Yet another retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s split-personality novella comes to the screen – this time with rockin’ tunes – in THE DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE ROCK ‘N ROLL MUSICAL. The title says it all. (more…) ...

THE FOLD is an ambitious web series of softcore sex and satirical sci-fi, currently playing out at thefold.tv. Its title suggests the pudendal creases of a woman, and as if to plow that point home, its conceit of a time-travel machine is a giant, semi-oval-shaped pink curtain with a circular button right up top. Subtlety, it seems, is not in the ca...

Three young actresses show up for a horror movie audition. One chickens out and the two that are left (Heather Lee + Leah Nigro) soon find that the director (William Decoff) spills real blood in his films. (more…) ...

A cheerleader (Danielle Lozeau) gets liquored up while driving home from school and runs over a pedestrian. After dragging the poor schmuck’s body out into the woods and driving home, he starts calling her. Technically the film is hit or miss. The camera work by Tim Whitfield is pretty good, offering decent lighting and angles, but overuses red ...

What’s in the water o’er at The Horror Channel? Their original programming continues to impress me greatly – first with SHADOW FALLS and now even more so with HEARTLAND HORRORS: SEASON ONE, another online series rounded up in its entirety for DVD. It begins with THE THING ABOUT BANNON’S LOOKOUT, which may be the most predictabl...

I don’t know if I would say that the “retro-grindhouse” look is a movement, but certainly there have been some gestures towards it lately with directors like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and their double-feature experiment. But Scott Phillips’ Gimme Skelter, from its opening shot of a ribbon of two-lane blacktop disappearing into...

The best thing about Dorm of the Dead is its title, but don’t expect the movie to fulfill that promise. In fact, don’t expect the movie to seem much like a movie. It’s a hair shy of unwatchable. Dealing with a zombie outbreak on the campus of Arkham University, very little of it takes place in a dorm. Very little of it actually involves zomb...

With many strikes against it from the outset (ultra-low budget, shot on video, no-name cast and crew), I was as skeptical as anyone to check out this Horror Channel show, but it’s surprisingly pretty good. For one thing, it contains a great air of mystery. For another, most episodes are under 10 minutes in length, so they have little chance to b...

I got an unexpected surprise when I popped this tune into the DVD player. The Dastoli Brothers are famous in the microcinema scene for their incredible visual effects capabilities and their beautiful cinematography. When it came to their stories though, I felt they always fell a bit short. Much to my surprise, That’s the Name of That Tune ...

They aren’t friends, but they do see each other in the hallways between classes. Occasionally they even say hello. Tracy and Chris, two students at fictional Hillcrest High — which could easily be any high school in America–are the protagonists whose lives unravel in heartbreaking detail throughout the course Maria Petros’ debut fil...