Home » Posts tagged with » MPI Media Group

James Ashcroft \ Light in the Dark Productions \ MPI Media Group \ New Zealand \ Sundance \ thriller film
Coming Home in the Dark (Killer Drifter Daymare Fuel Film)
There’s a chilling line of dialogue early in Coming Home in the Dark, the debut feature by New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft, that lays bare the film’s themes. It’s a standard thriller scene: the near, but missed, opportunity for rescue. As villain Mandrake (Daniel Gillies) and his accomplice hold a vacationing family led by […]

Dustin Mancinelli \ Madeline Sims-Fewer \ MPI Media Group \ One Plus One \ rape revenge \ Shudder
Violation (Naturalistic Rape Revenge Film)
With a few isolated exceptions (1986’s The Ladies Club), throughout the 20th century the rape-revenge subgenre was the exclusive province of male filmmakers. But since the Soska sisters threw open the doors in 2012 with American Mary, a wave of female-directed reimagined rape-revenge films has touched every corner of the cinemaverse, from New French […]