Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Sitter’: Cat-sitting nightmare becomes a Satanic trap
Charlotte (Aisling Knight), a college student studying psychology, is offered a pretty obscene amount of money (200 pounds a night โ roughly $258 U.S.) to stay three nights in a big house out in the woods because these codgers are going to take a long weekend and they donโt want to leave their cat or their house alone in writer/director Simon Richardson’s Satanic shocker.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘I Dared You! Truth or Dare 5’: A Chainsaw Victim Fights an Angry Orderly
I Dared You! Truth or Dare 5 is a sequel to a mid-1980s slasher where a kid who got hacked in the head with a chainsaw dons a half-mask and exacts bloody vengeance.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Nightmare Man’: Here’s What Happens When Fertility Masks Go Bad
Writer-director Rolfe Kanefsky mashes together conceits from classic Tales From the Crypt episodes, slasher movies and possession flicks, and the result is Nightmare Man, the film that answers the question: What could it hurt if you mail away for a creepy mask that is intended to help couples in getting pregnant, but it ends up unleashing a rape demon even though the rape demon might actually end up all being in the wifeโs mind?
Ben Nagy reviews ‘VelociPastor’: Priest Uses Dino-Powers to Chomp Crime, Pierce Pimp & Gnaw Ninjas
In a filmic landscape that has spawned Toxic Avengers, Sharknados and multiple attacks by killer tomatoes, among others, itโs a tough order to come up with a concept thatโs intentionally campy yet unique enough that it can potentially accumulate its own cult. So writer-director Brendan Steere did his best to find the sweet spot with VelociPastor, featuring a priest named Doug Jones (Gregory James Cohan), who gains the power to morph into a dinosaur to mete out holy and bloody vengeance.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Terrortory’: Who knew that west-central Maryland was so spooky?
Terrortory is a five-story anthology horror flick by Kangaskahn Films that establishes a creepy bit of folklore in the west-central region of Maryland.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Kill or Be Killed’: What’s offing these outlaws?
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Texas filmmakers Duane Graves and Justin Meeks deserve about 12 bags of loot stolen from a trainโs worth of credit in making their nasty Western outlaw flick Kill or Be Killed.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Doom Room’: Don’t let the rhyming title fool you, this is serious stuff
Doom Room, despite the rhyming title and the appearance of being a Saw or Hostel-type torture fest, has higher things in mind and an existential mystery at its core. Plus the three B’s.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Greystone Park’: Three people go into an abandoned asylum, one has a camera โ what could go wrong?
Greyston Park’s setting is creepy enough, but the restrictions of the found-footage format get in the way of some interesting ideas that could have been expanded.
Ben Nagy reviews “Family Possessions”: You Never Know What Dead Grandmas Are Up To
Family Possessions builds up potential as both a haunted house flick and as a slasher mystery, but despite its buildup, the flick can’t quite get the payoff audiences are looking for.
Ben Nagy reviews Hi-Death, an anthology mutants are gonna enjoy
Hi-Death, the second anthology film put out by Nightfall Pictures, which has every necessary element that we Drive-In Mutants are in the game for.
