A jerk corporate executive and a frumpy analyst with survival skills are marooned on an island in Sam Raimi’s deliriously entertaining horror-comedy story of power dynamics: Send Help.
Tag Archives: Survival
47 Meters Down (2017) [Shark Week 2025]
Two sisters are on a cage dive when the unspeakable happens, leaving them trapped at the bottom of the ocean in shark infested waters, depleting oxygen, and no way to call for help.
Dangerous Animals [2025]
Surfer Zephyr is stuck on a boat with a serial killer surrounded by shark-infested waters in Sean Bryne’s sharp and thrilling Dangerous Animals. Continue reading
Survive (aka Survivre) (2024)
Now in limited theaters
When a freak storm hits their boat, a family finds themselves fighting for their lives when the ocean and dry land swap and monsters come out of the deep.
All Fun and Games (2023)
It’s really too bad that directors Eren Celeboglu, and Ari Costa’s supernatural horror movie virtually came and went without much of a trace in 2023. It’s not by any metric a complete masterpiece, but it sure is a fun little horror film packed with a lot of mythos that I wanted to learn a lot more about. “All Fun and Games” is primarily about the fragility of the family unit and how this family known as the Fletchers are thrown in to disarray and pure chaos at the drop of a hat.
Jackpot! (2024)
Now Available for Streaming on Amazon Prime.
Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is that horrible, malt-o-meal garbage movie meant mainly to be as edgy as possible without ever really intending to offend anyone. It disguises itself as social satire when really in the end it has zero to say. It’s just a flaccid hundred minutes drag through nonsense and emptiness. No one at any point in this movie seems to be mentally present, including John Cena who often looks a lot more like a walking action figure than anything else. With Feig’s premise you just assume you’d be in the market for a blood soaked science fiction film. At the very least, you’d expect a darkly comic if mean movie about greed and the way the economy has driven in to rabid dogs.
It’s actually a vanilla coming of age story with a premise that’s gradually pushed in to the background over the course of the narrative.
Demons (1985)/Demons 2 (1986): Remastered [4K UHD Blu-ray]
Available August 13th from Synapse Films.
For folks that missed the deluxe editions of “Demons” and “Demons 2” back in 2021, Synapse Films re-releases the set but on standard Blu-Ray and 4K UHD. The pair of horror classics are back on the format and still in considerable high demand. That’s not too much of a bad thing as they play very well as party movies. The 1985 Lamberto Bava horror gem finds a group of movie goers trapped in a movie theater besieged by an endless army of demons. When they realize that the theater is literally a virtual death trap, they have to find their way out alive or risk becoming one of the hordes.