Director: Aditya Vishwanath
Year released: 2016
THE CHARGE: If a shadow falls and no one's around to hear it, does it make a good movie?
THE EVIDENCE: Senka and Jonas are a young couple in the early stages of building a life together when Jonas throws a monkey wrench into their plans by getting himself perished. But Senka won't let him get away that easily. Ignoring the "till death do us part" section of their vows, she makes a Faustian deal with a demon named Amis to bring Jonas back to her. Things then take some very bad turns, because Shadows Fall wouldn't be much of a horror film if everything went smoothly.
Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Year released: 2010
THE CHARGE: Taking advantage of a killer real estate market
THE EVIDENCE: Young urban professional Cheng, working multiple jobs, finally scrapes up what she thinks is enough cash for a down payment on a luxury apartment. Sadly, a sudden surge in the housing market jacks up the price and puts it out of her financial reach. But she REALLY wants this apartment. She wants it so badly, she'd be willing to kill or die for it. Well, maybe not die...
Director: Anders Jacobsson
Year released: 1995
THE CHARGE: Practicing evil without licensing or documentation of proper training. Record keeping is important, people!
THE EVIDENCE: Evil Ed opens with a scene of a film editor sitting in front of an editing machine. You see, kids, in years gone by, movies were recorded on something called "film" and this "film" had to be manually cut and sliced together in order to create a movie. Well, the person in front of this particular machine is going completely mental and when the head of the movie studio enters the room to tell him to knock it off, the editor puts a grenade in his own mouth and pulls the pin. After being covered with gore, the studio head promptly fires the deceased editor.
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Year released: 2015
THE CHARGE: Forcing a head-on collision between two distinct film genres and charging admission to view the wreckage.
THE EVIDENCE: A couple of no-good sidewindin' bushwhackin' varmints stumble upon a burial ground and before you know it, one of them ends up deceased. The other takes refuge in a town run by Sheriff Kurt Russell and his majestic sheriff-y beard, but he may have unwittingly led some rather agitated cannibalistic tribesmen to an all-you-can-eat buffet. But the cannibals prefer to get their food to-go, and drag some townsfolk back to their caves. Will Sheriff Kurt and his beard save the day?
Director: Patrick Brice
Year released: 2014
THE CHARGE: He's a creep. He's a weirdo. What the hell is he doing here?
THE EVIDENCE: Josef is dying. He advertises on Craiglist for someone to film his last days, and to impart wisdom to a young son who will grow up without ever getting to know his father. Aaron answers the ad and it doesn't take long before he gets the sense that there's something... off about Josef. But hey, a job's a job, right? Even if it's the last job Aaron might ever take...
