Ben Nagy reviews ‘Greystone Park’: Three people go into an abandoned asylum, one has a camera — 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 ‘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 ‘Kill or Be Killed’: What’s offing these outlaws?
Texas filmmakers Duane Graves and Justin Meeks deserve about 12 bags of loot stolen from a train’s worth of credit in making their nasty Western outlaw flick Kill or Be Killed.
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 ‘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, it’s a tough order to come up with a concept that’s 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 ‘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 wife’s mind?
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 ‘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 – 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 don’t want to leave their cat or their house alone in writer/director Simon Richardson’s Satanic shocker.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Clown Fear’: So This is What a Psycho Clown Society Looks Like
Clown Fear calls back to the 1960s gore shocker 2,000 Maniacs, but instead of hillbilly rednecks doing the murdering, it’s a bunch of folks in facepaint who couldn’t cut it at the circus.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Night Sitter’: Shady Baby Sitter and Co. Run Afoul of Child-Killin Witches
We’ve got another baby sitter in peril in The Night Sitter. But this one’s different because she’s being menaced by witches, is kind of a criminal and runs around with the wrong crowd. Call her the anti-Jamie Lee Curtis.
