The amount of disbelief that needed to be suspended to make this one work was beyond what I had available to me. However, I guess seeing Robert and Lewis squabble in the street like an old married couple made it worth it on some level.

The rest of the film is spent with Lewis and Robert attempting to track down the thieves, and Lewis is ready to kill anyone who gets in his way.

So now that Lewis and Robert are working together on the same team to clean up their situation, the film can end, right? Surely there’s no more conflict. And that’s when Robert’s goddamn car gets stolen by carjackers with Ashleigh’s freaking corpse in it. 🤦‍♂️

Ashleigh’s husband Robert (played by Cy Henty) comes home to find her dead on the living room floor and Lewis dressed as a cop still inside the apartment. The writing falls apart in this scene as Lewis blackmails Robert into helping him dispose of the body.

Tess’s killer Lewis (played by Ross Alan Doney) then roams the streets of London looking for his next victim. Her name is Ashleigh (played by Nikki Marshall), and Lewis stalks and kills her accordingly.

Now full disclosure, I got reeled in by Annabella Rich, but her character Tess was dead within the first three minutes before the title even hit the screen. So no, perhaps not exactly the start that I was looking for.

Two weeks ago I featured another of S.N. Sibley’s films, Deadly Display (2023). I enjoyed that film largely thanks to Annabella Rich and Cy Henty, so seeing both of their names in the cast list for this film was a promising sign indeed.

Movie of the Day: Torture Day (2025) * This film premiered at the Romford Horror Festival in the UK on March 2, 2025. * This film was written and directed by S.N. Sibley.

The incidental music in the film is typically tries to drum up drama that isn’t there, so it often feels out of place with what you’re seeing on the screen. The acts of violence and subsequent blood spatter are fake as shit. Not a great film.

Virginia recommends that Jamie see a photographer named Mason (played by Thomas Ohrstrom), which she does. Without getting into specifics, let’s just say that the photo shoot does not exactly go as planned. This gal can’t catch a break.

At a birthday party for Laura, one of the bitches from the acting class recommends that Jamie use the services of Lars West (played by Graham Selden), a photographer who supposedly takes amazing pictures. He makes her uncomfortable in record time.

While Jamie is dumping the trash one day, she’s spotted by a Creeper (played by Nick Howell), who creepily takes her picture without her knowledge, rides the elevator with her without saying a word, and then stalks her in the garage.

Laura invites Jamie to come with her to her acting class the following day so she can introduce her to her acting teacher Virginia (played by Christina De La Ossa), who is supposedly amazing.

Jamie (played by Nika Khitrova) has just arrived in Los Angeles from London with dreams of making it as an actress. She moves in with fellow actress-in-training Laura (played by Dani Savka), and the two hit it off immediately.

I don’t know which alternate universe the Los Angeles they’re talking about is in, but the melodrama in these opening shots is altogether off the chain. 42,000? None are ever found?

As can be seen on this film’s promotional artwork, this film won a number of awards including Best Film at a number of American film festivals. I decided to take a gander at this one to see what the hoopla was about.

Movie of the Day: Headshots (2018) * This film premiered at the Culver City Film Festival in the US on December 5, 2018. * This was the second full-length feature for director Chris O’Neill, who also wrote and stars in it as well.

What Paul doesn’t know is that the dog's been exhibiting increasingly violent and sneaky tendencies. I like that this film used itself as a vehicle with which to drum up a dialogue about the moral implications and ethics of controlling life in a God-like manner. How very Satanic!

As I’d expected, the whole dog aspect of the story was just a rather transparent plot device that was needed to give Paul a reason to ultimately use his experimental growth hormone on a human. He uses it on an unborn fetus extracted from a suicide victim.

I was pleased to see Jack Colvin in the cast, playing Dr. Jim Winston. However, he’ll always be Jack McGee to me.