Matt Donato
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Animals Gone Wild: How 2015 Creature Feature ‘Stung’ Stands Out from the Swarm
We’ve all seen the hackneyed, poorly CG-ed, primetime Asylum special on SYFY version of Stung too many times before. Director Benni Diez, every producer, and each department head go the extra mile to avoid such a fate for their 80s throwback creature feature. That’s what’s so endearing about a 2015 “When Insects Attack” flick with […] → Read More
Mutant Blast (2020)
Mutant Blast. 2020. Directed by Fernando Alle. Starring Pedro Barão Dias, Maria Leite, João Vilas, Mário Oliveira, Joaquim Guerreiro, Vanda R. Rodrigues, and Sofia Reis. SYNOPSIS: Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. […] → Read More
The Wretched (2020)
The Wretched, 2020. Directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce. Starring John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Jamison Jones, Azie Tesfai, Zarah Mahler, Kevin Bigley, Gabriela Quezada Bloomgarden, Richard Ellis and Blane Crockarell. SYNOPSIS: A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent’s imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the […] → Read More
Ranking All Five Films in ‘The Purge’ Franchise, From Worst to Best
Back in 2013, James DeMonaco introduced America to a (hopefully) exaggerated cinematic dystopia where citizens are allowed to indulge their darkest sins for twelve hours—welcome to the annual “Purge.” We spend the entirety of DeMonaco’s The Purge trapped inside with masked intruders trying to spread lawless violence unto a gated community where privileged upper crusters, […] → Read More
Movie Review – The Owners (2020)
The Owners, 2020. Directed by Julius Berg. Starring Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis, and Ian Kenny. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends think they find an easy score at an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the owners, an elderly couple, come home early, the tables are suddenly turned. There exists a home invasion sub-subgenre that, in my… → Read More
Movie Review – The Owners (2020)
The Owners, 2020. Directed by Julius Berg. Starring Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis, and Ian Kenny. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends think they find an easy score at an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the owners, an elderly couple, come home early, the tables are suddenly turned. There exists a home invasion sub-subgenre that, in my… → Read More
Movie Review – Open 24 Hours (2018)
Open 24 Hours, 2018 Directed by Padraig Reynolds. Starring Vanessa Grasse, Cole Vigue, Emily Tennant, Brendan Fletcher, Daniel O'Meara, Selina Giles, and Tomislav Stojanovic. SYNOPSIS: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. Open 24 Hours is by-the-books roadside horror in bumblefuck isolation, to a sensationless… → Read More
Movie Review – Open 24 Hours (2018)
Open 24 Hours, 2018 Directed by Padraig Reynolds. Starring Vanessa Grasse, Cole Vigue, Emily Tennant, Brendan Fletcher, Daniel O'Meara, Selina Giles, and Tomislav Stojanovic. SYNOPSIS: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. Open 24 Hours is by-the-books roadside horror in bumblefuck isolation, to a sensationless… → Read More
Movie Review – The Pale Door (2020)
The Pale Door, 2020. Directed by Aaron B. Koontz. Starring Melora Walters, Noah Segan, Zachary Knighton, Stan Shaw, Natasha Bassett, Devin Druid, Bill Sage, Pat Healy, James Landry Hébert, and Tina Parker. SYNOPSIS: After a train robbery goes bad, two brothers leading a gang of cowboys must survive the night in a ghost town inhabited by a coven of witches. Horror and westerns are, under this… → Read More
Movie Review – Uncle Peckerhead (2020)
Uncle Peckerhead. 2020. Directed by Matthew John Lawrence. Starring David Littleton, Greg Maness, Ruby McCollister, Jeff Riddle, Shannon O'Neill, and Chet Siegel. SYNOPSIS: When a punk band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie. Demons? New Jersey? Punk rock? Matthew John Lawrence’s Uncle Peckerhead knows the interstate to… → Read More
Movie Review – Nothing But The Blood (2020)
