Independent Film
The ‘Bad Ben’ Series by Nigel Bach is the Film Experience You’ve Been Waiting for
I love independent cinema. There is something so awe-inspiring about people without Hollywood connections or multi-million dollar budgets picking up a camera and running with an idea. Despite the lack...
The House on Mansfield Street Magnificently Captures the Uncanny [Review]
The House on Mansfield Street from Mansfield Dark Productions (see my interview here) follows Nick, a documentarian who moves to a smaller city to advance his career. After moving to a quiet apartment...
Independent Horror Check! A Chat With Mansfield Dark Productions [Interview]
During Thanksgiving, my brother and I were perusing Amazon Prime movies and came across Mansfield Dark Productions’ The Investigation: A Haunting in Sherwood. After watching countless movie...
Midnight Movie is Tragically Flawed [Retrospective]
Midnight Movie follows the employees and patrons of a rundown theater on the night the cinema is screening Ted Radford’s The Dark Beneath. Though it was never a major hit, The Dark Beneath is t...
America Has Fallen Is The Independent Action Movie We Want And Need Right Now
America Has Fallen (in no way officially related to Olympus Has Fallen) revolves around Ryan Taylor (played by Tom Getty, Rising Fear, Emulation), a former marine who is framed for a terrori...
Review: Range 15 Is a Brutal and Heartfelt Zombie Movie
Made by military veterans, for military veterans, Range 15 is a zombie movie experience unlike any other. The film begins with a newly-retired soldier named Mat Best (playing himself) who finds himsel...
Horror of the Heartland: Crowdfunding and Homegrown Terror in Nick Sanford’s ‘The Harvesters’
Oklahoman filmmaker Nick Sanford is never short on ambition. As a child, Sanford had a penchant for short films, such as Hook 2, a spiritual follow-up to Steven Spielberg’s 1991 fantasy adventu...
Cult Corner: Minotaur
[soliloquy id=”20976″] Welcome to Cult Corner where we dive through the bargain bins to determine if a movie is trash or treasure. Today’s pick…Jonathan English’s Minota...
Saw Re-Release Does Embarrassingly Poor Box Office Numbers
I cannot say I’m entirely surprised that Saw did’t produce a big box office draw. Seeing as how most of the target audience either owns or has access to the film on DVD...