BRIGHT HILL ROAD – directed by Robert Cuffley – SPOILERS ⁓ It’s quickly established that Marci (Siobhan Williams) is an alcoholic. She drives drunk, works drunk (she is in charge of HR for an unspecified company), and does everything else …
THE SWARM (La Nuée)- directed by Just Philippot – SPOILERS On a farm somewhere in the French countryside, Virginie Hébrard decides to raise locusts as a last ditch effort to survive. She has a mildly asthmatic, soccer-playing son named Gaston …
DEMONIC – written and directed by Neill Blomkamp – SPOILERS It begins in a dream in which Carly (Carly Pope) wanders through the dry grass surrounding a disused institutional-appearing building, calling out to her mother (who does not answer). She …
ANYTHING FOR JACKSON – directed by Justin G Dyck – SPOILERS Shannon Becker (Konstantina Mantelos) is surprised and dismayed when Dr. Walsh (Julian Richings) tells her she’s pregnant, but Walsh is very pleased and even sheds a tear over the …
THE RIGHTEOUS – a film by Mark O’Brien – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Frederick Mason (Henry Czerny) was a Catholic priest until ten years ago when he met and married Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk). A few years later the couple adopted Joanie …
TIN CAN – directed by Seth A Smith – SPOILERS At the start of things we hear a newscaster (voiced by Shelley Thompson) saying: “Since its May discovery, the fungal infection has quickly swept across the Maritime provinces and Quebec. …
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE – a film by David Cronenberg – SPOILERS Not nearly as gory as, for instance, Guillermo del Toro’s CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, this story might be an attempt by Cronenberg to envision the impact of his work …
DOOR MOUSE – A film by Avan Jogia – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After a night of prophetic nightmares, Mouse (Hayley Law), wakes and silently narrates the start of the next issue of her monthly horror porn comic. Titled “Whoreific“, the …
UNWELCOME – directed by Jon Wright – (limited spoilers) An unassumingly complex story containing some things that are never completely explained and other things that are only hinted at, UNWELCOME begins with a series of apparent coincidences: Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) …
INFINITY POOL – a film by Brandon Cronenberg – SPOILERS ⁓ Em Foster (Cleopatra Coleman) and her husband James (Alexander Skarsgård) awaken on a clear morning, and Em is puzzled. “You said you can’t feed yourself with white sand brain …
RUN RABBIT RUN – directed by Daina Reid – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On her daughter Mia’s seventh birthday, a white rabbit appears in Sarah’s yard. Mia (Lily LaTorre), whose name means “lunar cycle” in the Noongar language, assumes it’s a …
WINTERTIDE – directed by John Barnard – SPOILERS ⁓ It is the ninety-eighth consecutive day of night, and dawn is not coming anytime soon. Something must have changed the Earth’s axial tilt, because no place remains dark for that long …
ENYS MEN – a film by Mark Jenkin – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Thought-provoking and beautiful, ENYS MEN is set in April, 1973 on a deserted island off the Cornish coast, where a lone Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) monitors the status of …
HUMANE – directed by Caitlin Cronenberg – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This is a locked room mystery with the victims alive at the start. Yusef (Joel Gagne) and Malik (Frankie Francois) arrive to relocate a grand piano for well-known news anchor …
I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD – directed by Chad Archibald – SPOILERS ⁓ William Derrow (Aidan Devine) lives on a farm with his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston), and circumstances have made him an urban legend. His butchering skills are regularly employed …
RABID — a film by Jen and Sylvia Soska — SPOILERS ⁓ Rose (Laura Vandervoort), her face slightly scarred from the long ago car accident that killed her parents, works for a fashion designer named Gunter (MacKenzie Gray) whose latest …
