Zombie Honeymoon (2004)

Zombie Honeymoon (2004)
Rating: ★★
May 6, 2015Zombie Relationship Drama
The surprise in seeing this after the tide of gonzo mash-ups and wacky title collusions that has taken over the zombie genre in the latter half of the 00s is that, despite the title, it is a zombie film that is playing itself seriously, emerging as another variant on the zombie relationship drama (*)

Beneath (2013)

Beneath (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 31, 2013Teens Trapped in a Sinking Boat by a Giant Fish
Larry Fessenden makes what seems a formula teens in peril film. Once he gets his cast stranded in a sinking boat menaced by a giant fish and debating who to throw overboard, he develops some remarkably brutal tensions

ABCs of Death 2 (2014)

ABCs of Death 2 (2014)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 1, 2014Horror Anthology
Sequel to the hit multi-director anthology has a less high-profile line-up of directors, nor hits the astonishingly perverse heights of its predecessor. As always some entries never do much but the film finds its stride in the last few episodes

Stake Land II (2016)

Stake Land II (2016)
Rating: ★★
May 8, 2017Post-Apocalyptic World of Vampires
Stake Land, set in a beautifully wintry post-holocaust world where vampires had taken over, one of the best films from Glass Eye Pix. This is a sequel that reunites most of the same elements from the original but fails to ignite them as memorably as the first film did

Most Beautiful Island (2017)

Most Beautiful Island (2017)
Rating: ★★★
May 20, 2019Woman Drawn Into a Secret Underground Society
Ana Asensio, a Spanish immigrant, writes, directs and stars in a story about a cash-strapped Spanish immigrant who is forced to seek employment in a secret society in order to make ends meet (*)

Isolation (2021)

Isolation (2021)
Rating: ★★
Nov 12, 2021Anthology of Covid Lockdown Horror Stories
Ten different filmmakers from around the world combine to make an anthology of eight horror stories set during the Covid lockdown