Category: Other Worldly Cinema

Show Yourself (2016) – By Baron Craze

It’s often interesting what the independent filmmakers present on limited funding, but Billy Ray Brewton, serving as both writer and director, brings a crafty tale about sorrow and pain, wrapped inside of weird ghostly flick, while making sure to ground in personal self-examination of beliefs. Well perhaps the last part a bit of a reach…


Housewife (2017) – By Baron Craze

In recent years many filmmakers attempted to recreate the giallo movies, mainly in both the independent market and foreign horror cinema. However, one needs to inform some of the readers of exactly the term refers to first giallo original appear in crime novels by Italian authors, by the 60s to early 80s drifted with no…


Knuckleball (2018) – By Baron Craze

If one recalls the movie Home Alone (1990), as just a comedic family fun flick, then you’re partial correct, it’s also in the wheelhouse of thrillers under home-invasion, so why bring that up? Since then often filmmakers tried to turn the story into a darker and creepier tale of woe including director Michael Peterson, who…


The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017) – By Baron Craze

An excerpt of a suicide note is how The Forest of the Lost Souls starts, from first feature director and writer José Pedro Lopes (World of Death [2016]), with his Portuguese flick done in black and white. This arthouse horror drama gives deep penetrating drama, depressive however, this movie simmers slowly, with a limited cast, as it…


Dead Envy (2018) – By Baron Craze

Dead Envy is written, directed and starred Harley Di Nardo, the lead singer of Closer and White Light Motorcade, who created a dramatic music thriller, all shot on a budget of $50,000, so state it’s an indie production very true to its belief and concept. This indie thriller tries to keep two different storylines flowing while allowing them…


King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017) – By Baron Craze

Filmmaker Steve Mitchell, known for his screenwriter credit of Chopping Mall (1986), has made a few videos on Larry Cohen, namely two in 2018, It’s Alive at the Nuart and then Cohen’s Alive: Looking Back at the It’s Alive Films. This time a feature film celebrating a man who created an underground buzz for his…


Inheritance (2017) – By Baron Craze

Viewers face a psychological, dramatic, thriller written and directed by Tyler Savage, who delivers a heavily weighted doom and thick with dread filled story of personal struggles plaguing a man and his family. Struggles and addictions, give a new rise of manifestations however, few scares ever show in this production; hence, while not exactly needed for the…


Hunting Lands (2018) – By Baron Craze

Writer and director Zack Wilcox takes a curious path with his film Hunting Lands which definitely is not a horror film, and barely a thriller, rather a dark drama, without many creepy overtones, assisted by Josh Amato for story concepts. However, the story still provides some intrigue especially when working with a minuscule budget and…


Hostage to the Devil (2016) – By Baron Craze

First, the name of this documentary is taken from a 1976 book, by author Malachi Martin, who had trained as a Jesuit Priest in the 1960s before leaving the order and moving to the USA, and some experience a controversial life with others still loyal to his convictions. Martin’s novel written in response and reaction…


The Gatehouse (2016) – By Baron Craze

Gatehouse wraps itself into a fantastical tale set in the wilderness, with nature reclaiming what rightfully belongs to it, while discovering legends and strange sinister creatures as well as a ghost story, one thing it’s not, is a horror film, it’s more of a single widowed father and his daughter, from director and screenwriter Martin…