Author: Tony Newton

TWO/ONE **** UK/China/Canada/Argentina 2019 Dir: Juan Cabral. 115 mins Two men, complete strangers to one another and living on opposites sides of the planet, share a mysterious connection through cycles of sleep and  consciousness. The film focuses’ on two strangers on the opposite side of the planet who are interconnected by both battling the odds of their existence. The different timelines play a factor as we see Khai wake up when Kaden is going to bed. Khai played by Song Yanga is a man who we see frequent porn websites to masturbate, unhappy with his life, though his obsession with…

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TAUGHT IN COLD BLOOD *** USA 2017 Dir: P. David Miller. 94 mins A troubled teen is torn between the girl he loves and a man who encourages him to kill, will love or death take over?. This film is a teenage dramatic horror thriller which see’s a vulnerable young man from a broken family meet a man that takes him under his wing and shows him how to become a cold blooded killer with no emotions. Taught in Cold Blood is a dark indie offering, that is somewhere between the Breakfast Club and American Psycho. I loved the story…

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SINNER’S BLOOD *** 1969 USA Dir: Neil Douglas. 81 mins Bikers terrorize a small town in Neil Douglas’s Sinners Blood. When two newly orphan girls, Penny and Pat arrive to live with their perverted uncle and their cousins, a lesbian and moronic Aubrey. They scandalize everyone for having affairs with everyone like the motorbike gang, their uncle, their cousin, and the son of a religious preacher. When a gang member ends up being killed by a dose of LSD given by Penny, his homosexual lover revenges on her in a way you will not forget. Sinner’s Blood is Director Neil…

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MESSAGE MAN **** 2018 USA Dir: Corey Pearson. 91 mins When his dark past threatens to catch up with him, an assassin comes out of retirement to go on a final killing spree to make things right. Message Man stars Paul O’Brien as Ryan Teller a retired hitman on a mission to rectify his past and change his future. Ryan Teller has retired for a peaceful existence and now resides in  Indonesia, but his plans of a quiet life are cut short after the boy from a young family who befriend him is knocked over by pirates and left for…

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Steven Severin Vampyr UK 2012 Genre: Dark Ambient, Score, Experimental. Vampyr is Steven Severin’s score for the film of the same name directed by Danish movie director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Vampyr (1932) is the story of a traveller who is obsessed with the supernatural and upon visiting an old inn finds evidence that vampires do exist. The film itself is a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that helped shape horror as we know it today. Vampyr was originally written by director Carl Theodor Dreyer and Christen Jul which was based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 collection of supernatural stories…

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