Charlotte is a young girl with a wild imagination. In her free time, she travels through her apartment building's ventilation ducts, getting herself into all kinds of mischief. One day during a meteor shower, a tiny piece of space material lands in the building and a spider emerges from it. Not knowing its origins, Charlotte takes it home and quickly discovers that it's highly intelligent, growing rapidly, and insatiably hungry.
Let me preface this by saying I absolutely hate spiders…
Nikki is a homeless drug addict with a five year old daughter. They squat illegally in a massive space beneath a New York City subway tunnel, sharing it with others in similar predicaments. When the city forces them out of the only place they've called home, they emerge topside into the chaos of the city streets. This is the harrowing story of a woman battling her demons and addiction while desperately trying to keep her little girl safe. A little…
"Before Mats passed away, he left behind his password for us...."
Mats Steen was born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a rare muscle disease carried by mothers with no personal effects and only passed on to males who it devastates. As a toddler and young boy, he could walk but often tripped and fell, a symptom of the condition that eventually left him wheelchair-bound. Over time, Mats’ condition would only worsen. Unable to engage in physical activities, he devoted his leisure…
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 275
AT 12:05 YOU WILL BE VISITED BY THE CRAFTSMEN.
June, 1984. Jeremy G. Wilkins is an M.I.T. student that accidentally invents a computer program codenamed PARAGON that can predict the future. This leads to a visit from the mysterious entity that runs the world from the shadows.
Paragon may only be twelve minutes long but it packs quite a bit of suspense and a very interesting premise into that entire runtime. It's supported by a…
Scariest Monsters in America is another entry in the Tubi original Scaristest series of documentaries that harken back to the old television shows featuring questionable "experts" of the strange, paranormal, and supernatural on both network and cable television. Those shows were basically the prerequisite to the once popular YouTube "list channels" in which a topic would be broken down into a "Top 10" list of short summaries that all focus on a primary subject.
This documentary covers what it deems…
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 269
An Arizona Ranger arrives at the small wild west town of Agua Fria in search of the murderous outlaw, "Texas Red."
Big Iron is a film adaptation of the song Big Iron by Marty Robbins. For those in their thirties who play video games, you may know the song from Fallout: New Vegas. The production values are a lot better than the opening scene initially led me to believe and the costumes are top notch.…
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 268
The masked Maddog Quinn is an infamous outlaw on the run from lawmen in the wild frontier, a place simply called "The State." It’s a rugged land dominated by bad men, guns, horses, and steam technology that's far beyond its time and Maddog is on a dangerous quest to procure an essential tool for survival.
It's been six days since my last film review, and I believe that’s the longest stretch in three or four…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 28
I usually start my film reviews with a short blurb but this is the kind of flick that hit me right in the noggin and influenced me to take a new approach.
Caddo Lake surprised me in the best way. Coming into it, I expected a horror flick, given the foggy swampy Louisiana bayou setting and M. Night Shyamalan’s producer credit. Instead this film took a very different path, diving into a…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 21
An adopted documentary filmmaker aims to interview her first known biological relative, Samuel, a man who recently left the Amish community. When she meets him he brings her and her friends back to the family farm where she is invited to spend a few days. During her time on the farm she discovers far more than she could have ever expected. Something evil. This is their footage.
Its been a busy week…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 18
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 261
"Are you ever really alone?"
Home alone while his mother is in the hospital, Seth begins to experience strange phenomena in the house.
Heavy Eyes is a six-minute long short horror film by Curry Barker, the same director who created the excellent direct-to-YouTube horror flick Milk and Serial. This is a strange little film with an ending that I totally did not expect. It was awesome! Most…
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 260
A young man named Thomas is visited by a mysterious figure named Mr. Billums.
When I first started my Saturday Night Shorts project, the goal was to hopefully use my limited reach to bring a few new sets of eyeballs to short films directed by up-and-coming filmmakers. While it has evolved beyond that, I still love to get back to the roots whenever I can, whether by stumbling upon stuff or, more recently, filmmakers reaching…
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 260
A young man named Thomas is visited by a mysterious figure named Mr. Billums.
When I first started my Saturday Night Shorts project, the goal was to hopefully use my limited reach to bring a few new sets of eyeballs to short films directed by up-and-coming filmmakers. While it has evolved beyond that, I still love to get back to the roots whenever I can, whether by stumbling upon stuff or, more recently, filmmakers reaching…