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The Haunted Studio (2024)
3 Star Horror Old-School Style.
Serial horror fan, writer, director now actor Chris Shane Sanders (Nest of Vampires, Werewolf Cabal) brings us his latest independent comedy-horror, in this throwback to the classic age of British horror (1950s-70s). In this, when things go wrong, occult caper. It's time to ham it up. This time he uses the talents of Jon-Paul Gates (London Bridge is Falling Down: Build it up!, Red Army Hooligans), Hans Hernke (Hidden Agenda, Todd), the effervescent Bai Ling (The Crow, Crank 2: High Voltage) and playing the straight Crystal J. Huang (Tommyknockers, American Comedy).
Peter Haversham (Hans Hernke) has made the trip to London from LA USA, he is looking to visit his former classmate Catherine Tobin (Amber Doig-Thorne, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, The Seven) who is living with her uncle Gerald Tobin (Jon-Paul Gates), who along with his fiancé Mila Dragonovitch (Amanda Himsworth, Ripper Revealed, Bring Me a Skin for Dancing In) run Black Park Studio's. Gerald as usual is trying to raise funds for his new horror film.
Home life for the Tobin's is going so good, and when Peter turns up, OCD sufferer Gerald isn't too pleased to see him. They seem pre-occupied with strange noises coming from upstairs. Peter was planning a stay with Catherine, but Gerald says that he should leave by ten pm that night, even Catherine warns him to leave. We keep hearing strange, unearthly noises from above.
We don't have a clue what is going on until we see the read-through of Mila's script, when Cornelia (Bai Ling) really gets into her role.
Peter is determined to prove to Catherine that there is nothing strange going on upstairs. What will he find?
The haunted studio is a fine romp into the style of the Great British horror films of yesteryear. A great way to spend ninety minutes on a stormy night.
Predator: Dark Ages (2015)
5 Star Fan Film
5 Stars. The Perfect Fan Film.
Calling all Fans of the Predator franchise.
Here is the work of James Bushe (Secrets of the Dark House (short)), written and directed by James, and filmed by Simon Rowling (9 Months) they bring us the tale of battle weary Templar knights, returned to England in the hunt for a Demon.
The fan Short will get its World Premier. showing this weekend 23/05/2015 at the London MCM approx 2:45 on Saturday in the Vidfest Section. Now available to watch on You Tube Thomas (Adrian Bouchet, Arthur & Merlin) leads a band of Templars, who is charged with finding whatever has been killing villagers and other knights, as tales of a mystery killer spreads the land. After a hefty donation by the near-by village Brother Joseph (Anna Karenina) takes Thomas to his tent where he meets Sied (Amed Hashimi, Devil's Tower), a despised Saracen who has encountered the Demon before. Thomas is not happy about this arrangement, and neither are his comrades.
Freya (Sabine Crossen, Covert Operation) is an expert tracker and she soon has the team on a hunt for who or whatever has dragged bodies into the woods.
This is where the film becomes one for the fans as the Predator (Philip Lane) does what Predators do best, and this is what we have been waiting to see for ages. And it comes from the fans to the fans.
An excellent homage to a great set of Hollywood films that brought us one of our favorite space traveling killers. With the acting talents of Joe Egan, John Campling and Ben Loyd-Holmes who help bring this production to Life.
54 Days (2014)
What will you do to survive
4 Stars of what would you do to stay Alive! Written and directed by Tim Lea, writer, producer and actor. He has been writing for twelve years and has produced shorts such as Nursery Cry'mes and Easy Money. This film is brought to the big screen via the very difficult route of crowdfunding, which he set about himself. "But if anyone reading this is thinking about crowdfunding – just be aware it takes an inordinate amount of time and is hard work. Would I do it again ? For the right project – in a heartbeat!!" Tim likes to write about "healthy controversial" thrillers and there are more in the pipeline.
54dsdirklizThe Film – We find ourselves looking upon a rooftop party, but the greater air within the Australian media shows tension in the world as diplomats are pulled out from Beijing and Moscow. As Washington increases sanctions on Moscow, people are worried about nuclear attacks and we see a salesman showing his shelter building business card, thus setting the scene of nervous tension within the populace, but hey any reason for a party is a good one.
Nick (Michael Drysdale) is a lucky man. He has two women waiting for him at the party, his girlfriend Becky (Yasmin Kassim, Shooting Goldman) and Michelle (Michela Carattini) the wife of his friend Anthony (John Michael Burdon). Michelles' friend Elizabeth (Dianna La Grassa) complains about her lectures on radiation sickness as they get together and Michelle has her eye out for her lover as Liz asks if Ant is still being "Ant?" She gets an nod, when Ant brings her a glass of wine she doesn't look impressed and gets scolded, as it's a party.
Sam (Matt James) is supplying all the wine for the party as his family have a vineyard and he is Nicks neighbour. When he arrives, his girlfriend is pleased to see him and the relief on Michelles' face is obvious. Nick is offered a wine but refuses it as he has an allergy to wine and it's not a pretty sight. Everybody mingles until Nick gets a text alerting him that there has been a nuclear incident at Waragamba Dam and there are great plumes of what look like smoke in the sky, then suddenly, "bam" a flash and a nuke hits downtown Sydney.
Nick knows that Sam's family have an old bomb-shelter built into the basement of the building, he send Michelle and Liz towards the underground car-park whilst he takes care of Sam. As Michelle and Liz head for the basement with Ant in hot pursuit and Nick closely behind they get to the car-park and Nick heads them to the bunker. He hits the entry code and they all get inside and are just about to close the door as Dirk (Gregory Wilken) manages to squeeze through, but gets his arm cut as Sam's friends chase after their quarry with vengeance in mind.
54dslizWith the door sealed, the entrance to this 1960's bunker is impenetrable. The dials are turned and the water is limited as is the power and food, but the shelves are stocked with wine. 5 Souls have to survive until the nerve toxins and the radiation levels drop to a safe level.54dsmichelle Now we find out about the psyche of those within the tomb and it soon becomes apparent that the rations will only last a certain amount of days and that intense decisions must be made and herein lies the crux of the film. Even though the cast and crew are new to feature films you will not notice 54dsnickantit, in fact you will think they are stars as they perform brilliantly as do the lighting and editing54dsdirk people.
As tensions build and the power is rationed as much as the tins of spaghetti, we find light entertainment with the other resident of the roachiebunker "Roachie" . Can secrets be kept and can religious views get in the way of their survival as the wind-up radio stops hearing chatter from the outside world? 54dsventThis is a film we all want to see, so lets pray that we can get distribution for DVD release here in the UK and wherever else you are reading this.