The Rule of Jenny Pen Film Review
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The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) Review – The Puppet Master in the Nursing Home

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“The Rule of Jenny Pen” is an unsettling psychological horror featuring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. In a New Zealand nursing home, a former judge must stop a twisted resident who uses a puppet to terrorize patients. Based on Owen Marshall’s short story, the film explores aging, justice, and institutional neglect with grimy cinematography and dread.

In Vitro - Mother of Movies review courtesy of Saban Films
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In Vitro: When Biotechnology Meets Betrayal in the Australian Outback

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In Vitro (2024) review: This Australian sci-fi thriller explores biotechnology gone wrong in the outback. With only three cast members, directors Will Howarth and Tom McKeith create a claustrophobic psychological horror about livestock cloning that turns personal. Featuring excellent cinematography by Shelley Farthing-Dawe and distributed by Saban Films, this indie gem delivers genuine tension. A minimalist and intimate horror film.

Dead Mail Film Poster
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Dead Mail 2025: When Artistic Mentorship Becomes Creative Captivity

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In Dead Mail, a postal investigator’s routine case spirals into a deadly game of cat and mouse when he uncovers a musician’s desperate plea for help, revealing a twisted tale of obsession, manipulation, and creative imprisonment.

Chad Archibalds It Feeds
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It Feeds Review: When Wolves Feast on Sheep’s Clothing

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It Feeds review: Chad Archibald’s psychological horror explores trauma, family therapy, and supernatural predation. Ashley Greene leads this atmospheric Black Fawn Films thriller about entities that feed on human vulnerability and the dangerous territory between helping and enabling.

Phobia streaming Free. A mind bending horror movie
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Phobia: A Claustrophobic Mind Maze That Stumbles in Shadows

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Phobia 2013: Jonathan MacKinlay is stuck at home, trapped not by walls, but by his own fear. Ever since the crash that took his wife, he’s lived the same lifeless routine, every day blending into the next. But lately, something feels…off. Dark visions creep in, nightmares that don’t fade when he wakes. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or is something truly sinister closing in?

BOUND Movie Review
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Bound 2025 | A Bleak Portrait of Survival in a Shattered Home

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A chaotic, emotionally raw indie drama, Bound (2025) is a bruising look at survival through the eyes of a young woman caught in cycles of trauma. Gritty, dark, and often disorienting, this passion project doesn’t ask to be liked, only to be felt. A challenging watch, but hard to ignore.