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Human No More by Jonny Numb
Human No More: Smart Horror [2020. 124 minutes. Director: Christopher Alan Broadstone] Questions and Conundrums Christopher Alan Broadstone’s Human No More creates a nexus of art and intellectual curiosity without condescending to its audience. It explains just enough. Characters don’t flinch from questions and philosophical conundrums, and viewers are expected to do likewise. During…
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The Magic Bomb by Jonny Numb
The Magic Bomb (While Crash Palace Productions tends to focus primarily on horror media, we occasionally look at independent productions outside the genre. With The Magic Bomb, writer-director Randy Gordon-Gatica delivers an intelligent thriller on a “zero dollar” budget. The plot hinges on a sense of paranoia, terrorist threat, and tangled human drama that should…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Interview with David Wilde
Independent filmmaker, David Wilde, visits THE LAST KNOCK to discuss his latest feature, the crime thriller, Cold-Blooded Killers. The story revolves around a pair of hitmen on the Scottish Island of Arran who have three days to take out their target. David Wilde also talks about funding independent films, the making of his horror film Screen starring…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Interview with TTBO Productions and Owen McCuen
Kyle Schiffert and Ryan Fox of TTBO Productions, and actor Owen McCuen stop by to speak with Billy Crash about their latest full feature venture. The team’s creating the science fiction time travel thriller, Replace Yourself. A man goes back in time to save his wife and daughter, but he can’t come back, and his…
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QUARRIES (2017) by Billy Crash
You know those pathetic horror films, usually slashers, where the unsuspecting victims get the best of their antagonists only to beat up on them before freaking out and running away so the guy can get up again and hunt them down? This isn’t one of those. Directed and co-written by Nils Taylor, Quarries brings together…
