GANGSTERS, GUNS AND ZOMBIES
Director Matthew Mitchell
Writers: Matthew Mitchell and Taliesyn Mitchell
Stars: Vincent Jerome, Huggy Leaver and Fabrizio Santino
Horror Comedy
4 Out of 5
“Bloody and Funny!”
 
First time getaway driver Q (Vincent Jerome) part of a six man bank robbery goes to the safe house, only to find the safe house has been compromised. Tony (Huggy Leaver of “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”) Mr. Bad-ass leader tells them, there’s another safe house on the coast. Once they get there, they will divide up the money and everyone will go their separate ways. …

EAGLEWALK (2012)
Written and Directed by Rob Himebaugh
Stars: Christopher Emerson, Matt Lasky and KC Wright
Reviewed by: Char Hardin
4 Out of 5
Horror – Short
 
“The return of the man in the suit…finally a Bigfoot that acts more like a beast than a man!
A late night outing with three young males of Camp Eaglewalk leads to tragedy. Ten years later, a group of teens return to Camp Eaglewalk as summer counselors, only to find the camp director floating in the lake. Something is stalking the teens…a legend…part ape and …

Written and Directed by ELIAS
Stars: Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder and Sarah Scoofs
Horror
2.75 Out of 5
Reviewed by Char Hardin

“GUT gets under your skin and embeds subliminal imagery into your mind that you cannot get back out again. GUT is not the type of film I would say, I loved and can’t wait to see again. Uncomfortable silence followed the credits.”
Tom father and husband are friends with co-worker Dan and while hanging out with Dan watching horror movies, Tom is subjected to a new type of film, one …

Director: Gabriel Carrer
Writer: Angus McLellan
Stars: Ryan Barrett, Henry Rollins, Lindsay Smith and Ryan Kotack
Thriller
Reviewed by Char Hardin
4 Out of 5
 
It’s 1988 and Heather and Steven are in love and have plans for the summer, but they did not plan on spending it being abducted and imprisoned in a basement, cut off from the rest of the world.
After spending the day and evening at an amusement park, Heather and Steve return to their car and once inside notice a funny “chemical smell” that causes them to pass out. While they had …

Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Shane Salerno (screenplay), DonWinslow (screenplay/novel) and Oliver Stone (screenplay)
Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, and Blake Lively
Crime – Drama – Thriller
Reviewed by Char Hardin
3.5 Out of 5
 
Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) best friends and partners in a million dollar industry…they grow and produce weed. Not just any weed…PREMO weed. Chon a former Navy Seal, while on tour of duty in Afghanistan finds a source of marijuana seeds and smuggles them back to the states. Hands them over to a botany/business major …

Writer: John Daly
Director: Guy Lee Thys
Stars: Margot Kidder, Lyne Renee and Noah Segan
Original Title: The Box Collector
Thriller
3.5 Out of 5
“WOW!”
A pretty divorcee moves in next door to Harry (Noah Segan) and his overly protective mother Beth (Margot Kidder). The woman is gorgeous and right away is pegged by Beth as trouble and she orders Harry to stay away from Marie Dupont (Lyne Renee) and her little girl KiKi. However, Harry has no chance withstanding the charms of the enchanting Marie. It is not long before he becomes …

SCREEN
Director: David Paul Baker
Writer: David Paul Baker
Stars: Nicole Alonso, Leslie Andrews and Carolyn Crow
4 Out of 5
Horror
“SCREEN…THE FILM PEOPLE ARE DYING TO SEE!”
Char Hardin
Death by Horror Film
The film begins with a newscast of a reporter talking about a large group of horror fans who were found in a field of an out of use drive-in. The Fans were there under the guise of seeing the screening of a horror film. Something about the film caused everyone to die, just like 40 years prior with similar deaths of movie goers, …

STORM OF THE CENTURY
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Stephen King
Stars: Carson Manning, Tim Daly and Colm Feore
Horror – Thriller – Drama
TV Mini-Series
4 Out of 5
Available from Echo Bridge
 
I am a huge Stephen King fan and I loved every second of watching The Storm of the Century. I had only seen parts of it when it came on television and it was refreshing to be able to watch it from start to finish.
The Story of the Century takes place off the coast of Little Tall Island, Maine and it is one …

Devil’s Crossing 
Director:James RyanGary 
Writer: James Ryan Gary 
Stars: MichaelSharpe, PatrickG. Keenan and Kevin L. Johnson
Reviewed by Char Hardin 
Horror – Western – Zombie
1 Out of 5
 
“What the Hell?”
 The Devil’s Crossing is from first time director James RyanGary and is a western zombie flick, I saw a trailer for it and it looked like something I would like to review. The film also stars MichaelSharpe. I became a fan of Michael Sharpelast year after seeing his short films in which he was in the role of director for Monomaniacal and the Deviling. Deviling actually made my 2011 list favorite list. In Devil’s …

Red Kingdom Rising
Director: Navin Dev
Writer: Navin Dev
Stars: Emily Stride, David Caron and Silvana Maimone
Horror
4 out of 5

“Gruesome, twisted, a dark blend of reality and a child’s fairy tale. Look for Red Kingdom Rising, I enjoyed it immensely.” Char Hardin
“Life…what is it but a dream?”
 
