{"id":33610,"date":"2020-07-31T19:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=33610"},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T23:54:21","slug":"a-night-of-horror-nightmare-radio-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/a-night-of-horror-nightmare-radio-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cOn this stormy night, we are going to tell horror stories, because horror stories never end.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of the concept where studios or a collective of directors take various short films from indie directors and create anthology horror films in the vein of \u201cTales from the Darkside<\/a>\u201d or \u201cV\/H\/S\/<\/a>.\u201d The idea is a great one and opens up a broader audience, and allows them some great exposure. \u201cA Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio,\u201d is one of the many that\u2019s come along, mixing seven stellar horror shorts told by a lone radio DJ in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

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Alone in his studio\/home, DJ Rod Wilson (James Wright) broadcasts Nightmare Radio <\/em>into the dark of the night, telling creepy stories, discussing the supernatural, and chatting live with callers, some of whom are skeptical about the connection of his tales to reality. DJ Rod has seven tales, all of which he unfolds for his listening audience, all the while he begins to notice that something just isn\u2019t right in his home. While there\u2019s always bound to be a clunker here and there, there isn\u2019t a particularly bad short in the bunch.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s just the one or two flat horror tales that thankfully don\u2019t hinder the overall experience. My favorites include the absolutely horrifying Post Mortem Mary,<\/em> a period-set piece in the late 1800\u2019s about a mother and daughter whom photograph the recently deceased so that those grieving have something to remember them by. When the mother has to console the parents of a recently deceased girl, it\u2019s left to her young daughter to complete the task. The problem though is that the photography subject is having a problem staying still for the photograph. It\u2019s a tense, chilling and spooky tale about our fear of death, and it reminded me of the equally excellent \u201cThe Autopsy of Jane Doe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second tale The Disappearance of Willie Bingham<\/em> is a dark tale worth of \u201cTales from the Crypt<\/a>\u201d about a convict who, rather than face death row, agrees to an experimental punishment. This involves him systematically having pieces of his entire body chopped off. As he loses limbs he starts begging for death, but the iron clad contract prevents him from such mercy. It\u2019s a bizarre, and demented short that will actually make you sympathize with the slimy Willie. The Smiling Man<\/em><\/a> I reviewed years ago and is still a creepy short, as it\u00a0follows a young girl who wakes in the middle the night to find a trail of balloons leading down to a maniacal mime who will do anything to garner her friendship.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s spooky, well made, and packs a horrific punch. Vicius is the finale with a focus on the concept of grief as a woman is haunted by her friends\u2019 death and soon enough the mysterious monster that contributed to her horrific death. It\u2019s an intense, richly created short and offers a creepy final scene. The story frame directed by Luciano and Nicol\u00e1s Onetti makes up in mood and sincere tension what it lacks in originality. You can see where it\u2019s headed, but the execution is good thanks to the direction and Wright\u2019s performance that it\u2019s forgivable. As someone with a love for the horror anthology, \u201cNightmare Radio\u201d definitely fills the appetite.<\/p>\n

On DVD and Digital VOD September 1st from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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\u201cOn this stormy night, we are going to tell horror stories, because horror stories never end.\u201d I\u2019m a big fan of the concept where studios or a collective of directors take various short films from indie directors and create anthology horror films in the vein of \u201cTales from the Darkside\u201d or \u201cV\/H\/S\/.\u201d The idea is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,240,276,409,477,501,703,840,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-33610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-crime","tag-demons","tag-ghosts","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33613,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33610\/revisions\/33613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}