This week the Grue-Crew explore the horrors of curing the living dead with The Cured, fear the haunting house of horror with The Terrible Two, and witness the Lovecraftian spell of Black Wake. First up is the feature The Terrible Two from director Billy Lewis where a new mother suffers the paralyzing fear of her […]
Tag: Jeremiah Kipp
“Contact’’ (2009): A Surreal Hallucinogenic Experience That Leaves Us With Lots to Ponder
Contact is a short film from New York based filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp, and it’s a mind-altering experience if there ever was one. Opening with a middle aged couple (played by Katherine O’Sullivan and Tom Reid) waiting for a guest to arrive, we are immediately transported to a seedy underbelly in a derelict estate where […]
“Painkiller” (2014): Pleasure and Pain Become Equally Strong Addictions As Experiment Goes Awry
Toying with nature rarely works out successfully for even the most well-meaning of scientists in horror and science fiction films, and this axiom holds true in Action Media Productions’ engrossing short film Painkiller. As the film opens, a young scientist (Thomas Mendolia) tells a mysterious visitor (Jerry Janda, who also wrote the screenplay) about how […]