190 | Dementer

• Written & Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle

• Stars Katie Groshong, Stephanie Kinkle and Larry Fessenden

• Unrated 

• Runtime: 1hr 20min

• Premiered at Nashville Film Festival in Oct. 10, 2019

• Released March 2, 2021

• Available on VOD

• RT: 83%

  Synopsis: A woman named Katie, who appears to have run away from a dangerous cult, takes a job working as a caregiver at a group home for mentally disabled adults. She finds she takes to the job immediately, despite the upsetting flashbacks she suffers about her time with the cult. When one of her patients becomes ill, Katie begins to suspect that an evil spirit is behind it and uses the knowledge gained from the cult to attempt to rid her patient of the demon.
  

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Join us next time when we will be covering The Queen of Black Magic - currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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174 | Willy's Wonderland

Directed by Kevin Lewis; From a screenplay written by: G.O. Parsons

Stars Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant

Released 2/12/2021

Available for rent on Amazon Prime

TV-MA

Runtime: 1hr 28mins 

RT: 62% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis: When a man finds himself in a weird town after running over a spike strip and ruining all his tires, he’s offered the job of cleaning out the town’s cursed/closed themed restaurant, Willy’s Wonderland. What the man doesn’t know, however, is that the animatronic characters in the restaurant have a sordid past and come alive to do what they do best…KILL!

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The horror world will never outrun zombies. But since it’s been a while since we’ve covered a zombie flick, if you join us next time, we’ll be reviewing the Netflix released, Army of the Dead.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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173 | Hunter Hunter

Written & Directed by Shawn Linden

Stars Camille Sullivan, Devon Sawa and Nick Stahl

Released December 18, 2020

Available on Hulu 

Not Rated

Runtime: 1hr 33mins 

RT: 94% critics, 66% audience

Synopsis: Joseph and Anne are a couple who live off the grid with their young daughter in the Canadian wilderness. They barely eke out a living by selling animal pelts at the local general store but their livelihood is threatened when their old enemy - a wolf - returns and begins stealing their trapped animals.

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We decided that we needed something a little more Cagey for our next movie so we’ll be watching and reviewing Willy’s Wonderland. We smell an Oscaaarrrr!

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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172 | Come True

Directed by Anthony Scott Burns

Written by Anthony Scott Burns, based on a story by Daniel Weissenberger 

Stars Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron and Carlee Ryski  

Debuted at Fantasia Film Festival August 30, 2020

Released March 12, 2021

Available on VOD ($6.99) 

Not Rated

Runtime: 1hr 45mins 

RT: 86% critics, 67% audience

Synopsis: Homeless teenager Sarah enrolls in a sleep study to both have a place to stay and to attempt to understand her nightmares. The researchers are utilizing groundbreaking technology which records images from dreams, and they’re finding the same entity appearing in all of them - the shadow men.

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Maybe we picked this next movie based solely on the fact that it stars 90’s heartthrob, Devon Sawa, and maybe we didn’t. Ok, we did. But Hunter Hunter also looks like a solid survivalist thriller and that theme is right up our alley.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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