Mary Ann has been tormented most of her life and at the heart of her trouble is a figure…a single manifestation of a man who calls himself the Red King. It is this “King” that keeps her close and wants to keep her with him always. He …

LEASHED
Director: Aubrey Reynolds
Writer: Aubrey Reynolds
Stars: Jennifer Durrans and Josh Moran
Reviewed by Char Hardin
 
3.5 Out of 5Leashed opens with a female jogger and then an earsplitting scream. A man gets out of his vehicle and throws tarp over her body and takes her away to his farm. Inside a stone building another young woman is unconscious on the ground. The farmer departs and the woman opened her eyes. She inspected the tarp bundle and discovered the dead jogger. She screamed and cried and frantically tried to free …

LOVELY MOLLY
Director: Eduardo Sanchez
Writer: Eduardo Sanchez and Jamie Nash
Stars: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis and Alexandra Holden
Reviewed by Char Hardin
Horror
2 Out of 5
 
After weeks of waiting for Lovely Molly to come to Netflix, I was happy to see it, when I logged on earlier to watch The Yellow Sea (a real good Korean Film). Lovely Molly had been mentioned and discussed somewhat in the Horrorphilia Podcast Facebook group I had one guy say “I liked it. It’s a slow burn, so prepare for one” and …

LAST WILL
Drama- Thriller
Director: Brent Huff
Writer: Irmgard Pagan (story) Alan Moskowitz (script)
Stars: Tatum O’Neal, Tom Berenger and Patrick Muldoon
Reviewed by Char Hardin
4 Out of 5
 
From Green Apple Entertainment, LAST WILL the made for television movie based on true story captured my attention from start until the credits rolled. I quite enjoyed this story of a woman who married for love and uncovered some truths her husband was unaware of by his younger brothers. The brothers preferred their meddlesome sister-in-law learn a deadly lesson of whose affairs of which need not be …

ELEVATOR
 Director: Stig Svendsen
Writer: Marc Rosenberg
Stars: Christopher Backus, Anita Briem, and John Getz
Horror
4 Out of 5
 
Elevator the DVD is available to rent and own now and after watching it a few times myself and reading other reviews for it, I am little surprised that it has gotten some bad reviews. This is not the case with me. I liked it enough to watch it back-to-back three times in a row. It may not be for all viewers, but it definitely was and still is one of my favorites from my September …

VILE
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Writers: Eric Jay Beck, Rob Kowsaluk
Starring: Eric Jay Beck, April Matson and Akeem Smith
HORROR
Reviewed by Char Hardin
2.5 Out of 5
“Pain will be the only way out”
 
New release Tuesday has VILE hitting the shelves and the virtual shelves where ever DVDs are sold. Fans of Saw and Hostel may like this torture film where a group of strangers are gassed and taken to an unknown location where they are imprisoned for over 22 hours of terror and excruciating PAIN.
Two couples Nick (Eric Jay Beck), Tayler (April Matson), Tony (Akeem …

APPROPRIATE ADULT
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Emily Watson, Dominic West and Monica Dolan
UK – Drama 180 min.
Reviewed by Char Hardin
3.5 Out of 5
 
JanetLeach (Emily Watson) the mother of five is missing something in her
life. She goes through an Appropriate Adult course which would have her
volunteering to represent victims as well as suspects who are deemed
vulnerable and in need of assistance. Janet is surprised when she is called
in by the police to represent Fred West (DominicWest). When Janetasked if
he were “retarded”? She was told he was not.
Fredand his …

ELIZA’S DIARY
Director: Christian Grillo and Carmela Hayslett
Writer: Carmela Hayslett (screenplay)
Stars: Carmela Hayslett, D.M. Folger, Jr. and Chuck Maher
Reviewed by Char Hardin
4 out of 5
 
“I don’t see a lot of diaries or journals in a thrift shop…don’t people usually buy them with the intent of writing in them?”
 
 
Eliza and friend Jack enter a unique thrift shop in an effort to “soothe the soul” by “shopping” and take the lingering emotional upset of the recent break-up with Eliza’s boyfriend off her mind. Inside the shop Eliza discovers a diary. She was puzzled over …

The Many Doors of Albert Whale
Director: Marichelle Daywalt
Writer: Drew Daywalt
Stars: Tara Cardinal, Kit Williamson
Reviewed by Char Hardin
Short – Horror
3 out of 5
Spoiler Alert: Nature of the short film was hard to discuss without spoilers.

The lovely Tara Cardinal sent me a link to watch this peculiar short film from the Marichelle and Drew Daywalt. The name Daywalt equates good horror in my opinion. Thought provoking is often a characteristic that Drew evokes with his stories and Marichelle has with hers as well. This short film was written by Marichelle. In five …

The Road
Cormac McCarthy
“I’m right here.” said the father and his son replied, “I know.”
Reviewed by Char Hardin
“The Road is an emotional rollercoaster ride from the grey ash covered north to the grey ash covered south…nothing is different except for the human spirit to survive at all costs. The Road is the best book I have read in 5 years. Awesome and Inspiring!”
‘The Road’ takes place during a post apocalyptic time. SOMETHING has happened and it is not fully addressed what has happened only that it has and the world …

STELLA BUIO 
Directed & Written: Lori Bowen 
Stars: Laura D’Anieri, Lance Flint, Melanie Robel, Linnea Quigley 
Reviewed by Char Hardin 
Short – Drama – Horror – 15 min 
3.5/5 
The short film, ‘Stella Buio’ by Lori Bowen is fifteen minutes of dark powers, faith and zombies. The “dark powers” comes from Stella Buio herself played beautifully by Scream Queen Linnea Quigley of ‘Return of the Living Dead’. “Faith” of a grieving family has brought Stella Buio to their home and through her she gives us “zombie(s)”…well it is safe to say…Stella is a wicked good time. 
Stella …