Talk To Me

Horror

Available on VOD: 16 november 2023

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou

Cast: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings, War of the Worlds)

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.

• 95% FRESH op Rotten Tomatoes!
• RTL Boulevard / Tim Oliehoek: Beste horrorfilm van 2023. Bekijk het item hier.
• Telegraaf.nl: Talk to Me is een film die de luide buzz, die begon op het Festival van Sundance, weet waar te maken. Een beklemmende, effectieve en onvergelijkbare aanwinst in een genre dat de afgelopen jaren te weinig nieuwe impulsen kende. Lees de hele review en een interview met de regisseurs hier.
• AD.nl: Wurgende horrorhit Talk to me is de Evil dead voor de TikTok-generatie (****). Lees de hele review hier.
• Volkskrant.nl: Een zowel beklemmende als gruwelijke horrorfilm over de wurggreep van rouw. De hellevaart van regisseurs Danny en Michael Philippou kent geen enkel taboe of creatieve rem (****). Lees de hele review hier.
• NPO3.nl: Wanneer je over een nieuwe horrorfilm hoort dat hij de engste of beste van het jaar is, denk je inmiddels: yeah right, zal wel. Maar het debuut Talk to Me van de Australische YouTubers Danny en Michael Philippou is écht heel tof en écht creepy. Lees de hele review hier.
• DeCorrespondent.nl: Talk to Me kan zo in het lijstje van horrorfilms die het genre de afgelopen jaren nieuw leven hebben ingeblazen, samen met andere aanraders Nope, Smile en Pearl. Lees de hele review hier.
• Filmkrant: Een uiterst efficiënte schrikmachine, die een slimme moderne twist geeft aan het aloude genre van possession-horror en waar de lol van het maken aan alle kanten vanaf spat. Lees de hele review hier.
• VPROGids.nl: Australische horrorhit Talk to Me grijpt je bij de keel (****). Lees de hele review hier.
• Gids.tv: Talk to Me heeft naargeestige humor met zeer gruwelijke (schrik)momenten en een ijzersterke twist die vrijwel nog nooit vertoond is. Kortom: we kunnen wel stellen dat deze productie nu al dé moderne horrorklassieker van onze tijd is. Vier en halve ster. Lees de hele review hier.
• PU.nl: Horrorfanaat Rogina durft echter nu al met zekerheid te zeggen dat Talk To Me de beste horrorfilm van dit jaar is. Lees de hele review hier.
• SchokkendNieuws.nl: De Philippou’s halen de hele cinematische trukendoos leeg om de spanning aan te houden. Dus roep wat vrienden bij elkaar en ga naar de bios, Lees de hele review hier.

Bring Him To Me

Action, Crime, Thriller

Available on VOD: 28 maart 2024

Director: Luke Sparke

Cast: Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Thor - Love and Thunder), Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under, Total Control), Barry Pepper (True Grit, Maze Runner 2 and 3)

Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. There is a long drive ahead.

• Filmink.com.au: Pepper and crew treat their characters with depth.
• Glamadelaide.com.au: Sensational acting by all and the tense script as the drama unfolds in flashbacks where we come to know our main character’s lives, will have you championing for them. An engaging movie well worth the watch!
• Walkdenentertainment.com: Barry Pepper is fantastic playing a skilled getaway driver and gives a solid performance. Naturally, actor Sam Neill carries an enjoyable presence on screen as a ruthless man keen for revenge.
• Livingartscanberra.com.au: The moral imperative is at the forefront of this film – you do need to look behind the blood and gore for it – and Barry Pepper’s understated performance is perfect for the role. This is a film for action junkies.

MethGator

Action, Horror, Thriller

Available on VOD: 18 april 2024

Director: Christopher Ray

Cast: LaRonn Marzett, Vanesa Tamayo, Bruce Peoples

In a news bulletin, police warned residents to refrain from flushing methamphetamine down the toilet to prevent “meth-gators.” Down in Sweet Water Point, Florida, they didn’t listen...

• Filmblitz.org: The makers know enough about the genre to have fun with it.
• Moriareviews.com: The Asylum’s in-house visual effects team have been getting more professional with each film to the point that their effects are on a par with theatrical product. As a result, the CGI gator looks fairly menacing and impressive once it is unleashed.
• Voicesfromthebalcony.com:It’s probably the best animal on drugs film since Franco Prosperi unleashed a zoo full of PCP crazed predators on a hapless city in The Wild Beasts back in 1984. It’s a highly enjoyable beer and pizza film, perfect for relaxing to on the weekend.

No Way Up

Thriller

Available on VOD: 12 augustus 2024

Director: Claudio Fäh

Cast: Sophie McIntosh, Will Attenborough (Dunkirk), Colm Meaney (Law Abiding Citizen, Seberg), Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey)

Ava is hoping for a peaceful getaway with friends in the resort town of Cabo, Mexico. But when the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean and comes to rest on the edge of an underwater ravine, Ava and a handful of survivors are trapped in the airlocked cabin. Against the odds, Ava must fend for herself, contend with bloodthirsty sharks, and find the courage to step up and lead the crash survivors to safety.

