Overdue Review: Nightmare House Volume 1

Good day Friends and Neighbors!   Today’s installment of Overdue Reviews is about something you have probably heard us talking about on here from time to time.  Fewdio’s Nightmare House Volume 1 is a collection of short films by one of the rising stars in the world of Horror.  They create nightmares.    This series runs the gamut from humor to absolute horror – and most often they are masterfully intertwined.   In the vein of Tales from the Crypt and the Twilight Zone, this DVD collects some of the internet shorts and frames them around the locale of the Nightmare House.   Highlights from the DVD include:

The Collector:  Directed by Drew Daywalt and David Schneider; starring Azure Parsons, this tale is a must see of all of the fans of justice horror.   The tale is all about that all too possible scenario that is in the back of our minds every time we go into a parking garage late at night.  All alone, our heroine is assaulted by a creep who is hiding underneath her car.  He attacks and takes her back to his sinister lair.  Much like in The Last House on the Left, Mr. Rapist has another thing coming.   Soon the victim becomes the victor with the use of her specialized abilities.  I won’t ruin the end for you but I will say that the Collector is very good at what she does…

The Prey:  Directed by Steven Johnson; starring Karl Calhoun.  Here we have an example of dark comedy at its finest.   This is the kind of story that really gives hope to all of those who have ever been wronged in the world; a tale that exemplifies the horror trope wherein the guilty are punished for their crimes one way or another.   The street thugs make their living off of the suffering of others.    One day Del, Lincoln and Daryl decide to rob an old crippled man who was exchanging jewelry for money.   So they proceed to thug up and go to his home and threaten him.  Soon they discover that the old man is not so helpless as they thought.  Next thing you know it is their blood on the floor and their gold the old man is selling. 

The Tale of Haunted Mike:  Directed by Drew Daywalt and David Schneider; starring Mike D’Alonzo.  Haunted Mike sells items and trinkets on eBay.  Mike is a bit of a scam artist, selling various items as haunted or cursed to the hapless folks in eBay land.   He has made a decent living at it.   He acquires old items of no particular value and gives them a new history.   Soon however, his luck seems to change.  In what would be a standard sale of a little girl’s prosthetic arm, given the back story of a curse and murderous history, Mike comes across a very real nightmare. 

Nightmare House Volume 1 features thirteen fantastic horror shorts that I highly recommend.  From the humorous and witty The Easter Bunny is Eating My Candy that shows that parents should listen to their kids sometimes to the absolutely terrifying psychological terror that is Cleansed - good times will be had with this one Friends and Neighbors.  You will never get in your car the same way after watching Creep and you will think twice about cheating on your girl after viewing Anniversary.   So get out there and watch it!

Be Excellent to Each Other,

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