Habit (1997)
Jun 18, 2001Modern Vampire
Larry Fessenden film in which he also plays a man who gets into a relationship with a vampire woman. Low key and with an emphasis on kitchen sink realism, leading to some quite striking scenes
Larry Fessenden
Headspace (2005)
Apr 19, 2007Expanded Mental Powers and Demons
Modest and effective horror film about a teenager who starts to gains expanded mental abilities - but where this also appears to unleash monsters
The Brave One (2007)
Oct 21, 2007Female Vigilante
Neil Jordan teams up with action producer Joel Silver to make a vigilante film where Jodie Foster starts toting a gun against thugs on the streets after the murder of her fiancé
I Sell the Dead (2008)
Jan 10, 2011Grave Robbers Encounters Monsters
Odd film about 19th Century body snatchers that is like a low-budget version of a Burke and Hare story. This develops a sense of humour and starts to go in some very strange directions
Bitter Feast (2010)
Jun 14, 2022Celebrity Chef Imprisons a Food Critic
An appealingly nasty little film where a celebrity chef imprisons and tortures a scathing food critic. Produced by Larry Fessenden.
Jug Face (2013)
Jul 10, 2025Backwoods Folk Horror
A very odd Folk Horror film set among two backwoods hillbilly families whose lives are dominated by a pit in the woods they worship
Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
Jun 3, 2016Documentary About the Making of Night of the Living Dead
Documentary about the making of Night of the Living Dead. This covers the making of the film, although George Romero is the only person from it interviewed. Far more potent is the documentary's pinpointing of the film's cultural influence
Late Phases (2014)
Mar 21, 2016Werewolf in a Retirement Village
A highly original treatment of werewolf themes that begins with the unique premise of ‘Werewolf in a Retirement Village' and features a hero who is an aging blind man
Southbound (2015)
Apr 2, 2016Horror Anthology
Another in the spate of multi-director anthologies that have become popular in recent years – The ABCs of Death, V/H/S et al. This is set around the common locale of a desert highway where all five tales hover in an eerie twilight zone where the everyday world has stepped over into the uncanny
We Are Still Here (2015)
Sep 18, 2015House of Lurking Evil
Solidly atmospheric effort concerning a middle-aged couple who buy a house with sinister forces lurking in the basement. This builds to an admirably gore-drenched climax
The Mind’s Eye (2015)
Jul 31, 2017Psychic Powers
Homage to David Cronenberg's Scanners, albeit produced on an even cheaper budget than any of the sequels. Where the film almost redeems itself is when it goes to town with the various head-exploding effects
Pod (2015)
Apr 22, 2020Disturbed Veteran/Possible Creature in the Basement
Mickey Keating film in which two siblings go to help a brother who appears in mental distress and claims to have imprisoned a monster in his basement
Carnage Park (2016)
Mar 20, 2017Human Hunting for Sport
Mickey Keating makes a Backwoods Brutality film that has borrowed a good deal from The Most Dangerous Game about a woman abducted and forced to make a survival run through the desert with her bare hands
Psychopaths (2017)
Feb 11, 2019Vignettes of Various Killers
From the increasingly rising genre name of Mickey Keating. This feels less like a film than a series of short films edited together (expertly so), all on the theme of people gleefully engaged in murder
Most Beautiful Island (2017)
May 20, 2019Woman Drawn Into a Secret Underground Society
Ana Asensio, a Spanish immigrant, writes, directs and stars in a story about a cash-strapped Spanish immigrant who is forced to seek employment in a secret society in order to make ends meet (*)
The Ranger (2018)
Jul 27, 2021Psychopathic Park Ranger/Black Comedy
Slasher film with a diabolically funny sense of humour as a psychopathic park ranger stalks a group of partying punks
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Sep 14, 2019Zombie Comedy
Jim Jarmusch is one of the foremost American independent directors and here makes his first zombie comedy. The question is is what can he bring to a genre that has been in full-on self-parody mode since Shaun of the Dead
Tales of the Uncanny: The Ultimate Survey of Anthology Horror (2020)
Apr 1, 2024Documentary About Horror Anthologies
A documentary that charts the history of the horror anthology in considerable depth, including conducting a survey on the best anthologies and individual episodes
The Spine of Night (2021)
Sep 11, 2022Animation/Adult Fantasy
Surprisingly good animated sword and sorcery film, made with a darker edge and definitely not for children
Isolation (2021)
Nov 12, 2021Anthology of Covid Lockdown Horror Stories
Ten different filmmakers from around the world combine to make an anthology of eight horror stories set during the Covid lockdown
Brooklyn 45 (2023)
Jan 26, 2024Séance
A film of electrifying tensions set just after World War II where a group of friends gather in an apartment and hold a séance that in turn brings out what they did during the War
MaXXXine (2024)
Aug 17, 20241980s Hollywood Psycho Film
Ti West and Mia Goth round out their trilogy of films begun with X with a psycho film set in 1980s Hollywood
Good Boy (2025)
Nov 7, 2025Ghost Story from a Dog’s Perspective
It is said that animals like dogs can perceive the supernatural. This runs with that idea and is a ghost story told entirely from the point of view of the dog. The results are unexpectedly effective