When Animals Dream lingers a bit longer than it should, but an intense finish ensures that horror fans will enjoy this coming-of-age tale - if they've stuck around to see the end.
We Are Your Friends is a disastrous hodgepodge of tonal chaos, jerking our emotions around like a song that can't decide between being Moombahton or Brostep (I have no idea what either of those mean).
Digging For Fire feels a bit more rushed than Joe Swanberg's previous efforts, but it's still a wholly entertaining dissection of one of life's many crossroads.
The directorial life of Darren Lynn Bousman exploded back in 2005 when he took over the Saw franchise for three entries, but since his days of torturing the not-so-innocent, Bousman has found himself making the movies HE wants to make. Independent cinema seems to be the filmmaker's calling these days, and with a catalog boasting 2010's Mother's Day remake, Repo! The Genetic Opera and a few more notables, can you blame him? It's a long and arduous road, but one that seems to be more fulfilling, given the determination that's required to gamble on passion.
Sinister 2 is a disappointing sequel that doesn't earn a majority of its scares, yet we jump anyway. And that's unfortunately all this lazy compilation of homemade horrors strives for.
It's been a long and arduous journey for Darren Lynn Bousman's NOLA-based comic book adaptation, Abattoir. While I was talking to the Saw alumn last week, he revealed that his haunted house movie had numerous false starts that kept pushing back each hopeful start date, but when shooting finally wrapped about nine months ago, more than jubilation was felt. In the words of Bousman, he felt "vindicated." Not only had initial production been completed, but he was happy with the final result.
Tyler Shields is an incredibly creative visionary, yet Final Girl is nothing but revenge cinema in its basest form (despite the film's zany personality).