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.

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. 

When Evil Lurks

Horror

Available on VOD: 6 maart 2025

Director: Demián Rugna

Cast: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater

When brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomón) discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse — its very proximity poisoning the local livestock — they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community. Now they must outrun an encroaching evil as it corrupts and mutilates everyone it is exposed to, and enlist the aid of a wizened “cleaner,” who holds the only tools that can stop this supernatural plague.

• Jan “Mr. Horror” Doense zegt: “De beste horrorfilm van het jaar. Punt. Ik heb in tijden geen film gezien die zó onder de huid kruipt en die zulke effectieve en brute jump scares bevat.”
• Schokkendnieuws.nl: When Evil Lurks is voor de geharde horrorfan die geen kotszakje nodig heeft.
• DeFilmRecensent.nl: When Evil Lurks is niet alleen anders maar ook gewoon goed. Rugna legt in het begin niets uit en laat het verhaal zichzelf vertellen. De actie is snel op niveau en dan gaat When Evil Lurks er volledig voor.
• Modernmyths.nl: Gruwelijk goede Argentijnse horror. Buiten al het demonisch geweld en de grimmige shots is When Evil Lurks ook gewoon fun.
• Slashfilm.com: This is a movie that is both familiar and fresh. Scary, yes, but mostly disturbing, gory, smart, quite expansive, and all around created in the bowels of hell itself.
• Nytimes.com: A dark and timely parable about what happens when trust - among community members, within families, between a government and its people - disintegrates.
• MovieNation: One of the most original horror films of recent memory and a pretty convincing argument to turn out the lights when you’re not using them.
• Polygon.com: 2023’s most unnerving horror release.
• RogerEbert.com: Gets great power from occasionally dropping into gory, gnarly insanity. It’s an admirably vicious piece of work.
• Eyeforfilm.co.uk: Will haunt viewers, like the awful suffering of the characters, long after the film is over.
• Inverse.com: A possession thriller unlike any that you’ve likely seen before... It's one of the boldest, most viscerally intense, and unpredictable horror movies of the year.
• 97% op Rotten Tomatoes met maar liefst 116 reviews. Lees meer quotes hier.

Get Fast

Action

Available on VOD: 20 maart 2025

Director: James Clayton

Cast: James Clayton (Minority Report (TV)), Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Longmire), Alisha-Marie Ahamed, Bradley Stryker (Cold Pursuit)

A clever Thief and his trusty partner Vic take a hedge on robbing from a criminal mastermind in order to replenish a previously lost fortune. But when Vic is kidnapped by merciless drug lord Nushi, all hell breaks loose. The Thief reluctantly partners up with an angst- ridden orphan to save Vic, but when Nushi enlists her most trusted assassin known only as ‘The Cowboy’, a loveable charmer who is quick with his guns, there is no chance in hell the Thief gets away this time.

• Action Elite:  Get Fast is a fun ride with great music and some awesome action scenes making this one of the more entertaining straight-to-video action movies I’ve seen this year.
• Voicefromthebaclony.com: a solid second film that packs a lot of enjoyable action scenes into ninety minutes.

River of Blood

Thriller

Available on VOD: 27 maart 2025

Director: Howard J. Ford

Cast: Joseph Millson (Casino Royale, Angel Has Fallen), Sarah Alexandra Marks (Witch), Louis James, David Wayman (The Ledge), Ella Starbuck (Unhinged)

Two young couples on a luxurious holiday at a jungle resort face a vacation gone terribly wrong. AJ and Ritchie, old friends from college on vacation with their partners; Maya and Jasmine, try to put their relationship troubles aside and go on an adventure. After hiring an edgy guide Nick for a kayaking tour through the jungle, the journey soon takes a dark turn when Ritchie mysteriously disappears. As they search for Ritchie, the couples unwittingly wander into the perilous territory of an indigenous tribe of cannibals known for their gruesome rituals. Their dream-vacation soon transforms into a nightmarish fight for survival on sacred land.

72 Hours

Action, Thriller

Available on VOD: 4 april 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.

Believer

Thriller

Available on VOD: 17 april 2025

Director: Sheldon Wilson

Cast: Lauren Lee Smith (The Listener, If I Stay), Ella Ballentine (The Monster, The Dark and the Wicked), Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue, Heroes Reborn), Martin Roach (The Shape of Water), Kris Holden-Ried (Lost Girl, Underworld: Awakening, Underworld: K-19: The Widowmaker)

A struggling writer finds herself at the center of the story she is covering when brutally attacked by a notorious cult leader and mass murderer, a man who exerts an inexplicable control over his followers. When she wakes in the hospital claiming no memory of the attack, the media, and eventually her own family, begin to question her real motives as well as her sanity.

• Gazettely.com: A Chilling Descent into Influence and Memory’s Façade
• Tvfanatic.blog: It shattered any theory I had and branched off into something even more brutal and shocking.
• Hmuncut.com: Filled with enough twists and turns to satisfy any movie night group with a taste for mystery and the occult.
• Heavenofhorror.com: A very intriguing mystery.
• Geekvibesnation.com: Believer is intelligent and treats its audience with seriousness and appreciation. It is a thriller in the grandest sense that leaves the audience white-knuckled right to the end.