I should probably begin by commenting that Game of Werewolves is the terrible localized title for the Spanish horror-comedy Lobos De Arga (which is literally translated to Werewolves of Arga). I have no idea why it was decided to rename the film Game of Werewolves (perhaps it’s the success of Game of Thrones). Since I…
A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a comedy/thriller, written and directed by Crispin Mills of the band Kula Shaker, which stars Simon Pegg as a writer named Jack. Tired of being typecast as a children’s author, Jack has been working on a TV script about Victorian Serial Killers named Decades of Death. Due to his…
There is no worse feeling than sitting in a movie theatre and watching a movie, in which everyone around you is laughing their heads off, yet you remain straight-faced at the weird and random events happening on screen. The basic plot of Wrong has a man named Dolph Springer (Jack Plotnick) waking up to notice…
In Their Skin, previously known as Replicas, is a film about a family who is a tormented by a group of strangers, who want to take over their lives. Mark (Josh Close) and Mary (Selma Blair), along with their son Brendon (Quinn Lord), travel to their family’s cottage as a way to cope with the…
Dead Sushi is an utterly ridiculous Japanese splatter comedy about an inn that has become under attack by swarms of…man-eating killer sushi. The killer sushi are the creation of a disgruntled former member of a pharmaceutical company, of which the members happen to be visiting the inn. Even though the premise of sushi that comes…
Sushi Girl is a dark a violent crime thriller, which seems heavily inspired by the films of Quentin Tarantino, mostly notably Reservoir Dogs. Six years after a diamond heist gone wrong, the gang responsible reunites for a Yakuza-style sushi dinner in order to tie up the loose ends from the crime (and to determine the…
A couple nights ago, I ventured into the world of podcasting, as I took part in a live “pubcast” for Dead Air: The Liberal Dead Podcast, which was recorded live at one of Toronto After Dark’s post screening pub nights. I’m acquainted with the show’s guest host Kirk Haviland and I thought that it would…
Michael receives footage of his friend Chris going on a drug-fuelled bender at cabin in the woods. He travels up to the cabin and handcuffs Chris to a pipe as part of a desperate week-long detox plan. Weird stuff starts to happen. Resolution is a hard film for me to describe. In fact, the very…
On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr killed his entire family at their house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, NY. 13 months later, George and Kathleen Lutz bought the house at the bargain price of $80,000. 28 days later, they abandoned the house with all their possessions inside. The reported cause for their abandonment…
In the UK, the hoodie has become a symbol of disenfranchised youth. Gangs of hooded youth gather in Britain’s impoverished areas and can be quite frightening to come across. Citadel was inspired by a true incident, in which director Ciaron Foy was attacked by Hoodies, which results in what is easily the most tense and…
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