"'You are so good you made the Mathmos vomit!' -The Great Tyrant, Barbarella"
Jessica Baxter
Consumption (2008)
Submitted by thebaxter on 11/01/2009
Written and Directed by Richard Powell
Cast: Bruno Talotta, Andrea Nettleton
Fatal Pictures Inc
31 minutes
Consumption is inspired by the true story, so says the opening credits. And I think I recall they story they are referring to. Craigslist is good for many things, not the least of which is experimentation. Sometimes that experiment involves finding out what it’s like to eat someone. And sometimes it involves finding someone who is willing to eat you...
Lumina (2009)
Submitted by thebaxter on 10/14/2009
Directed and written by Jennifer Thym
Featuring Juju Chan, Michael Chan, Jacob Ziacan, Shell Z. Zhu, Vince Matthew Chung
www.luminaseries.com
Review by Jessica Baxter
Written, directed and produced by Jennifer Thym, Lumina is a nine-part web series set in a complex universe of rival realms that are secretly politicizing unbeknownst to the people of modern day Hong Kong. Lumina is a beautiful young girl who is inadvertently drawn into a world she doesn’t understand. Recently broken-hearted, she has immersed herself in work and become the star employee at some sort of think tank. It’s not until she meets the man in the mirror that she realized just how lonely she’s been...
Surviving Crooked Lake (2008)
Submitted by thebaxter on 10/10/2009
Review by: Jessica Baxter
Directed and Directed by Sascha Drews. Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller
Featuring Alysha Aubin, Candice Mausner, Morgan McCunn, Stephannie Richardson, Guy Yarkoni
A group of nature-loving girls who have been best summer camp friends forever decide to embark on one last canoe trip into the Canadian wilderness. Steph harbors a slight fear of water ever since she watched her father drown, so her older brother, Jonah, agrees to chaperone the excursion for moral support. Regrettably, as the title suggests, things don't go quite as smoothly as they'd planned...
Nature's Grave (2008)
Submitted by Tristan Sinns on 10/03/2009
Review by: Jessica Baxter
Directed by Jamie Blanks
Written by Everett De Roche
Featuring James Caviezel, Claudia Karvan
Peter and Carla are a married couple on the outs. In a half-assed attempt to rekindle their relationship they decide to take a romantic camping trip to a secluded Australian beach. It’s pretty clear from the get-go that this will be an epic fail. All they do is bicker, bicker, bicker. They clearly need to get divorced as soon as humanly possible. But away they go with their dog, fancy new camping equipment and Peter’s gun. Actually, Carla is ready to turn back pretty early. But Peter isn’t having it. Neither rain nor near-accidents nor getting lost will keep him from finding this spot and having a good fucking time, goddamnit!
Snow Day, Bloody Snow day (2005)
Submitted by Superheidi on 07/01/2005Written and Directed by: Faye Hoerauf & Jessica Baxter
Featuring: Justin Alley, Ben Dunn, Zach Adair, Ti Tate, Robert Boitor, Andy McCone, Gary Crawford
2005, 13 minutes
www.tangentproductions.net
Snow Day, Bloody Snow Day is one more extremely funny, and gloriously irreverent, zombie film to throw in the recent surge in zombie film parodies. Like Shaun of the Dead, Snow Day is both in awe of, and a cut above, it's predecessors like the Romero zombie trilogy and the films of Fulci. Though it's a low budget, amateur film, the concepts that underlie it are amusing and smart enough to hold the interest of any horror buff, or zombie-lover, for the entire 13 short minutes, and to get them talking about it after...