Nothing But The Blood. 2020. Directed by Daniel Tucker. Starring Rachel Hudson, Jordan O'Neal, Nick Triola, Les Best, Vivian Glazier, and Austin Lynn Hall. SYNOPSIS: A small-town journalist is sent to cover the opening of a controversial church. As the ministry digs its roots into the town and its residents, her life takes an unexpected, violent turn that will shake her foundations to their very… → Read More
Movie Review – Monstrous (2020)
Monstrous, 2020. Directed by Bruce Wemple. Starring Anna Shields, Rachel Finninger, and Grant Schumacher. SYNOPSIS: A young woman goes searching for answers after her friend mysteriously vanishes in Whitehall, NY, an Adirondack town known for its Bigfoot sightings. She quickly learns that hiding in the woods is an evil more sinister than she could ever imagine. Sasquatch. Bigfoot. Your unshaven… → Read More
Movie Review – Blood Vessel (2020)
Blood Vessel. 2020. Directed by Justin Dix. Starring Robert Taylor, Alyssa Sutherland, Nathan Phillips, Christopher Kirby, John Lloyd Fillingham, Alex Cooke, Steve Young, and Mark Diaco. SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in the North Atlantic, late 1945. A life raft adrift at sea, and in it, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship: With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost - until an abandoned German… → Read More
Movie Review – Useless Humans (2020)
Useless Humans. 2020. Directed by Stephen Ohl. Starring Josh Zuckerman, Rushi Kota, Davida Williams, Luke Youngblood, James Croak, and Joey Kern. SYNOPSIS: A thirtieth birthday -- and the survival of mankind -- are left hanging in the balance after a mysterious creature crashes the party, forcing four childhood friends to save the night. Stephen Ohl's Useless Humans is an unfortunate case where… → Read More
Movie Review – Lake Of Death (2020)
Lake Of Death. 2020. Directed by Nini Bull Robsahm. Starring Patrick Walshe McBride, Ulric von der Esch, Iben Akerlie, Elias Munk, Jonathan Harboe, Sophia Lie, and Jakob Schøyen Andersen. SYNOPSIS: Lillan and some friends travel back to the remote cabin by the little lake, where her twin brother died last year, and soon after arriving strange things starts happening. Inspired by the 1958 classic… → Read More
Movie Review – Coven (2020)
Coven. 2020. Directed by Margaret Malandruccolo. Starring Lizze Gordon, Margot Major, Adam Horner, Sofya Skya, Jocelyn Saenz, Miranda O'Hare, Jessica Louise Long, Sara Stretton, and Terri Ivens. SYNOPSIS: Five undergrad witches come together in order to perform a ritual to invoke the ancient powers of the witch Ashura. The leader of the coven gets carried away and accidentally kills one of the… → Read More
Movie Review – The Beach House (2020)
The Beach House. 2020. Directed by Jeffrey A. Brown. Starring Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber, and Maryann Nagel. SYNOPSIS: A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests - and the surrounding environment - exhibit signs of a mysterious infection. In a year that’s seen stealth H.P. Lovecraft inspirations (Underwater) and… → Read More
Movie Review – Metamorphosis (2020)
Metamorphosis, 2020. Directed by Hong-seon Kim. Starring Sung-Woo Bae, Dong-il Sung, Young-nam Jang, Hye-Jun Kim, Yi-Hyun Cho, and Kang-Hoon Kim. SYNOPSIS: An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him. Metamorphosis. Noun. “A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or… → Read More
Movie Review – Baby Frankenstein (2020)
Baby Frankenstein, 2020. Directed by Jon YonKondy. Starring Andre Gower, Rance Nix, Patrick McCartney, Eileen Rosen, Ian Barling, Mike Rutkoski, and Cora Savage. SYNOPSIS: The story of Lance and his unlikely friendship with a self-aware, pint-sized automaton. What if I told you Baby Frankenstein is no horror movie? That Baby Frankenstein is a quirky adolescent rom-com with a dosage of E.T. the… → Read More
Movie Review – Homewrecker (2020)
Homewrecker, 2020. Directed by Zach Gayne. Starring Precious Chong, Alex Essoe, Tony Matthews, and Kris Siddiqi. SYNOPSIS: Two women befriend each other, but one becomes obsessed with the other. Negative criticism is an art form. Schoolyard takedowns and personal attacks are useless. By expressing frustrations while dissecting a film's shortcomings via thoughtful analysis, critics should still… → Read More