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Dec 10, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Hitting you harder than slamming a pint of Tenafly Viper is the multi-colored slime carnival Street Trash, directed by Ryan Kruger and written by Kruger and James C. Williamson. This is the authorized sequel to the 1987 cult classic by Roy Frumkes and J. Michael Muro, who serve as executive producers. Set in South Africa, it concerns the homeless population in Capetown that Mayor Mostert (Warrick Grier) is trying to get rid of.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Prepare to be taken to the outer edge of sanity in the totally bent, sinister indie feature Self Harm, written and directed by Edward Gusts. Nick (Edward Gusts) is a grown man who never got it together enough to get on the big bus of life. Instead, he has spent his years being dragged behind it. Nick has developed a reputation with his job and his family as being completely unreliable.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Here is the ultimate Trailer Park Boys movie we have been waiting decades for, the truly magnificent Trailer Park Boys: Standing On The Shoulders Of Kitties, written by Mike Smith and directed by Charlie Lightening. It centers around Bubbles (Mike Smith), a humble former shopping cart repairman who lives in a shed full of cats in the Sunnyvale trailer park in Nova Scotia. He carries the memory of his long-left father by making music inspired by the old man’s trucking 8-tracks.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
NOW IN THEATERS! The biggest Christmas present on the big screen this month is the indie apocalyptic lycanthrope house wrecker Werewolves, written by Matthew Kennedy and directed by Steven C. Miller. It opens in the near future with Dr. Aranada (Lou Diamond Phillips) explaining why the planet is about to get a fur-lined whooping. Last year, a phenomenon known as a supermoon occurred, where the moon drew much closer to the Earth than usual.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
NOW ON SHUDDER! A long-running indie franchise shows no sign of degradation in the sci-fi/horror found footage anthology V/H/S Beyond, directed by Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Christian Long, Justin Long, Justin Martinez, Virat Pal, and Kate Siegel from segments written by Evan Dickson, Downey, Mike Flanagan, Long & Long, Martinez, Pal, Kevin Stewart, and Benjamin A. Turner.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Turns out I have been missing out for over 50 years on one of the fiercest cinema classics of all time as I had never before seen Wolves, Pigs And Men, the 1964 Yakuza mob movie directed by the legendary Kinji Fukasaku, written by Fukasaku and Jun’ya Sato. Jiro (Ken Takakura) is released from jail in time for the funeral of his mother, which is being organized by his younger brother Sabu (Kin’ya Kitaoji).
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Sometimes, a film creeps up behind you and takes you by complete surprise by how remarkable it is. Doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you remember. So I will never forget the outstanding horror drama Little Bites, written and directed by Spider One. Mindy Vogel (Krsy Fox) dropped off her young daughter, Alice (Elizabeth Phoenix Caro), with Mindy’s mother (Bonnie Aarons) three weeks ago. Alice keeps asking her mommy when she will get to see her again.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Proving again that the pen is mightier than the meat cleaver is the extremely well-crafted Australian hyper-slasher feature Spithood, which is directed and edited by Tim Pine and written by Thibul Nettle from a story by Nettle and Akbar. It takes place on the final night before the mental asylum where everyone works closes forever. Ashley (Claudia Bonifazio) is still trying to hide her romance with Mason (Thibul Nettle), who works security from her co-workers.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
Two great tastes that probably taste great together are put on detailed display in the insightful documentary Weed & Wine, directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen. It follows two different family purveyors of two different mood-altering substances that grow out of the dirt beneath our feet. Helene Thibon and her son Aurelien Thibon-Macagno work a vineyard in the South of France that has been in their family for hundreds of years.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
filmthreat.com | Michael Talbot-Haynes
You literally don’t know how everything will come out in the end in the elegantly edgy dramatic short Auganic, written and directed by Krit Komkrichwarakool. The film opens in a chamber filled with researchers sitting in front of a partition. Mi-Yeon (Ramona Kim) announces that due to the unique circumstances of today’s demonstration, the subject, Kai (Matt Dejanovic), will be standing behind the partition as he prepares.
