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.

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• 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.

Take Cover

Action

Available on VOD: 13 februari 2025

Director: Nick McKinless

Cast: Scott Adkins (Dr. Strange, Grimsby, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Expendables 2), Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness, Men in Black 3)

Sam Lorde (Adkins) has spent a lifetime killing people. After a hit gone wrong, he finds himself disillusioned and lacking purpose, deciding to retire as a hitman. His final job however, results in him being a target himself. With little to no cover, he must fight with everything he has to survive...
TAKE COVER is a relentless, pulsepounding action thriller that will leave audiences on the edge of their seats.

• Anygoodfilms.com: Take Cover admirably demonstrates yet again Scott Adkins action star credentials are beyond reproach and far above many of his contemporaries.
• Avforums.com: High concept action romp that delivers the goods.
• Bloodbrothersfilms.com: It's highly entertaining, moves like lightning, and never loses sight that the action and narrative must serve its concept.
• Blu-ray.com: Blasts of action do register as intended. Adkins also receives a chance to show off his thespian skills, handling the complexity of Sam with care.
• Bulletproofaction.com: Take Cover has all the elements that will appeal to the action crowd, but plenty of other strong points that may appeal to a larger audience.
• Eyeforfilm.co.uk: Engaging characters and expertly delivered action. Adkins does a remarkably good job of making Sam feel like a real, genuinely troubled human. Take Cover is nicely put together and a lot of fun to watch.
• Gazettely.com: Tight, suspenseful direction from McKinless within a single setting. Adkins owns the leading role with action prowess and nuanced drama.
• Markreviewsmovies.com: Effective as a suspenseful thriller with bursts of brutal action and a compelling lead performance.
• Voicesfromthebalcony.com: an enjoyable action film that should lead to more director's gigs for McKinless. 

Old Guy

Action, Comedy

Available on VOD: 1 mei 2025

Director: Simon West

Cast: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained), Lucy Liu (Kill Bill, Shazam! Fury of the Gods), Cooper Hoffman (Saturday Night)

Aging contract killer Danny Dolinski still believes he’s the best at what he does. Stuck at a dead end but vying for the love of spunky club manager Anata, Danny is thrilled when The Company pulls him back in the field, but only to train Gen Z newcomer Wihlborg, a prodigy assassin with an attitude. The mismatched pair is asked to eliminate a competing crime syndicate, but uncover their employer’s true motive: removing the old guard in a full takeover. The Company didn’t anticipate that Danny's experience coupled with the kid’s brilliance would create such an unlikely bond between the two. With Anata’s crucial help, the duo turns it all back on The Company.

• Thedailybeast.com: The performances from its trio of leads hold enough action-comedy charm to make it worth checking out.
• Latimes.com (Spanish):  Met zijn natuurlijke charisma brengt Waltz een personage tot leven dat de aandacht van de kijker vasthoudt en hem tegelijkertijd vermaakt.
• Assignmentx.com: Waltz gives energy to Danny’s frustration, and Hoffman puts nuance in Wilhborg’s studied calm and increasing exasperation.
• Northshoremovies.wpcomstaging.com: Meets expectations for an action comedy while harkening back to the similarly plotted Burt Reynolds film "Breaking In" (1989). Generational change is a story that will never get old.
• Thirdcoastreview.com: I’m still having a blast watching Hoffman come into his own and test his limits as an actor, while Waltz is the veteran who still knows how to surprise us sometimes.
• Movieweb.com: Waltz can do no wrong with his towering screen presence. A lesser actor wouldn't have been believable as an old-school badass. He's endearing, fun to watch, and anchors Danny's bond between Anata and Wihlborg. That warrants a recommendation for breezy, no-frills entertainment.
• Edwarddouglas.substack.com: I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing more of these characters, since they end up having such strong dynamics, and to me, that’s a testament to a film that works well.
• Cbr.com: One of the few action movies with heart. With that in mind, it may have just as much staying power as some of the films it's looking up to.

