Armor

Action

Available on VOD: 9 januari 2025

Director: Justin Routt

Cast: Sylvester Stallone (Expendables, Rambo, Creed), Josh Wiggins (Greyhound), Jason Patric (In the Valley of Elah, Narc, The Prince), Dash Mihok (Silver Linings Playbook, Ray Donovan)

Armored truck security guard James Brody is working with his son Casey transporting millions of dollars between banks when a team of thieves led by Rook orchestrate a takeover of their truck to seize the riches. Following a violent car chase, Rook soon has the armored truck surrounded and James and Casey find themselves cornered onto a decrepit bridge. As the truck dangles off the bridge, at risk of plunging into the water below, James and the fate of the stolen fortune  hang in the balance. With limited time before Rook and the assailants break in, James will push his skills to the ultimate limit to protect his son’s life above his own.

Terrifier 3

Horror

Available on VOD: 23 januari 2025

Director: Damien Leone

Cast: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera (Iron Fist, Terrifier 2), Daniel Roebuck (Getting Grace, The Fugitive)

Soon in cinemas. Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.

• VPRO Gids:  Knap gemaakte ‘ouderwetse’ exploitatie-splatter in een fris jasje (****). Lees het hele artikel hier.
• Nytimes.com: Nobody is pushing horror boundaries quite like the writer-director Damien Leone.
• Thewrap.com: Improves on previous entries while spurting out the blood and guts in increasingly elaborate fashions that will have Art lovers laughing and screaming.
• TheGuardian.com: The number of horror films that promise to sicken your soul and shrivel your stomach is enormous, but the proportion that actually do so, particularly for veteran horror-watchers, is small. I’m pleased to report that Terrifier 3 is genuinely gruesome.
• MovieFreak.com: I feel pummeled to the point I can barely breathe, and my entire body has an icky sensation of being covered in such overwhelming filth I wonder if I’ll be able to clean the muck off of me.
• Indiewire.com: Terrifier 3 is decking the halls with a triumphant celebration that’s horrifying for all the right reasons and snaps into focus what it is that Leone does singularly well.
• Slantmagazine.com:Mini-masterpieces of cinematic ultraviolence.
• TheNerdShepherd.com: Een waar walhalla van blood, guts and gore! Lees de recensie hier.