Cinequest Film Festival - Writer/director Danny Dunlop's feature Wolves opens with shots of snowy and desolate Canadian streets. The wind bellows against bare trees. This creates a frigid sense of isolation that permeates throughout the runtime. Inspired by true events, this thriller is oddly haunting in the way that it portrays both loneliness and [...]

Based on Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s classic novella of the same name, The Yellow Wallpaper is an examination of gender roles in the early 19th Century and of societal views on women’s mental faculties. It focuses on a different kind of prison, one that takes a domestic form as Jane (Alexandra Loreth) suffers from an unknown [...]

The haunted hotel genre is one that has been rarely explored since it has been all but dominated from the start by The Shining. There have been attempts by big studios with films like 1408, as well as attempts by more indie studios with The Inn Keepers, but they all have trouble catching the same magic.  The [...]

Lovebirds Alex (Damian Joseph Quinn) and Bryan (Clayton Farris) are headed to the lake for a relaxing weekend. Newly single bestie Stephanie (Elizabeth Grullon) is along for the trip lazing about in the backseat and getting high. We haven't even gotten to the bad part yet. In director David Del Rio's (director) and Justin Xavier's [...]

In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, there were plenty of pandemic movies to enjoy where the world would be utterly devastated by an unknown illness or disease. Though we haven't had a big pandemic release in quite a while, it would make sense that one would creep up with the increasing paranoia of [...]

Alexandra Serio’s Tingle Monsters is firmly rooted in the malice women encounter on the internet. In this era of the #MeToo movement, women filmmakers have used horror as a platform to speak out against sexism and other atrocities directed toward women. Similarly, Serio covers a hefty topic with ease and inserts enough social commentary in [...]

Ryan Oksenberg (Damage Control) returns with Together, a genre thriller that is one-part horror, one-part comedy, one-part family drama, and 100 percent fun. Who would have thought a zombie film template would so seamlessly combine with a narrative about biohazard removal? Following a prologue of a man (David Otten) attacking a couple in the woods, [...]