THE DOMESTICS is obvious in its influences and may not reinvent the wheel, but it sure as hell wraps it in bloody chains, lines it with bladed rims and sends it flaming down a hill paved with determined intention.
Christian Alexander Morán’s LET'S PLAY DEAD GIRL is a short film that explores the motivations that drove two 12-year-old girls to attempt to murder another teen as a sacrifice to the Slender Man.
While the thriller-on-the-internet trope has been done before, SEARCHING offers a tense and engaging experience backed by genuine emotion.
Despite some stilted moments, BLACK WAKE is a wild, engaging feature that is not at all reluctant to embrace its crazy.
It might have aimed to put Montreal on the horror map as a hotbed of filmmaking talent, but is so parochially focused it’s unlikely viewers outside the city will get much out of it.
