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Anthology films are often hit or miss in story style and content. People pick their favorite segments seldom having the whole film in mind. Little or non-existent budget films can use different styles of directing, acting and story. The downfall of most is inconsistency not in the fact of lack of money but in simply the process. Watching a new anthology film by the one person who just does about everything Rusty Apper’s three-story part Artifacts Of Fear (2023) is an example of style over substance.

Filmed in Liverpool and other areas in the UK, which I picked up from some slight scouser accents and my time following a certain football club that wears red, I found Artifacts Of Fear a wonderful seventy-five-minute tight terror experience. The trouble is the actual film is a huge one hundred and ten minutes long caused by some poor choices in directing and editing...

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

After the misfire that was The Amityville Haunting, I was worried that the so-called unofficial sequels in “the franchise” would all be absolute dreck. Obviously we’re grading on a scale when it comes to low budget Dtv films, but there’s still plenty of room for ingenuity and surprises regardless of funding.

Thankfully The Amityville Asylum, a 2013 UK production, represents something of a rebound. Writer/director Andrew Jones had abandoned found footage in favour of a more traditional approach to tell the story of Lisa Templeton (Sophia Del Pizzo), a young woman who interviews for a job as a night cleaner at the relatively new psychiatric institute, High Hopes.

Obviously since this is an Amityville film, there’s a tangential connection...

Director Andrew Jones just dropped us a line along with some exclusive eye candy for you cats for his new tale of terror, The Amityville Asylum, which has just wrapped and is now in post-production. Check it out!

Written, produced and directed by British filmmaker Andrew Jones, the project is a psychological horror film loosely linked to the real life 1974 Amityville murders. The cast includes Sophia Del Pizzo (Lovely Monster), Lee Bane (Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection), Eileen Daly (Razor Blade Smile), Paul Kelleher (Night of the Demon), Jared Morgan (Vengeance Day) and Sarah Louise Madison ("Doctor Who").

Robert Graham of Independent Moving Pictures and James Plumb of Mad Science Films are executive producers, and the flick is headed our way courtesy of UK production company North Bank Entertainment.

“Although this film references the real life DeFeo case, it is a brand new story set in modern day Amityville...