• Filmschoolrejects.com: You’re likely to be pleasantly surprised by its personality, thrills, and resourcefulness.
• Fangirlish.com: This is peak cinema that didn’t take itself too seriously and opened the doorway for sequels.
• Culturess.com: What appealed to me in the movie was the strong dynamic between three compelling female characters. Another highlight is the plane accident itself.
• Aisleseat.com: You’ll be entertained by all the unapologetic mayhem in No Way Up. It is what it is – a cheerfully implausible thrill ride.
• Times-herald.com: A silly night out at the movies, it will be unnerving and even frightening in places.
• Blu-ray.com: Capable of raising hell, especially in such a claustrophobic setting.

The Well

Horror

Available on VOD: 24 oktober 2024

Director: Federico Zampaglione

Cast: Lauren LaVera (Iron Fist, Terrifier 2), Claudia Gerini (John Wick 2, The Passion of the Christ), Jonathan Dylan King, Denise McNee (The Swarm)

A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Little does she know she is placing her life in danger from an evil curse and a monster born of myth and brutal pain.

• Eyeforfilm.co.uk: The distilled essence of European Gothic.
• Projectedfigures.com: Federico Zampaglione's gory gothic delves deep into Italian cinema past to restore and resurrect a particular kind of grotesquery.
• Screen-space.net: A gruesome, gleeful throwback to the Italian film sector’s heyday as the prime purveyor of Europe’s grisliest B-pics.
• Horrordna.com: Full of genuinely ghastly monsters and compelling mysteries.
• Mybloodyreviews.com: It's refreshingly high on the gore count, bragging an impressive catalogue of inventive kills that should make this a must-see for to the gore hounds amongst you.
• Nightmarishconjurings.com: An old-school Italian shocker that has a modern feel and twist, great production value, and an excellent lead-in Lauren LaVera (TERRIFIER 2)

When Evil Lurks

Horror

Available on VOD: 28 oktober 2024

Director: Demián Rugna

Cast: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater

When brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomón) discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse — its very proximity poisoning the local livestock — they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community. Now they must outrun an encroaching evil as it corrupts and mutilates everyone it is exposed to, and enlist the aid of a wizened “cleaner,” who holds the only tools that can stop this supernatural plague.

• Jan “Mr. Horror” Doense zegt: “De beste horrorfilm van het jaar. Punt. Ik heb in tijden geen film gezien die zó onder de huid kruipt en die zulke effectieve en brute jump scares bevat.”
• Schokkendnieuws.nl: When Evil Lurks is voor de geharde horrorfan die geen kotszakje nodig heeft.
• DeFilmRecensent.nl: When Evil Lurks is niet alleen anders maar ook gewoon goed. Rugna legt in het begin niets uit en laat het verhaal zichzelf vertellen. De actie is snel op niveau en dan gaat When Evil Lurks er volledig voor.
• Modernmyths.nl: Gruwelijk goede Argentijnse horror. Buiten al het demonisch geweld en de grimmige shots is When Evil Lurks ook gewoon fun.
• Slashfilm.com: This is a movie that is both familiar and fresh. Scary, yes, but mostly disturbing, gory, smart, quite expansive, and all around created in the bowels of hell itself.
• Nytimes.com: A dark and timely parable about what happens when trust - among community members, within families, between a government and its people - disintegrates.
• MovieNation: One of the most original horror films of recent memory and a pretty convincing argument to turn out the lights when you’re not using them.
• Polygon.com: 2023’s most unnerving horror release.
• RogerEbert.com: Gets great power from occasionally dropping into gory, gnarly insanity. It’s an admirably vicious piece of work.
• Eyeforfilm.co.uk: Will haunt viewers, like the awful suffering of the characters, long after the film is over.
• Inverse.com: A possession thriller unlike any that you’ve likely seen before... It's one of the boldest, most viscerally intense, and unpredictable horror movies of the year.
• 97% op Rotten Tomatoes met maar liefst 116 reviews. Lees meer quotes hier.

The Last Stop in Yuma County

Thriller

Available on VOD: 31 oktober 2024

Director: Francis Galluppi

Cast: Jim Cummings (Halloween Kills), Jocelin Donahue (Doctor Sleep), Richard Brake (Doom, Kingsman - The Secret Service)

A traveling knife salesman is stranded and forced to wait at a rural rest stop and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent hostage situation upon the arrival of two bank robbers who are on the run after a recent heist.

96% Fresh op Rotten Tomatoes! Check de reviews hier.

Daddy's Head

Horror

Available on VOD: 7 november 2024

Director: Benjamin Barfoot

Cast: Rupert Turnbull, Julia Brown (World on Fire), Charles Aitken (Happy Death Day 2U)

Step mother Laura and twelve year old Issac are forced into an unwanted family dynamic after the sudden death of Isaac’s father, James. Living together in James’s luxury, isolated, designer home he built with his previous deceased wife both Laura and Issac struggle to come to terms with the situation.