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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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Crash Palace Interview: Catching Up with Dana DeLorenzo
Dana DeLorenzo Interviews with Susan Leighton for Crash Palace Even though it has been over two years since Ash vs Evil Dead has been on the air, fans still clamor for their favorite badass, Deadite slaying heroine, Kelly Maxwell. Dana DeLorenzo, the actress behind her is equally adored and cherished by admirers of the Sam…
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We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders by Susan Leighton
When Found Footage Gets Real: The Visceral Appeal of We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders “Found Noir” is the description that has been given to Australian filmmaker, Josh Reed’s latest effort, We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders. The director knows his way around a horror film having helmed the 2010 production, Primal which cemented his…
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Never Hike In the Snow by Jonny Numb
Never Hike In the Snow: Creative Energies I’ll be honest: I was a bit hesitant to take a look at the Friday the 13th fan film, Never Hike in the Snow. For a while now, I’ve had a dismissive attitude toward “fan films” on a purely conceptual level. Why not channel your creative energy into…
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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…
