Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John V Soto Stars: Jacqueline McKenzie, Myles Pollard, Ben Mortley, Ryan Panizza, Shannon Berry, Hayley McElhinney. Western Australian based filmmaker John V Soto specialises in B-grade genre films such as the 2014 crime drama The Reckoning. For his fourth feature film the genre hopping Soto ventures into science fiction territory with …
THE GALLOWS
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing Stars: Ryan Shoos, Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Cassidy Gifford, Jesse Cross, Melissa Bratton. The Blair Witch Project has a lot to answer for! That low budget horror film started the found footage genre of horror films. Shot on a microbudget with no-name actors and minimal production values, the film was enormously profitable and sparked a whole …
UNFRIENDED
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Leo Gabriadze Stars: Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Courtney Halverson, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysoicki, Renee Olstead, Matthew Bohrer, Heather Sossaman. Paranormal cyber activity? This low budget but effectively spooky vengeful ghost story deals with the pervasive issue of cyberbullying, a serious topic that is still ripe for exploitation. This gives Unfriended a relevance and immediacy …
THE ONE I LOVE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Charlie McDowell Stars: Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ted Danson. Mark Duplass is one of the darlings of the American independent film scene and one of the key figures of the whole so-called mumblecore scene, and his low budget films like Hump Day, Your Sister's Sister, Safety Not Guaranteed, etc, have found their niche with festival audiences. Marriages in crisis has been a …
EXISTS
Director: Eduardo Sanchez Stars: Chris Osborn, Roger Edwards, Dora Madison Burge, Samuel Davis, Denise Williamson. In 1999 Eduardo Sanchez virtually created the found footage genre with the low budget The Blair Witch Project, a horror film that has spurned many imitators in the decade since. Sanchez has since gone on to make more conventional horror films, but he briefly returned to the found footage genre …
JOHN DOE: VIGILANTE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kelly Dolen Stars: Jamie Bamber, Lachy Hulme, Ditch Davey, Daniel Lissing, Sam Parsonon, Harry Pavlidis, Brendan Clearkin, Brian Wenzel. There have been a lot of films in which a vigilante, disillusioned by the ineffectual legal system and a police force seemingly unable to control the streets, takes the law into his own hands to reclaim our violent cities. Films like these play …