Stars: Richard Kovacs, Connor Powles, Leona Clarke, Elliott Eason, Jon Kerr, Osian Dixon, Christabel Clark, May Kelly | Written and Directed by David Gregory
The Deadly Swarm is a great example of the downside to having a long run of good films to review. Because while you’re watching them, you know karma is going to send a real pile of shit to balance the score. And that’s certainly an apt description of this killer fly movie.
Dr. Holger Feldman is ecstatic, he’s managed to get a specimen of the rare vampire fly, and not just any specimen, this is a queen. His son Liam however is more concerned with how dangerous that fly is, apparently they wiped out the dinosaurs, not a meteor, than whether or not it could lead to a cure for the disease that killed his mother, and will kill him.
Liam may not have...
The Deadly Swarm is a great example of the downside to having a long run of good films to review. Because while you’re watching them, you know karma is going to send a real pile of shit to balance the score. And that’s certainly an apt description of this killer fly movie.
Dr. Holger Feldman is ecstatic, he’s managed to get a specimen of the rare vampire fly, and not just any specimen, this is a queen. His son Liam however is more concerned with how dangerous that fly is, apparently they wiped out the dinosaurs, not a meteor, than whether or not it could lead to a cure for the disease that killed his mother, and will kill him.
Liam may not have...
- 4/23/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Stars: Sarah T. Cohen, Amber Doig-Thorne, May Kelly, Benjamin Colbourne, Nikolai Leon, Matthew Baunsgard, Richard Kovacs, Leah Glater, Bao Tieu | Written by Craig McLearie | Directed by Fred Searle
What’s that? Sarah T. Cohen, Amber Doig-Thorne And May Kelly all starring together in another Scott Jeffrey production? Colour me intrigued… This trio are three of the best performers Jeffrey has “discovered” over the years and they’re all together in one film. Ok, Ok, so it’s a film written by Craig McLearie, who hasn’t exactly captured the magic of 2021’s Jagged Edge/Proportion Productions era with his scripts, but one can but hope right?
Let’s get this out of the way first, Alien Invasion is Such an on-the-nose title. Like seriously, you couldn’t have come up with something a little more subtle? But then when your production company has made films with titles like Snake Hotel...
What’s that? Sarah T. Cohen, Amber Doig-Thorne And May Kelly all starring together in another Scott Jeffrey production? Colour me intrigued… This trio are three of the best performers Jeffrey has “discovered” over the years and they’re all together in one film. Ok, Ok, so it’s a film written by Craig McLearie, who hasn’t exactly captured the magic of 2021’s Jagged Edge/Proportion Productions era with his scripts, but one can but hope right?
Let’s get this out of the way first, Alien Invasion is Such an on-the-nose title. Like seriously, you couldn’t have come up with something a little more subtle? But then when your production company has made films with titles like Snake Hotel...
- 11/30/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: May Kelly, Richard Kovacs, Gillian Broderick, Chris Cordell, Lauren Staerck, Karl Hughes, Julie Stevens, Marcus Massey, Elliot Eason, Kate Awoke, Lee Hancock | Written by Tom Joliffe | Directed by David Gregory
It seems like, with the recently released Firenado, that Scott Jeffrey’s Jagged Edge Productions are looking to take on the current kings of the low-budget natural disaster movie(s), The Asylum. They also share two more things in common, bad CGI and even worse acting!
Mega Lightning follows Meg (May Kelly) and a young woman who seemingly has issues with self-esteem and self-worth as she and her sister plan a party with their friends and respective boyfriends after her parents go away for a holiday. However, their plans as scuppered by an over-the-top lightning storm that seemingly targets the electricity in people like some kind of vicious [super]natural event – not only frying people alive but, in a particularly stunning shot,...
It seems like, with the recently released Firenado, that Scott Jeffrey’s Jagged Edge Productions are looking to take on the current kings of the low-budget natural disaster movie(s), The Asylum. They also share two more things in common, bad CGI and even worse acting!
Mega Lightning follows Meg (May Kelly) and a young woman who seemingly has issues with self-esteem and self-worth as she and her sister plan a party with their friends and respective boyfriends after her parents go away for a holiday. However, their plans as scuppered by an over-the-top lightning storm that seemingly targets the electricity in people like some kind of vicious [super]natural event – not only frying people alive but, in a particularly stunning shot,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Stephanie Lodge, Sophie Jugé, Barbara Dabson, Karell Vertet, Lee Hancock, Elspeth Foster, Richard Kovacs, Kate Sandison | Written by Sophie Storm K | Directed by Adam Cowie
Before going viral with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, writer, director and producer Scott Jeffrey was already tapping classic fairytales, myths and legends for his low-budget British horror companies Jagged Edge Productions and Proportion Productions – taking familiar childhood tropes and turning them on their heads, oftentimes making a bright, cheerful kids thing onto a film of sheer terror. That path has given us killer tooth fairies, evil leprechauns, a demonic cupid, a terrifying Humpty Dumpty and a Hills Have Eyes-esque duo of Jack and Jill… Perennial kid’s nursery rhyme characters turned into a couple of inbred, hillside-dwelling psychopathic killers!
