ASSIMILATE **** USA 2019 Dir: John Murlowski. 93 mins Jack Finney’s evergreen paranoia classic “The Body Snatchers” tends to get a Hollywood reinterpretation every two decades or so and the era of Trump and fake news feels like the most apt backdrop for the story since the McCarthy-era emergence of…
Filmmaker Jeff Payne announces IN DARKNESS I WAIT, the third installment of THE PALE FACED LADY short film series. “The first Pale Faced Lady was mostly narrative driven, giving you some visuals with the story and creating the dark atmospheres throughout. The second “She Will Return” went into the…
12 DEATHS OF CHRISTMAS (a.k.a. Mother Krampus) *** U.K. 2017 Dir: James Klass. 90 mins Another Christmas horror enters the fold and with it a few surprising twists and turns can be expected. Opening with a narration of the eastern European story of Frau Perchta we are told that in…
A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND ***** UK / Ireland / Belgium 2019 Dir: Abner Pastoll. 97 mins “If you want to get anywhere in this life you have to be a bitch”. So advises tough but loyal mother Jane Brennan to her recently widowed daughter (Sarah Bolger) early…
SHE WILL RETURN *** USA 2019 Jeff Payne 13 mins SHE WILL RETURN is the sequel to Jeff Payne’s short released this spring THE PALE FACED LADY. It is the origin story of THE PALE FACED LADY, a malevolent spirit that haunts her families home. It begins with a grieving…