72 Hours

Action, Thriller

Available on VOD: 28 augustus 2025

Director: Christian Sesma

Cast: Cam Gigandet (Priest, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn II, Easy A), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass, Neighbours), Jana Kramer (Chicago Fire), Sam Trammell (Homeland, True Blood)

Two brothers – one a determined FBI agent, the other a brilliant international money launderer – must set aside their differences to save their family. Together, they embark on a deadly mission: a daring extraction deep in the heart of a cartel boss’s deadly territory. With the constant threat of betrayal and violence, every step becomes more perilous as their family’s fate hangs by a thread.

• Markreveiwsmovies.com: The fraternal conflict, between a man of the law and another who breaks it, is intriguing.

Shadow of God

Horror

Available on VOD: 28 augustus 2025

Director: Michael Peterson

Cast: Mark O'Brien (Ready or Not, Arrival), Jacqueline Byers (Bad Samaritan), Shaun Johnston (Heartland), Josh Cruddas (Resident Evil)

When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home to spend time with childhood friend, Tanis, and await orders from the Church.

However, this small town holds dark secrets about Mason's past and the religious organization once run there by his father, Angus. Thought dead, Angus reappears, forcing a reunion between father and son. But Angus is different now, and before long, Mason suspects he’s possessed, not by the devil, but by something… holy.

When Mason attempts to exorcise the holy presence from his father, he sets off a chain of events that may end in a cataclysm of biblical proportions testing everything he holds sacred..

• Cuttothetake.com: The protagonist, Mason Harper (Mark O’Brien), is a total badass.
• Heavenofhorror.com: The origin story of these two characters, which admittedly is covered successfully in flashbacks, was extremely fascinating to me.
• Mailnewsgroup.com: Mark O’Brien takes on the lead role, carrying much of the film’s emotional weight. He gives Mason Harper enough edge to feel human—haunted, flawed, and compelling.

It Feeds

Horror

Available on VOD: 4 september 2025

Director: Chad Archibald

Cast: Ashley Greene (Twilight Saga), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men films, The Following), Ellie O'Brien, Juno Rinaldi

After a young girl bursts into their home psychiatry practice claiming an entity is feeding on her, Jordan and her clairvoyant mother must find a way to stop the force before the girl is taken completely.

• Caseymoviemania.com: Ashley Greene and Ellie O’Brien Elevate Chad Archibald’s Visceral Psychological Horror. It Feeds is the kind of horror movie that grabs you by the throat and never lets go.
• Hmuncut.com: It Feeds Is a Gripping Supernatural Slow Burn That Sinks Its Claws Into Parenthood and Dread. It proves there’s still room in the genre for smart, heartfelt supernatural storytelling—especially when it’s anchored by performances this strong and direction this confident. Horror thrives on human fear, and It Feeds knows exactly where that fear lives.
• Horrorfuel.com: An intriguing film that aficionados of dream-based fright fare and grief-driven horror will want to give a watch.
• Projectedfigures.com: Layers reality with dreams and dreams-within-dreams, while thoroughly confounding the vehicle and tenor of its own metaphor to unsettle the viewer.

Prisoner of War

War

Available on VOD: 19 september 2025

Director: Louis Mandylor

Cast: Scott Adkins (Dr. Strange, Grimsby, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Expendables 2), Peter Shinkoda (The Predator, Godzilla)

James Wright is a British Wing Commander sent in on a last ditch effort mission to help the allied American and Filipino forces stave off the Japanese as they take control in the bloody Battle of Bataan and solidify their stronghold on Southeast Asia. As the sole survivor of his mission, Wright is taken prisoner and brought to a POW camp, where he is to await deployment into the "death march" across the island. When the Japanese leader of the camp, Lt. Colonel Ito, discovers that Wright was trained to fight traditionally in Tokyo prior to the war, he begins to test the prisoner’s will by forcing him to repeatedly fight for his life against Ito’s most skilled warriors. Ito grows frustrated as Wright’s spirit, nor his back can be broken, as he defies the odds against him, and stirs hope back into his fellow prisoners’ will to survive.

