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A Hard Place had some impressive looking special effects, and it was fun spotting all the different iconic horror actors. In the aftermath of a robbery that left one of their targets dead, the leader of a group of career criminals, Zenia (Lynn Lowry - Wolf Hollow, Cynthia) takes them to a remote safe house in the middle of nowhere. This group who include among them tough guy, Hurt (Kevin Caliber - Craving, Tales of Frankenstein) his violent girlfriend Candy (Jennifer Michelle Stone II - Dr. Gift), mild mannered Fish (Rachel Amanda Bryant - Craving), and pragmatic White (Scott Alan Ward) soon find themselves in a lot of trouble.

The story was a bit lacking though, as much as I normally prefer style over substance, I did wish that the plot had been a bit more memorable. Still, plenty of violent death scenes, great costume and makeup design made for an enjoyable horror. A Hard Place debuts on VOD on May 27th, streaming on all major platforms across North America.

A truly masterful meditation on how extreme ideas spread online and bleed into real life, especially in the wake of the #metoo movement, cancel culture and marxisim. Chris Mills was pretty good in it and can make a solid protagonist but unfortunately it doesn't hold still.

Nah I'm just kidding this is garbage and the characters are cartoonishly poorly developed. There is not a single scary or creepy moment. I did give it 2 stars because the ending is so comical, which makes me think this might secretly be an absurdist farce. Also, it looks okay for a 100$ budget movie shot in a guys single room apartment.

A minute in, and you can't hear the dialogue because there is a beat in the background on loop. Fantastic sign. You increase the volume to hear the actor's mumbling. BAMM. A shootout and the sound effects are 500% louder than the dialogue. Fantastic. The title starts with music. Some sort of exposition is given through fake news reports. Can't hear it because of the music.

What I'm trying to say is that releasing films where the sound mixing was obviously done by a deaf person is an insult to your audience. I'm not asking for perfection, just basic competence.

Even a character exclaims "You've got to speak up!" at one point.

Okay, fine, the sound sucks. This is a movie called "Bermuda Island," what did I expect?

Tom Sizemore is in this. It's one of the 70 films he shot the last year before his death, and he looks rough. Like real rough. The other actors are unknown to me and for good reason. They play a motley crew that end up stranded on an island when their plane crashes.

Plot-twist, the island is inhabited by some kind of humanoid monster men, but are the real monsters or are the humans invading their island the real monsters? Yes, the monsters are the real monsters.

The island might be in the Bermuda triangle. The movie title suggests it, but I couldn't hear enough of dialogue to confirm it. It's amazingly bad and not in a fun way.