Cinema Axis » Daniel Lackey

Low-budget horror filmmakers Rob Grant (director/co-writer) and Mike Kovacs (co-writer) turn the camera on themselves and blur the line between reality in fiction in their latest effort, Fake Blo...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/11/24/bits-2017-fake-blood/

Buckout Road is real, a stretch of road near the New York suburb of White Plains, and over the years a number of urban legends have grown around it. In colonial times, they say, women were burned...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/11/21/bits-2017-buckout-road/

Filmmakers John Ainslie (director/co-writer) and Alyson Richards (co-writer) give the venerable Haunting of Hill House formula a vigorous workout in The Sublet. Joanna (Tianna Nori) and Geoff (...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/11/27/bits-2016-the-sublet/

Horror and humor have often formed an uneasy alliance, taking many forms from subdued stomach-churning satire to outrageous gross-out comedy. With Holy Hell, writer/director/star Ryan LePlante de...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/11/23/bits-2016-holy-hell/

Oh look! Another found-footage movie. Directed by Nick McAnulty and Brian Allan Stewart, Capture Kill Release follows a young couple played by—and named after—Jennifer Fraser and Farhang Gha...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/11/22/bits-2016-capture-kill-release/

The month of January has a reputation as a dumping ground for theatrical releases the studios don’t have much faith in. In the case of The Boy, the latest directorial effort from William Brent...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/01/25/the-boy/

Humans seem to possess an innate aversion to change. As adults, we understand we must fight stagnation, but children rely on routine and the familiar for comfort and learning. To a child, even t...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/12/08/goodnight-mommy/

Horror fiction often is at its best when we can associate its fantastic monsters with our own concerns, frustrations, and anxieties. But outright allegory requires something of a deft touch to ke...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/11/29/bits-2015-the-dark-stranger/

Legendary Canadian independent filmmaker Larry Kent takes on extreme Christian fanaticism in his latest effort. She Who Must Burn details the conflict between Angela (Sarah Smyth), a family-pla...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/11/23/bits-2015-she-who-must-burn/

Like any storyteller, visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a set of themes and ideas that recur throughout his body of work. Children, lacking at least one biological parent if not both, fo...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/10/20/crimson-peak/

Charlotte (Ine Marie Wilmann) teaches dance to young children in Oslo. One day, a man (Simon J. Berger) visits her at her studio. “I just wanted to have a look at where you work,” he tells he...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/09/15/tiff-2015-homesick/

There used to be a country in southeastern Europe named Yugoslavia. It was part of the communist eastern bloc, and when that bloc fell, so too did Yugoslavia. Armed conflicts raged across those ...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/09/14/tiff-2015-the-waiting-room/