Loron Hays

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. It’s an idea introduced by writer William Faulkner and, thematically, it is present as the day is long in Writer/Director T ereza Nvotová ’s hauntingly beau...
Larger-than-life horror director, Alfred Costella (a very funny and wild Vinny Curran ), wants everyone to get off when they see his movies. Literally. His latest offering, an all practical-effects fi...
“Aren’t you breaking some super spy trouble for telling me all this?” John Doe is a “soldier’s soldier” and now he’s under their control. Robert Patrick ( The X-Files , Terminator 2 ) says this as the...
“Stay away from Oz!” Gale is a 30-minute movie about a legacy of shattered dreams as one young former Kansas native, Emily Gale ( Chloë Culligan Crump ), finds herself haunted by some disturbing image...
Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and explores ancient history with The Mummy Trilogy including The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor . Fol...
Hold onto your butts! Grindhouse horror is not through with you yet, Horror Hounds! Megalomaniac , an award-winning feature from Writer/Director Karim Ouelhaj is upon us this month. The film is violen...
. . and her cries for help echo through the woods. Opening with two sad, yet unrelated events, The Hanged Girl - which starts in the 1800s with a smallpox outbreak - brings its winding narrative toget...
Protect your local waterways! Something is wrong with Jose ( Brian Villabolos ). Sure, he’s got a lot on his mind with the job and the failed attempts at getting his wife, Lucy ( Lori Kovacevich ) pre...
Desperation is a killer. Fantastically staged and realized, Failure! is a single-take master act in tension building as James ( Ted Raimi, The Quarry , Ash v Evil Dea d, Creepshow ) is given one hour...
The Great Depression. The War of the Worlds . The Rise of Orson Welles . World War II. The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb. The Fall of Orson Welles. This was 1947. And if you don’t think they are all con...
The neon is strong with this one. That’s a Wrap is, at once, an homage to the colorful Giallo slashers of the 1970s. Know this going in and the staging of the kill scenes will definitely meet your exp...
“What if I woke up evil?” Blending elements of comedy and horror is no easy task, yet Waking Nightmare makes it look all too easy. The result is an interesting mix which results in a reality that you...
“Do I pay you now?” Opening with a hyper-fixed obsession with the lonely man at the center of its story, Rub is both unnerving and focused as a character study as one outsider finds himself forming an...
When a video challenge goes wrong, those left standing have to figure out whether it’s a prank or not! Opening with a rather hilarious send-off to an annoying social media star who decides to spend th...
War. Displacement. Immigration. The Atomic Age. With Oppenheimer blowing up cinemas this summer, the timing of the release of The Restless Hungarian is spot-on as one grown son, curious about his famo...