James C. Burns – MRQE

Butcher House (V)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the 1960’s at Arthur Kingston’s old butcher house blood and guts were routine. That all changed one night when the blood spilled was human. At the hand of a murderous, rampaging butcher, two workers and the owner’s son were killed. The factory was shut down. Decades pass. The massacre became a legend, but the abandoned butcher house still held the evil in its halls. As six teenagers explore the old butcher house, they unleash the horror that lies within.

2081

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is “finally equal….” The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage.

Decadent Evil II (V)

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sugar the good vampire, her boyfriend Dex, and Marvin the homunculous attempt to hunt down a powerful vampire in order to resurrect Marvin’s dead son.

Zero Contact

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Produced in 17 different countries entirely virtually during the 2020 global pandemic, the film follows five characters based all over the world, connected only by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart. Forced to work together to shut down Harts most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankinds problems or the end of the earth.

Alien: Harvest

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes the crew. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight all along. Alien: Harvest is one of six short films produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 1979’s Alien.

Courier X

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

A surreptitious smuggler gets solicited by the CIA to help cover-up the Nicaraguan blackmail attempt on the CIA, after the release of “Dark Alliance”, by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Gary Webb. – Karl Wachsmann

Coldwater

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.

Silver Falls

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to find the killer is very close to her.

Dead Season

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island somewhere in the Caribbean. On the island, they find a new community struggling to hold out against an army of corpses. They can join this band of survivors– but only if they can do what must be done for the good of the group.

A Darker Reality

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of women wake up in a cold cement basement. Drugged and terrified they find themselves captive to a depraved psychopath whose blood-lust and insanity knows no bounds. Police Detective Balasco and psychiatrist Dr. Metcalfe team up in a desperate attempt to locate the girls and their soon to be murderer – a serial killer known as Ghost (Daniel Baldwin). But time is running out as Ghost’s sick experiments begin to leave the girls tortured beyond recognition. To survive, the girls must band together in a last attempt to save themselves from a fate far worse than death.