OCCURRENCE AT MILLS CREEK *** USA 2019 Dir: Don Swanson. 18 mins Currently being expanded into a feature length movie of the same name, writer-director Don Swanson’s well shot, effectively scored short film, like HEREDITARY, finds as much horror in the banal truths of everyday grief as it does with…
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LADYWORLD stars Ariela Barer, Annalise Basso (CAPTAIN FANTASTIC), Ryan Simpkins (BRIGSBY BEAR, THE HOUSE), Odessa Adlon, Maya Hawke (STRANGER THINGS Season 3), Tatsumi Romano, Zora Casebere and Atheena Frizzell. Written by Amanda Kramer and Benjamin Shearn, and produced by Love & Death Productions’ Leal Naim and Thomas R. Burke alongside Amanda…
HOUSE OF LEXI **** UK 2019 Dir: M W Daniels. 15 mins Writer-director M W Daniels also created the music score for this haunting study of loss and grief: the wordless vocals enhancing an eerie soundscape for the opening slow-track in to a scene of our heroine (the impressive Emma…
THE HOUSE (a.k.a. Huset) (a.k.a. The Winter Siege) *** Norway 2016 Dir: Reinert Kiil. 90 mins In this effectively chilling wartime horror, two German soldiers (Frederik Von Luttichau, Mats Reinhardt) capture a gangrenous Norwegian soldier (Sondre Krogtoft Larsen) during an unforgiving Scandinavia winter in WWII. They come across an abandoned…
THE FOREST OF THE LOST SOULS ** Portugal / Spain / United Arab Emirates / Russia 2017 Dir: Jose Pedro Lopes. 71 mins “Time destroys everything” and “Sadness will last forever” are the competing mantras of this beautifully shot (in black and white) but uninvolving mood piece set in a…