Tuesday 23 December 2014

Greg Klymkiw's 10 BEST HORROR/SCI-FI/FANTASY/ACTION FILMS of 2014 - Many of these films were first unleashed at such film festivals and venues as TIFF 2014, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Hot Docs 2014, Toronto After Dark 2014, FantAsia 2014, FNC 2014, BITS 2014, NIFF 2014, The Royal Cinema and the Magic Lantern Carlton Cinemas


Berkshire County
Dir. Audrey Cummings, Scr. Chris Gamble, Prod. A71 Productions, High Star Entertainment, Narrow Edge Productions
Pigs, you see, are lurking in the woods. Not just any pigs, mind you, but a family of travelling serial killers adorned in horrifying pig masks. And these sick fuckers mean business.


The Editor
Dir. Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Scr. Brooks, Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Prod. Astron-6
Blonde Stud: So where were you on the night of the murder?
Blonde Babe: I was at home washing my hair and shaving my pussy.


Ejecta
Dir. dir. Dir. Chad Archibald, Matt Wiele, Scr. Tony Burgess, Prod. Foresight Features
There are no happy-faced hairless alien midgets gesticulating Zoltán Kodály Hand Signals whilst smiling at a beaming Francois Truffaut. No-siree-Spielberg. These mo-fos induce horror that inspires drawer-filling of the highest order.

Hellmouth 
Dir. John Geddes, Scr. Tony Burgess, Prod. Foresight Features
To both the living and perhaps even the dead, old graveyards are as comforting as they are creepy. Screenwriter Tony Burgess seems to understand this better than most and as such, he's crafted one of the most deliciously insane horror treats of the new millennium.

Honeymoon
Dir. Leigh Janiak , Scr. Phil Graziadei, Janiak, Prod. Fewlas Entertainment
An extrication violates an opening of extreme indelicacy. It inspires, not only horror, but deep shame. Beware the forest. Beware the night. Most of all, beware the light.

Late Phases
Dir. Adrián García Bogliano, Scr. Eric Stolze, Prod. Larry Fessenden
Just after a full moon, there is a period of calm in werewolf country as the glistening orb settles benignly into its last quarter, new moon and then, first quarter phases. It's here, during this month of calm where one can best prepare for the next onslaught of a werewolf attack. Ambrose, played by Nick Damici, one of the best actors working in America today, is a blind man. That won't stop him, though. A lycanthrope must be taken out.

Oculus
Dir. Mike Flanagan, Scr. Flanagan, Jeff Howard, Jeff Seidman, Prod. Lasser Productions
During a disquieting evening, a Hunky Brother (fresh out of the loony bin) and his Babe-o-licious Sister (having prepared both of them for the worst), square off against an antique mirror which, during their childhood, transformed their happy Daddy into a hot-headed abuser and their Hot Mama into a willing victim of torture at the hands of mega-bunyip hubby-pants.

See No Evil 2
Dir. Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Scr. Nathan Brookes, Bobby Lee Darby, Prod. WWE Studios
It's a quiet night night in the city morgue, but not for long. Soon it will be flooded with corpses from a nearby mass-killing-spree, including the body of the killer himself, the seven-foot, 300-pound, Jacob Goodnight. The lad's merely been resting. Now he's ready for more naughty horseplay.




Time Lapse
Dir. Bradley King , Scr. King, B.P. Cooper, Prod. Uncooperative Pictures, Veritas Productions
Twilight Zone-like science fiction and horror dips its toe into the film noir territory of a criminal underbelly when a trio of young people happen upon a mysterious camera that seems to have the power to capture images from the future and a malevolent scum-bucket bookie wants his piece of the action. Mounting greed, sexual tension and backstabbing eventually ooze into the buoyant shenanigans. Genre-bending murder and mayhem aren’t far behind.

Wyrmwood
Dir. Kiah Roache-Turner, Scr. Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner, Prod. Guerilla Films
This white-knuckle roller coaster ride through the unyielding Australian bushland focuses upon a family man (who's had to slaughter his family when they "turn" into zombies) and a ragtag group of tough guys, equip themselves with heavy-duty armour, armament and steely resolve to blast through hordes of flesh-eating slabs of viscous decay and careen on a collision course with a group of Nazi-like government soldiers who are kidnapping both zombies and humans so a wing-nut scientist can perform brutal experiments upon them. Scary-ass thrills in the best action film of the year.

These terrific films were launched during a myriad of great film festivals like Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Montreal's FantAsia International Film Festival, TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival and the Blood in the Snow Film Festival. They are officially being released via VSC, Raven Banner, Elevation Pictures, A-71, Anchor Bay Entertainment (Canada), IFC, Relativity Media, Magnet Releasing and MPI. They have all, or will be soon available on a variety of media. They can be ordered by clicking on the various links below

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