Florida filmmaker Jason Liquori of Hocus Focus Productions, who have given us films like All Wrapped Up, Death Plots, and The Lunar Pack, bring us this unique canine horror flick with a twist.
Debbie Rochon stars as Maria, a woman caught up in an abusive relationship looking for a place to escape the wrath of her ex-boyfriend. Thinking she’s found an environment that’s safe enough, she gets a job as a house sitter and befriends the house pet, a canine named Lotus that appears normal enough at first. While alone at the house and looking after the dog, things start to get spookier as an animal of some kind (a bear?) is running around the neighborhood killing townsfolk and Maria accidentally lets Lotus out and Lotus doesn’t come back. She is then deluged with phone calls from her mother and a series of desperate sounding text messages from her ex-boyfriend. The police look for the loose bear. Things become more intense as it becomes more apparent that the bear may not be the biggest threat Maria and the neighborhood are faced with.
Perhaps it’s something near and dear to the household?
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Low budget New Jersey filmmaker and musician Jimmy Creamer (better known in some quarters as ScreamerClauz), known for his experimental videos and animated shorts that combine some of the strangest computer graphic effects and weird music, brings us a feature film that uses all elements from his shorts and music videos by using creative computer effects and incorporating them into a live action film with sick gore and make-up effects. All these elements combined give us what is quite possibly the best experimental mindfuck done on a miniscule budget since Eric Stanze’s Ice From the Sun and Andy Copp’s The Mutilation Man.
The creators of Sculpture bring us Hypochondriac, a short horror comedy to be included in the upcoming horror anthology Psycho Street.
Hypochondriac stars Marv Blauvelt (Beef, Sculpture, The Green Monster, etc.) as Dr. Oliver Combs, a big city doctor who has moved from LA to a small town called Kronanburg (LOL!) to practice medicine at a small clinic. Hoping his start at the clinic will be a major departure from the crazy environment of the big city, he soon finds that not everyone who works and comes to the clinic is as normal as he hoped.
Ronny Carlsson, head reviewer of the horror site FilmBizarro.com has made his short films Video Geisteskrank and My Monster available for download online and is working on a short run of DVD-R screeners and a limited VHS release of VG. Also set to be included as a bonus feature on the upcoming August Underground box set from Toe Tag Pictures, VG is a highly experimental and surreal short and nice fan tribute to Toe Tag’s AU films.
Halloweenight, the latest creation from Polonia Brothers Entertainment, marks the first movie done by the company without the help of John Polonia, the twin brother and other half of PBE who passed away suddenly in February of 2008. Based on a story and a concept for a feature film John had written years earlier, Mark Polonia takes on the job of bringing his late brother’s old story to life with the help of a cast of old Polonia Bros. movie regulars (like Todd Carpenter, Cindy Wheeler, Bob Dennis, Dave Fife, Ken VanSant, etc.) and with the monster and gore making prestige of make-up effects artist Brett Piper (Screaming Dead, Bacterium, etc.).
