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. 

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.

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.

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.

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Levels

Action, SF, Thriller

Available on VOD: 1 mei 2025

Director: Adam Stern

Cast: Cara Gee (The Expanse), Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue, Heroes Reborn), Aaron Abrams (Hannibal), David Hewlett (The Shape of Water, See)

50 years in the future, Joe watches in horror as his girlfriend Aislinn is brutally gunned down in front of him. The killer walks away, and then disappears seemingly into mid-air. His life shattered, Joe begins a voyage of discovery that starts with his attempted suicide, then slowly leads him to several shocking truths: His reality is not what it appears to be. He might be the only man that can save it. And Aislinn is very much alive, and desperately trying to reach him before it’s too late.

• Fearforever.com: the film is a visual feast that is well worth a trip to the big screen, fast paced and with great performances from its leads and supporting cast.
• Otakunoculture.com: This newcomer may well challenge Chris Nolan for thoughtful discourses concerning what is real in the world these days. ****.
• Punchdrunkcritics.com: Gee and Mooney prove capable and compelling in sequences that look as if they were pulled right out of a high-end video game.
• Original-cin.ca: Levels takes ideas from The Matrix, Free Guy and others to the same places. It’s slick, and well-acted.

Consumed

Horror

Available on VOD: 15 mei 2025

Director: Mitchell Altieri

Cast: Devon Sawa (Slackers, Final Destination, Escape Plan - The Extractors), Mark Famiglietti (Terminator 3), Courtney Halverson (True Detective)

When a camping trip goes horribly wrong, a woman on the edge of giving in to her secret illness must find the strength to survive when she and her husband find themselves trapped between a mad-man and a skin stealing monster.

• Spectrumculture.com: This couples camping horror succeeds on the levels most crucial to its existence: psychological tension and body trauma metaphor.
• Filmthreat.com:  The characters and their relationships are three-dimensional, and each act has plenty of twists that propel the drama and keep the pace engaging.
• Horrorville.beehiiv.com: With its rich emotional core and examination of human frailty, Consumed makes for a tasty treat - and just might scare you away from ever going camping again.
• RogerEbert.com: A great high-concept premise.