Apr 9, 2018
Thanks to the Letterboxd app, I am becoming obsessed with making lists. I know I’m late to that show, because all anyone has ever wanted to read on the internet for the last ten years has been list posts. Anyway, for my first website related list, I decided to rate and rank of all the films that have been released by Unearthed Films thus far. Since...
Mar 25, 2018
Independent film is the only way we can find originality in cinema anymore. If you’re sick of prequels, remakes, comic books adaptations, and a never-ending supply of sequels, you may need to expand your horizons. So even though this is Beneath the Underground, I know we have readers that appreciate all types of films. Usually I do something weird like this...
Mar 19, 2018
THE GHOST OF CAMP BLOOD (2018) The Camp Blood films are proof that a franchise doesn’t need a high profile to be successful on some level. The original 1999 film by Brad Sykes and the first sequel got some notice, but the third, somewhat unofficial film WITHIN THE WOODS went mostly unnoticed. Then in 2014 Mark Polonia, the surviving member of the Polonia...
Jan 18, 2018
Worse Than Expected: XX was an anthology film that I recently checked out on Netflix. I don’t know why I thought this anthology was going to be good. I guess it was the concept. The perspective shift to female protagonists in films created by females was intriguing. However, I quickly realized that they weren’t as original as they were marketed to be. Aside...
Oct 18, 2017
Making it’s world premiere at this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Brian Darwas’s first feature film GET MY GUN (2017) is a tense indie thriller that twists a couple of familiar plots into a grimly entertaining film. Amanda (Kate Hoffman) is struggling to get by as a housekeeper at a local motel. But after going into the wrong room she is raped and left...
Sep 27, 2017
GOODNIGHT GRACIE is a 4 minute short written and directed by Stellan Kendrick that takes a suspenseful look at childhood, religion and a man with a big axe. Eight year old Gracie is a devout Catholic, so when she finds her stepfather taking an axe to her mother, she resorts to prayer rather fighting back. Can this save her, will some divine intervention smite...