more theories than results and gets an overdose of his own medicine forced into his jugular. He is thrown into the cellar of an old hospital and left to survive off nothing but rats. The side effects of his overdose make him acquire the genetic traits of his food and he begins mutating into a Rat-Man.
“There’s the evil rich guy who gets what he deserves, the masochistic government operatives, the anti-hero who happens to have some handy skills for wiring bombs, and your usual stock characters. ‘Bottom Feeder’ is a good, old-fashioned monster movie.” – Buried.com
“’Bottom Feeder’ is worth a look if you’re in the mood for a monster movie. It’s always nice to have a good actor show up to wreak havoc on evil abominations. Any movie is better with a little Sizemore in it.” – Dr. Gore’s movie reviews
“’Bottom Feeder’ did have some clever dialog in spots and showed what can be done with a little imagination and few resources. Plus it had Tom Sizemore in it, and having not only an accomplished actor, but a ‘good’ accomplished actor in your production, is always a good thing.” – Film Critics United
Tabula Rasa
In the gripping psychological thriller series, the young dancer Mie loses her memory in an accident. What happened – does she have anything to do with the disappearance of a man?
What if you can’t trust anyone, least of all yourself? “Tabula Rasa” is a psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a psychiatric hospital. She is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers, who claims that she was the last person to be seen with Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she could hold the key to his mysterious disappearance.
“It’s a fascinating, compelling puzzle, one that keeps you guessing and scared all at once. You’ll soon be sucked into all the creepy corners of Mie’s evil home and the people around her who don’t believe a single thing she says about what she’s seeing.” – Decider
“’Tabula Rasa’ is a disarmingly good psychological chiller about an amnesiac witness, which has echoes of those fine 50s films about a blind/damaged/amnesiac women disbelieved by all around her.” – The Guardian
“A tangled combination of haunted house horror and a missing person mystery. There are zigzagging timelines, curious red dust, a three-legged cat, and nothing, not even the cat, may be what it seems.” – Los Angeles Times
UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine
Four people decide to join the army as it appears to be their best option. However, it turns out the army only plans on turning them into ultimate killing machines, they must fight back and save themselves.
At the Millhaven Research Facility, an experimental serum to create the perfect soldier works too well on Sgt. Dodds, a war hero who becomes a murderous killing machine. Locking him up in the basement, Army Maj. Blevins and scientists Stroheim and Lena begin experimenting on four recent, useless Army recruits. The tests transform the losers and misfits into super-humans, who must then defeat Dodds when he escapes.
“The Ultimate Killing Machine is a spectacular B name. A fun struggle for survival, interwoven with occasional humor and bloody deaths.” – HorrorHR
“Pretty good movie, it was a very actiony type of horror. This is a good draft, and it has some great ideas.” – Rotten Tomatoes
“The initial encounter in the maze underground is pretty tense, and the chase through the corridors is something to be admired for its great ability to be really creepy, as the dimly-lit layout, disorienting nature and off-screen noises all make for some great sequences.” – IMDb
Torture Chamber
Members of a religious community try to save the soul of a possessed boy and his child cohorts after he escapes from an asylum and starts murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Thirteen-year-old Jimmy Morgan is possessed by an evil too powerful to be exorcised by any religion. After escaping from a mental institution, Jimmy is back with a vengeance – and an army of children who follow his every murderous desire. The town trembles in fear as the youths attack and abduct its residents – innocent and guilty alike – dragging their victims to an abandoned castle and subjecting them to grisly torments deep within its underground tunnels. Those who discover the terrible secret behind the disappearances and deaths don’t live long enough to tell it. The teacher, the doctor, even Jimmy’s own brother and mother, will all confront their fates…
„’Torture Chamber’ does something that not every film is able to do: It both makes a statement and entertains. It’s easy for a film to do one or the other but more of a challenge for a filmmaker to create a piece of work that makes a profound statement and simultaneously entertains. This is a challenge that Dante Tomaselli has risen to and triumphed over.“ – Aisle Seat
„’Torture Chamber’ is a deep horror with underlining meanings which will differ with each viewer. Whatever you think ’Torture Chamber’ means, it is a visual and sensual masterpiece of highly original ideas and inventive horror that deserves its place as a cult classic.“ – Horror Cult Films
„Tomaselli sustains a steady, surreal, dream-like state with purely practical effects, and by relying on lighting, basic editing tricks, and sound – rich value that can be extracted from classic skills and eerie locations rather than digital trickery. ’Torture Chamber’ is near-perfect, and there are some genuinely gorgeous visuals throughout.“ – KQEK.com
5ive Girls
Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
In St. Marks catholic boarding school for girls, the religious student Elizabeth is attacked by evil forces and disappears from the classroom. The school is closed and five years later it is reopened. Five troubled unwanted girls – Alex, Mara, Cecilia, Leah and Connie – are left by their family in the institution, severely directed by the headmistress Miss Pearce. Alex has visions of the possessed Elizabeth, weird things happen in the spot and the girls have to fight against a legion of two thousand demons.
“As the movie unfolds, we learn that each one has a special power, adding a new dimension to their characters while, at the same time, taking the story in a direction I didn’t anticipate. Thanks to the girls themselves, as well as the always interesting Ron Perlman as Father Drake, ‘5ive Girls’ is an independent horror movie that’s a cut above the standard fare.” – 2,500 Movies Challenge
“This one was a really above-average film. One of the finer aspects of this one is the fact that changes the way a possession takes place which is a nice specialty. Really recommended for those who enjoy the genre.” – Don’s World of Horror and Exploitation
“It’s a fun film and I quite enjoyed watching it. It’s pacey and fast-moving, surprisingly violent at points and there are some reasonable scares.” – Horror DNA
Final Draft
An aspiring screenwriter trying to write a new horror script finds himself mentally breaking down after days of isolation in his apartment.
Paul is commissioned to write a screenplay about a dream he had involving a clown. Unfortunately, he has only 18 days to complete the script. Starting off, Paul has a writer’s block and comes up with the idea of locking himself in his apartment in order to concentrate. As Paul continues to write the story, he begins to hallucinate and experience terrifying things. Soon his reality becomes mixed with fantasy and he begins to lose all sanity.
“The film itself is interesting as it incorporates very subtle eerie scenes. ‘Final Draft’ is a slow-paced psychological horror film which offers an interesting story about a man who loses his mind and reflects on his past.” – Grave Reviews
“It’s really not the average horror flick. In fact it’s more of a psycho drama. I think they really came at it from a unique perspective, not that revenge and pay back is anything new, but the way they went about it with the clown symbolism, was somewhat unique.” – Amazon
“’Draft’ is a smart, well crafted movie. Director Jonathan Dueck does an interesting job selling Paul’s trip into la la land. The script is very good, as well as the directing and Van Der Beek is doing a sound job of carrying much of the movie.” – Horror DNA