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BROKE N’ HEARTLESS VIDEO

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One of the fun things about the horror community is all the people you get to meet and share your passion with. While talking to someone about your favourite films is fun, talking to someone about your favourite horror films adds an extra level of knowing smiles and nods to the conversation. Horror is scary, horror is disturbing but, most of all, horror is a lot of fun.

Which is clearly the ethos behind BROKE N’ HEARTLESS VIDEO and their return to a basic, analogue movie making experience.


Who?

Good question…

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GNoH Review: Clown in a Cornfield (2025)

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Written by Carter Blanchard, Eli Craig and Adam Cesare
Directed by Eli Craig

A fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge. (IMDB)

Clown in a Cornfield is a Gen-Z slasher with one foot firmly planted in the 80s. it riffs on current social divides; a modern narrative and message with a familiar and nostalgic parade of gore and fun kills.

Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror HERE

Horror Hangout Podcast: Review

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Presented by Ben Errington and Andy Conduit-Turner

A Podcast Where Film Fans Watch The Best & Worst Horror Movies EVER!
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Following my fun day out at Screams by the Sea where I got to meet Ben and Andy, as well as be briefly inteviewed by them, I have been catching up with some recent episodes of their Horror Hangout Podcast. I am ashamed to admit that I didn’t really know anything about it before I leapt in but I was, at least, coming to it completely fresh. I have listened to various horror podcasts over the years and do enjoy listening to other people talking about the films I love and generally enjoying the genre.

The Horror Hangout is comfortably familiar from that point of view. Take two big horror fans, give them a microphone or two, some special guests and let them talk; it’s a formula that everyone knows, but it works brilliantly. Of course, if you also add in some daft games like the Mount Rushmore of Horror, or Mount Rushhorror and a completely nuts title rhyming game and you get a couple of hours of entertainment that any horror fan is going to enjoy.

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Abigail (2024) – Quick Review

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Director by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick

After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl. (IMDB)

***warning – some mild spoilers***

Caught up with Abigail recently after putting it off for a while as I kept hearing mixed reviews. Well, that will teach me to disobey one of my own rules of not listening to what other people say! I had a great time with Abigail – well better that than the poor souls who kidnapped her not knowing what they were getting into.

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Sinners (2025)

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Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. (IMDB)

Michael B. Jordan plays Smoke and Stack, twin brothers returning to their Mississippi Delta roots to open a juke joint in their home town. They have been away for several years, working in Chicago, the name Al Capone being bandied about; they are tough guys with a reputation even after all this time. With a truck full of Irish Beer and Italian wine, there is also the suggestion that they might be in hot water if their old bosses find out what they have been up to. But the fear of reprisals from gangsters is nothing compared to the fear of devils and demons, rife in the superstitious South.

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Festival Review: Scarlet Blue (2024)

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Written and Directed by Aurélia Mengin

ALTER suffers from depression and schizophrenia. She consults a healer who practices mystical hypnosis and discovers that her mother is hiding a secret from her. The only breath of fresh air: a strange incandescent encounter… (IMDB)

“What the hell have I just watched?” was what flew through my mind at the end of the screening of Scarlet Blue at the Screams by the Sea festival in Bournemouth last month. Radi Nikolov, festival director introduced the movie as one that will stick with you long after the credits roll but, as I watched it, I wasn’t sure that was going to be for the right reasons. Maybe it was the 09:30 start that meant Scarlet Blue was the punch in the face that is the neon-tinged, dutch-angled, symbolism-laden movie that I emerged blinking into the light from just after 11am on a sunny morning in Bournemouth?

Maybe it’s just me?

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Screams by the Sea 2025 – A Reflection

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After my last post about “putting myself out there,” it is the day after the morning after I attended what was my first Film Festival:

Screams by the Sea 2025 at Pavillion Dance South West in Bournemouth

Supported and sponsored by silentD Pictures, the BFI Film Audience Network, the National Lottery, and TreeHouse Digital, Screams by the Sea is only in its second year, but offers up a plethora of entertainment and opportunities for its delegates. Festival Director Radi Nikolov set out to create an inclusive and friendly festival for lovers of horror and has succeeded massively in pulling together something truly special for lovers of the genre.

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GNoH Review: He Sees You When You’re Sleeping (2024)

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Written By David Lenik
Directed by Charlie Steeds

Chester returns to his home after witnessing his parents’ murders 17 years ago by a killer dressed as Santa. A new Santa killer begins killing his relatives. Chester questions if the killer returned or if a more terrifying truth exists. (IMDB)

A creepy forest at night with film frame images of a murderous Santa Claus holding an axe

He Sees You When You’re Sleeping is a perfectly serviceable slasher with a modicum of blood that takes you through the expected paces of any other perfectly serviceable slasher. It is unfortunately marred by an unlikeable protagonist and some questionable acting – and there will be obvious and unfavourable comparisons to Violent Night.

Read the full review on Ginger Nuts of Horror HERE

Quick Review: Every 7 Days

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Written and Directed by Philip Webb
Produced and Edited by Amy Livingstone

“Every 7 Days” is a short zombie film, with no zombies seen… Seen through the eyes of a mother and daughters strained relationship. Will they pull together and survive, or..?

Every 7 Days is a new short short film from writer/director Philip F. Webb. Set in the bolt-hole of a mother and daughter fighting to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, E7D gives the viewer a weekly glimpse into the slowly decaying existence of those “left behind.” We experience this through short, weekly video updates from the daughter (ruby Leonard) as she mourns the loss of her father, the psychological effects of the apocalypse on her mother, and ruminates on her own fate.

As the “biters” grow stronger and smarter, will they survive?

You can find out in just 8 minutes by giving the short a watch at the end of this review.

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Quick Review: Little Boy Missing

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Written by Lizzie Fry

Available from Amazon
I’m not the perfect wife. I’m not the perfect mother. But I didn’t do anything to harm my little boy.

Lizzie Fry is back with another tense crimey-thriller to follow-up on the equally dark and shocking, The Good Mother.

Little Boy Missing is told from the perspective of Jo, a tired and struggling mum of three boys. When her son Kyle goes missing playing hide and seek in the local park, fingers are pointed all over the place as Jo and the police try to figure out where Kyle is and whether someone took him. With Kyle’s special needs thrown into the mix, things become more fraught for Jo as she frantically searches for her boy, desperate to bring him home to where he feels safe.

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