Worm

The Details:
Directed By: Richard Powell
Produced By: Zach Green
Country: Canada
Language: English
Color: Color

The Review:
In a flooded market of direct to dvd horror, CG blood and mainstream zombie mania it is becoming harder by the minute to find a film of genuine quality. Luckily, a needle fell out of a haystack right in front of me. Shining white and glowing like an angel. Or more appropriately, black and festering like a case of Ebola.

"Worm" is a short film from fledgling film house Fatal Pictures. However, this isn't another YouTube quality attempt to be "edgy" by some drunken college kids with a camera phone. No, once the opening shot of "Worm" graces the screen any worries of poor production quality are quickly diminished, and things never go downhill.

"Worm" is an incredibly dark, sadistic and competent psychological thriller that dives deep into the psyche of high school teacher Geoffrey Dodd. The film is carried almost entirely by Dodd's internal monologue, carefully acted by Robert Nolan. Nolan's acting and voice work maintains a perfect level of insanity that never topples into absurdity.

Lucky

The Details:
Directed by: Steve Cuden
MPAA: Rated R for strong sexual content including aberrant behavior, violence and language.
Runtime: 83 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Certification: UK:18 / USA:R

The Review:
Lucky is kind of like the weird kid that always sat in the back of the class who was never interested in talking to anyone because he was too busy drawing macabre images in his creepy black sketchbook. He wasn't popular, not interested in being cool, and definitely wasn't the life of the party. But if you gave him a chance and spent some time with him, you would find out that well...yeah he is out of his mind, but he also has a lot of worthwhile things to say.

Millard Mudd is a down on his luck cartoon writer that's low on ideas, cash, and tolerable girlfriends. His house has more beer cans littered about than a frat house on the last day of school. Despite his obvious bad hygiene and lack of any susie-homemaker ability, he is a lovable guy & much like Homer Simpson in appearance. On the inside however is an entirely different beast. His mind races haphazardly through a maniacal whirlwind of self-loathing and self-righteousness. Does being a writer go hand-in-hand with being psychotic or what? I guess I'm lucky (ba-dum-chissh) this site is only a hobby of mine.