The DTV Digest

This week Mike and Amanda check out four new releases - as usual, click the links to see a trailer for each film!

 

MATCH (Signature Entertainment) is a cautionary tale about what NOT to do on a first date!

ITHAQUA (Kaleidoscope Film Distribution) sees Luke Helmsworth as a fur trapper/hunter who encounters supernatural shenanigans during a bitterly cruel winter...

SOUL SNATCHERS (Seven Tales) finds an evangelical family arrives on a Caribbean island, and butting heads with the local religion...

ZIP WIRE (Signature Entertainment) sees a cancer researcher on a mountain climbing holiday trapped on a zip wire! (NB: I erroneously mention the film Alpha, saying it starred Charlize Theron - obviously I was referring to the film, APEX!)

Rich joins us to discuss our Short Shot: FORSAKEN MERCENARY is a pilot tv episode for a futuristic action movie.  Click the link to see the whole short!

Our DTV Throwback is GUYVER: DARK HERO, which is being re-released via Toy Robot Video.

In our latest roundup of short films, Mike and Rich take a look at eight recent releases - click the links to see each film!

ANOMOLOUS sees a witchfinder interrogating a woman who uses tea leaves to read people's fortunes...

DEAD ECHO is a Star Wars fan film about a downed TIE-Fighter pilot...

DONT.4GET2SMILE finds an influencer being stalked by a friend's killer...

FIVE STAR sees a handyman going to great lengths to secure a yelp review....

FRUIT HEAD sheds light on a banned ad for a fruit candy....

POP MONSTERS involves a group of women undertaking challenges to win a concert ticket...

SHADOW YOU finds a graphic designer being shadowed by her 16yr old self as a coping mechanism....

THE FLACALTA EFFECT is set in a zombie apocalypse where two sisters are trying to survive...

Our Short Throwback is DIASPORA, in which a young woman wonders why all the persons of colour in her neighborhood are being replaced!

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In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda take a look at three new releases; as usual click the links to see a trailer for each film!

 

We kick off with R L STINE'S PUMPKINHEAD  (Signature Entertainment), a horror movie for kids which contains actual horror!

49 MILES MORE (Reel2Reel Films) finds 2 friends, Max and Doug, stranded on their way to a Guys Weekend....

THE DEMON DETECTIVE (Miracle Media) delves into Constantine territory with its melding of hardboiled detective and exorcist storyline.

Our Short Shot is SIMON SAYS, in which a birthday party turns into a deadly massacre with the arrival of the "entertainment". Click the link to see the whole film!

Our DTV Throwback is IRON EAGLE IV (aka Iron Eagles On The Attack!) Lou Gossett Jr reprises his role from the other films, but Jason Gedrick is replaced by Jason Cadieux  as Doug Masters, looking after a Flying School for Juvenile Delinquents! We found the film on Youtube, HERE.

In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda tackle five new releases - click the links to see trailers for each film!

 

We kick off with CHUM (Plaion Pictures) another "shark peril" movie but with a decent twist!

DEADLY GAMES (Miracle Media) finds four influencers invited to a secluded island for...some reason...

HARBINGER (Miracle Media) is the latest from Shogun Films and blends together some of my favourite genre tropes!

HELLCAT (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is about a young injured woman trapped in the back of a camper van, not knowing who to trust....

THIS TEMPTING MADNESS (Plaion Pictures) - marks the SEVENTH film this year to feature a woman suffering from amnesia. Good job its still worth checking out!

Our Short Shot is SACRIFICE, in which a young woman learns her partner has joined a peculiar social group and has a strange request for their barbeque! Click the link to watch the whole short film!

Our DTV Throwback is THE ENEMY, in which Luke Perry must find out who's kidnapped his father and why. Here's the Youtube link; it should be available on other screening platforms.

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In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda tackle seven new releases. NB: This episode was recorded in two sessions as not everyone was available on the same day. 

As usual, click the link to be taken to a trailer for each film!

 

We kick off with THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT (Acorn), an adaptation of a survival horror video game!

Renny Harlin returns to shark territory with DEEP WATER (Signature Entertainment).

THE FIRES (Signature Entertainment) is an Icelandic disaster movie featuring erupting volcanoes...

MOCKBUSTER (Miracle Media)  is a documentary charting a film-maker's journey directing a film for The Asylum...

THE MORRIGAN (Thunderbird Releasing) is a folk horror set around an archeological dig site in Ireland

THEY WAIT IN SHADOWS (Miracle Media) is a British horror set in a small suburban house...

TINSMAN ROAD (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is a found footage/mockumentary about a man seeking answers to the disappearance of his sister many years previously.

Our Short Shot is DUPED:! - A TIME LOOP THAT BREAKS, in which a woman returns home after a bad date and is subjected to strange goings on.

The DTV Throwback is INTO THE SEA: THE REEF, a DTV sequel to the Paul Walker/Jessica Alba film. The film is available on Youtube HERE, and I'm sure other streaming sites.

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