Unfortunately for The Legend of Jack and Jill things fell a little flat thanks to the one-dimensional characters and the fact it wasn’t really that scary.
Before going viral with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, writer, director and producer Scott Jeffrey was already tapping classic fairytales, myths and legends for his low-budget British horror companies Jagged Edge Productions and Proportion Productions – taking familiar childhood tropes and turning them on their heads, oftentimes making a bright, cheerful kids thing onto a film of sheer terror. That path has given us killer tooth fairies, evil leprechauns, a demonic cupid, a terrifying Humpty Dumpty and a Hills Have Eyes-esque duo of Jack and Jill… Perennial kid’s nursery rhyme characters turned into a couple of inbred, hillside-dwelling psychopathic killers!
Unfortunately for The Legend of Jack and Jill things fell a little flat thanks to the one-dimensional characters and the fact it wasn’t really that scary.
- 1/25/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Nicola Wright, Richard Kovacs, Harry Moxley, Lila Lasso, Kelly Rain Sanson, Charlie Esquire, Giedre Jacket, Gillaim Broderick, Mike Kelson, Mirella Camillo, Stephen Staley | Written by Craig McLearie | Directed by Adam Cowie
The original Dragon Fury, which we reviewed back in the summer of 2021, was something of a departure for producer Scott Jeffrey. It saw the prolific producer turning his hand to a monster movie rather than an all-out horror film – tapping into that great British tradition of dragons roaming the British Isles. And now a mere 15 months later we’ve got a sequel… Dragon Fury: Wrath of Fire, or Dragon Fury 2: Return to the Mountains as it appears on the screen; picks up after the events of the first film, with that movie’s survivor, Vanessa (Nicola Wright), in hiding after being threatened by the government. However, a group of researchers find her and soon convince her to go back to the mountains,...
The original Dragon Fury, which we reviewed back in the summer of 2021, was something of a departure for producer Scott Jeffrey. It saw the prolific producer turning his hand to a monster movie rather than an all-out horror film – tapping into that great British tradition of dragons roaming the British Isles. And now a mere 15 months later we’ve got a sequel… Dragon Fury: Wrath of Fire, or Dragon Fury 2: Return to the Mountains as it appears on the screen; picks up after the events of the first film, with that movie’s survivor, Vanessa (Nicola Wright), in hiding after being threatened by the government. However, a group of researchers find her and soon convince her to go back to the mountains,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Megan Purvis, Nicola Wright, Amanda-Jade Tyler, Derek Nelson, Georgie Banks, Nicole Nabi, Thomas Loone, Marshall Hawkes, Richard Kovacs, Ricardo Freitas, David Castleford | Written by Scott Jeffrey, Craig McLearie | Directed by Scott Jeffrey, Rebecca Matthews
The second dinosaur-themed movie from producer/director Scott Jeffrey in the space of two weeks (the first being Dinosaur Hotel), Hatched sees obsessive scientist Simon (Thomas Loone) discover a way to bring dinosaurs back to life. Big mistake (obviously). His creations escape and proceed to eat him; and his wife Christine (Amanda-Jade Tyler), leaving only his son Mark alive.
Driving into this mess are Simon’s family who decide today’s the day they want to pay their estranged family member a visit. Big mistake (again). Simon’s family find him dead, eaten by his creations with only mark left behind. Only – apparently – Mark shouldn’t be alive. Yes, you’ve guessed it, Jeffrey and co.
The second dinosaur-themed movie from producer/director Scott Jeffrey in the space of two weeks (the first being Dinosaur Hotel), Hatched sees obsessive scientist Simon (Thomas Loone) discover a way to bring dinosaurs back to life. Big mistake (obviously). His creations escape and proceed to eat him; and his wife Christine (Amanda-Jade Tyler), leaving only his son Mark alive.
Driving into this mess are Simon’s family who decide today’s the day they want to pay their estranged family member a visit. Big mistake (again). Simon’s family find him dead, eaten by his creations with only mark left behind. Only – apparently – Mark shouldn’t be alive. Yes, you’ve guessed it, Jeffrey and co.
- 7/15/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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