Ghost Stories Review (Film, 2018)
Ghost Stories is the rare stage play adapted to film by the original playwrights. Directors/screenwriters Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman adapt their own stage play into a feature length film and it works beautifully. The entire conceit of the play is very cinematic, an 80 minute horror show with jump scares and projected images riffing on that signature William Castle B-movie style.
The Torment of Laurie Ann Cullom Review (Film, 2014) The Archives
The Torment of Laurie Ann Cullom likes to play with genre expectations. The opening credit scroll is reminiscent of the recent wave of found footage/this is a true story films that overtook horror for quite a few years. The throwback 80’s period styling and sense of humor feels like the rise of meta-horror in the 90s. The focus on Laurie’s total inability to leave the house and ensuing paranoid breakdown is a modern spin on Repulsion, only with a better understanding of how mental illness, specifically agoraphobia, actually works.
Rattlesnake Review (Film, 2019)
Katrina and her daughter Clara are starting a new life with a cross-country move. Katrina has to stop to fix a flat tire in the desert. Clara wanders away from the car and is bitten by a rattlesnake. Fortunately, there is a trailer right off the road. The woman inside promises to help Clara while Katrina fixes the tire, mentioning a debt that will need to be paid. Clara makes a full recovery by the time they get to the hospital. Suddenly, a mysterious man appears in their hospital room. He explains that Katrina must kill someone by sunset, seven hours from now, or Clara will die.
Don't F With Cats Review (TV Series, 2019)
Don’t F With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer is a three-part documentary series that delivers exactly what the title says. A group of people who only know each other through Facebook find a disturbing video of an anonymous man murdering two kittens. They begin working together to identify the man to expose him and bring him to justice. The murderer responds by toying with them, setting up fake clues and sock puppet accounts to throw them off his track before uploading more videos. The increasing number of references to real life serial killers and obsession with fame lead the group to realize that the murderer is gearing up to switch to human victims.