Category: Movie Reviews

Who’s The Wolf in Dead Howling? Sure, Survival is Important, But ….

The zombies won’t be answering that in this film, which is more about pack building and survival during a zombie apocalypse that could use a faster pulse. Dead Howling is a work that is different.

Dead Howling DVD CoverKaleidoscope Home Entertainment
UK Premiere: Oct 31, 2026
Tubi FrightFest Halloween
Home Video & VOD Release: Nov 2, 2026

Between pulp and a serious tale, just where John V. Soto’s Dead Howling fits seems uncertain. I feel it leans more towards family drama rather than be a full on challenge between species. That’s because there can only be one werewolf against a massive horde of zombies! Also, when the set design suggests an abandoned present-day world with lots of rust, just where it fits when marketing describes a post-apocalyptic setting is certainly subject to interpretation!

After a zombie virus devastates the world, Carter (Joel Jackson) lives alone, spending his nights hunting the living dead for sport with the help of a tremendous power. He finds a new purpose after saving two siblings, Megan (Téa Heathcote-Marks) and Billy (Riley Stiles), who are seeking a rumoured safe zone. Unsurprisingly, this loner agrees to protect them on their search for sanctuary. Along the way, they must dodge encounters with the walking dead, random or otherwise, meet other survivors and hopefully make it out alive. This Australian-made film evokes the frontier in a few scenes. We just need more desert than suburban sprawl.

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Do the Necronomicon! Evil Dead Burn Asks Where Is It Now?

The Deadites have their own agenda, but I’m more interested in what’s hiding between the Necronomicon’s pages. Evil Dead Burn adds intriguing lore while leaving the franchise’s tangled history open to speculation.

Necronomicon Ex-MortisBack in 1979, Sam Raimi wrote, directed, and produced Within the Woods as a proof of concept that would later become The Evil Dead. And although it wasn’t a huge success at first, I knew this film’s eventual cult status helped cement the legacy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis! The reason isn’t what evoking the magiks can do, but why its continued existence, even in Evil Dead Burn, the latest film in this omniverse, is dangerous! I didn’t need to watch this film right away, but with Halloween nearly here, why not?

Variations of it have been explored across different mediums, and without it, I doubt this franchise could exist. Technically, there are three books in total, and when it can do more than summon demons, everyone should worry.

It can turn back time, offer rituals and recipes that mankind isn’t meant to know. And for those who insist on understanding every page, I’d be afraid. While mentions have been spliced in throughout the various films and unofficial material, this latest offering does something different which I like, and that’s give it a unified history that can cause some people to go mad! The ideas have been planted ever since Rise, and if it ever gets rediscovered, I’ll be running away.

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The Beast of Mossy Bottom: Four Hilarious Reasons Ewe Will Love Shaun the Sheep

Aardman’s expressive flock delivers plenty of laughs in this kid-friendly Halloween romp. Not everything has to be scary, and Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom nicely gives fans young and old something to guffaw at. And we got news too about the home video release:

Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom DVD
Available to preorder on Amazon USA now

GKIDS & StudioCanal
Available on VOD
Coming to Blu-ray and DVD January 26, 2027.

As a kid-friendly film for the season, Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings a little scare to its quiet hamlet. Shaun has come a long way since his introduction in Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995). That little sheep went on to lead his own TV series in 2007, with the Farmer, Bitzer the dog and the flock turning life into anything but a quiet country retreat. Aardman built this world around visual gags and expressive characters. Nobody needs a proper conversation for us to understand who’s causing trouble.

The leap to features gave that mischief more room to roam. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) took the flock to the big city, while Farmageddon (2019) brought an alien visitor to the countryside. For someone who loves silent films like I do, the appeal is easy to understand. A look, a gesture or a badly timed mishap can carry the joke. That’s nothing to bleat at, pardon the pun.

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Don’t You Forget About The Weird Kidz…. Life Can Be Full of Regrets Afterwards!

When The Weird Kidz knows what it wants to be in its EC Comics style movie poster, everything else about this animated nightmare coming to life simply falls into place!

The Weird Kidz 2022 Poster
After the summer Embrace the Weird Tour, the gang is ready for what’s next, a theatrical run and now streaming on your favourite service.

Now out on VOD is The Weird Kidz, an animated film that feels like The Breakfast Club meets Them! No detention brings these kids together. They’re heading past the highway and into the dark desert just to get away. Whatever’s in the air, they’re going to find out. There will be things to stop them cold and make them scream, “Is this heaven or hell?”

Okay, I’m being vague to avoid spoiling the story. High-school rebel Wyatt (Ellar Coltrane) and his girlfriend Mary (Sydney Wharton) might think they’re getting some private time, but that isn’t the case. Along for the ride are Dug (Tess Passero), Wyatt’s younger brother, and his pals Fatt (Brian Ceely) and Mel (Glenn Bolton). A few of these lads take an interest in Mary too. They’re at that awkward stage of growing up, but thankfully she can mostly keep them at bay.  Continue reading “Don’t You Forget About The Weird Kidz…. Life Can Be Full of Regrets Afterwards!”

The Fox Is Fur-Real: Mix Romance with the Supernatural and Nobody’s Safe!

A talking fox promises to fix Nick’s love life, but getting exactly what he wants comes with sinister consequences. Dario Russo’s The Fox mixes a strong cast, surreal humour and supernatural meddling into one of the oddest parables I’ve seen brought to life.

The Fox 2025 Movie Poster
Played at Toronto After Dark Festival on. Oct 18th, at the Cineplex Scotiabank Theatre

Dario Russo‘s hell-bent-for-leather feature debut, The Fox, has to be one of the oddest parables I’ve ever seen brought to life. After a documentary-style introduction narrated by Olivia Colman (Paddington in Peru), who also voices the titular animal, we meet Nick (Jai Courtney), a fox catcher who helps his father look after their rural property in the Australian outback. But that’s not quite where the film begins. Instead, the narrator suggests that any animal living out there might love to be human for a day, if not longer. After seeing how these people behave, I wonder if they’d reconsider!

Nick’s relationship with Kori (Emily Browning) is going nowhere, even after he proposes marriage. He thinks everything is fine, but she’s deeply unhappy and secretly sleeping with Derek (Damon Herriman), the husband of her best friend Diana (Claudia Doumit). It’s a messy arrangement, and Nick is the last person to recognize just how doomed his romantic future might be.

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Oh the Irony! Dead Media on VOD is Coming Sooner Than You Think!

Who needs a haunted DVD and zombie mayhem when Dead Media on VOD does it all? Namely, a reminder of why physical media still matters.

Dead Media on VOD Movie PosterComing to Prime Video, YouTube, Fandango, and Moonbeem.

With Dead Media on VOD, you’ll be glad watching it on demand won’t cost anyone their soul! This fun throwback reminds audiences why home releases matter. You can read my review here. With VHS, mixtapes and vinyl making a comeback among those who feel the future isn’t friendly, perhaps it’s time to revisit what these formats offer. As long as they’re not cursed!

That’s what Maggie and her friends face when her uncle visits and insists they watch Night of the Lurchers on disc instead of through a streaming service. Watching it digitally feels rather ironic given the story, but it’s still a hoot and a holler for those who love their zombie movies with a meaningful narrative.

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