Kryptic

Horror, Thriller

Available on VOD: 25 september 2025

Director: Kourtney Roy

Cast: Chloe Pirrie (The Queen's Gambit), Jeff Gladstone (The Killing), Jason Deline (The Night Agent), Ali Rusu-Tahir

Kay is in trouble. A strange encounter in the woods has left her with no memory. Only one thing is certain: she is the spitting image of missing monster hunter, Barb Valentine. When an intruder breaks into her house, she runs, with no idea where she’s going; but she knows her only chance to reconnect is to shed more light onto Barb’s mysterious disappearance. Random encounters seem to point her in the right direction, but what was hoped to be a journey of self-discovery gradually becomes a hunt for the monster itself.

• Rogerebert.com: Chloe Pirrie is impressive as Kay Hall, a woman who goes on a trek to find a mysterious Bigfoot-like creature who may have run off with a local scientist.
• Eyeforfilm.co.uk: Some fantastic original work by the special effects team. Not only are these scenes rather glorious in themselves, but they reveal an unusually positive side to alienation as the film gradually tips into a celebration of what its protagonist might discover by leaving her old identity behind.
• Projectedfigures.com: This is what makes Kryptic as much a 'good for her' revenge story as a monster movie, where close attention is required to chart the precise coordinates of Kay's picaresque, escapist walk on the wild side.
• Sunshinestatecineplex.com: Pirrie is able to convey her character’s fear, confusion, and vulnerability through facial expression alone.
• Scariesthings.com: The main draw of the film is Pirrie's outstanding performance as a woman whose brush with a mysterious entity thrusts her into a mystical world in which time is bent.

Osiris

Action, SF

Available on VOD: 2 oktober 2025

Director: William Kaufman

Cast: Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Max Martini (The Purge, Bosch - Legacy, Saving Private Ryan), Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool I and II, Lucifer)

A team of Special Forces commandos wake up on an alien spacecraft with no memory of how they arrived. They quickly discover they are being hunted by a merciless alien race.

• Blueprintreview.co.uk: The visuals are slick (the flick has a cool dark future vibe), Kaufman wrings some welcome tension out of proceedings, and there is a great opening sequence following the Jupiter 1 satellite as it makes its way through the galaxy. But action is the name of the game here and its quality stuff, Kaufman and his crew squeezing creative energy out of the multiple humans vs aliens firefights. Great to see Kaufman applying his style/knack for action to sci-fi and Osiris is a good introduction to his films if one has not yet checked them out. Good fun.
• Filmhounds.co.uk: Osiris delivers a mostly exciting viewing experience that will likely resonate with fans of classic, action-packed science fiction. From the outset, the film successfully captures a familiar yet fresh sense of sci-fi adventure. While the film's commitment to high-octane sequences could be an issue for some, it cannot be denied that it provides a constant rush of adrenaline that keeps you engaged from beginning to end.
• Gazettely.com: Max Martini carries the role of the squad leader with a commanding, weary presence that anchors the chaos around him. He projects a believable mix of grim determination and exhaustion. he film’s most recognizable face is Linda Hamilton, whose appearance feels like a delightful nod to sci-fi history.
• TheGuardian.com: More enjoyable than all but the most skillfully rendered digital efforts.
• Toisto.net: A surprisingly inventive and charming sci-fi-actioner. Other delights include a wonderfully hammy Linda Hamilton as a Russian special ops fighter stranded inside the alien ship, one fantastic set piece at the end, and a gruffly appealing leading performance from Max Martini, who appears to be having a ball.
• Starburstmagazine.com: Osiris is actually fitfully entertaining in a relentless fashion. The endless gunfights are well staged and the alien design does the job of meeting the demands of the story.

Savage Hunt

Thriller

Available on VOD: 9 oktober 2025

Director: Roel Rein

Cast: James Oliver Wheatley (The Last Supper), Priya Blackburn (Bohemian Rhapsody), Katrin Vankova (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), Colin Mace (Last Night in Soho)

A vengeful tracker is brought in to hunt down a large grizzly bear that starts attacking humans when a new local resort begins being built.