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Edge of Isolation (2018) Movie Review

Edge of Isolation – Tries Hard to be Edgy

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Director: Jeff Houkal

Writer: Jeff Houkal (Screenplay)

Cast: Michael Marcel, Marem Hassler, Alexandra Peters, Monte Markham, Judi Barton, Diana Elizabeth Jordan

Plot: Stranded deep in the woods, a young married couple is taken in by an isolationist family, one that lives off the blood and plunder from lost hikers, and they want the couple to stay for the rest of their lives.

Runtime: 1 Hour 29 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Edge of Isolation starts when couple Lance (Marcel) and Kendra (Hassler) look for a remote getaway in the woods. Getting back to nature, a place where they can be alone and away from work.

When the pair have an accident, they find an overly friendly family. Mary (Barton), Ivan (Markham) and Vlad (Houkal) offering them shelter. It doesn’t take long before they learn they are in danger. Fellow captive Caitlin (Peters) offers to help them escape.

Thoughts on Edge of Isolation

Edge of Isolation is a horror thriller. One that will dive into the idea that people in remote locations have twisted nature. We see the couple who become trapped in a society that they can’t survive in. facing off against a loyal family that will do anything for family. Putting us into this environment, we see the survival battle. Using similar ideas that we saw in Wrong Turn. We get to see how becoming outnumbered will leave the couple needing to be smart. Going against what they know from the city life they have been living for years. It doesn’t seem to offer much new to the style of horror.

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Final Thoughts – Edge of Isolation is a standard horror, bringing little new to the table.

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Death Trench (2017) Movie Review

Death Trench is a welcome addition to the experimentation gone wrong subgenre of horror.

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Director: Leo Scherman

Writer: Matthew Booi, Leo Scherman (Screenplay)

Starring: Rossif Sutherland, Robet Stadlober, Charlie Carrick, Shaun Benson, Ted Atherton, Luke Humphrey, Jeff Strome

Plot: In the final days of WWI, an allied army unit led by a shell-shocked soldier is sent to investigate a mysterious abandoned German facility located deep underground. What they find is fate worse than death.

Runtime: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Death Trench starts when a group of soldiers LT Berton (Sutherland), Captain Cooper (Humphrey), Dr Priest (Carrick) and Pvt Kelly (Hurtig). Get sent to an abandoned German facility in the final days of World War One.

As the soldiers go deeper into the facility, they find out they are not alone. Not all the Germans have left, with the remaining ones having their own plans. Deep within the facility, in a world a horrors they couldn’t imagine.

Thoughts on Death Trench

Death Trench is one of the horror sci-fi films that looks to expose one of the many rumoured experiments the Germans tried during the wars. This one, like most of the rest all going wrong with a new level of horror about what they were thinking about doing.

This will unfold in a pace you wouldn’t expect, with plenty of twists along the way. The idea of what is being created would be terrifying. Which will leave the soldiers needing to do the right thing. The horror side of the effects work very well. The gunfire becomes the weaker side of things. In what is another addition into the German experimentation. This is a welcome addition that is well worth watching for the horrors of the minds.

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Universal Soldier Regeneration (2009) Movie Review

ABC Film Challenge – Sci-Fi – U – Universal Soldier Regeneration (2009)

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Director: John Hyams

Writer: Victor Ostrovsky (Screenplay) Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch, Dean Devlin (Characters)

Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Andrei Arlovski, Mike Pyle, Corey Johnson, Garry Cooper, Emily Joyce

Plot: Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister’s 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.


Tagline – Reanimated. Rearmed. The ultimate rematch.

Runtime: 1 Hour 37 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Universal Soldier Regeneration starts when a terrorist group run by General Topov (Baharov) kidnaps the Russian President’s children. Hiding them out in Chernobyl. The power of one of their NGU (Arlovski) becomes a problem for the watching world.

Without having many options, the old program is brought back to life. When the remaining soldiers from the NGU program are sent in to complete the mission. Only for them needing to turn to the best former soldier Luc Deveraux (Van Damme). Coming to face off against the ultimate killing machine.

Thoughts on Universal Soldier Regeneration

Universal Soldier Regeneration will look to continue the legacy of the ultimate soldiers. Created from the corpses of the killed soldiers. We get the new group of terrorists that are looking to use the soldiers for their own benefit. Where one soldier must give up the chance he had of a normal life once again. Becoming the killing machine that could save the world from the dangerous terrorist ring. And the ultimate soldier that feels no pain.

This like most of the rest of the franchise, will be filled with plenty of fight sequences. That will see Jean Claude Van Damme face off against the different action stars. Dolph Lundgren and the UFC’s André Arlovski. If you are a fan of the franchise. This will be all you need to get the kicks out of the wild action fighting soldiers.

Final Thoughts – Universal Soldier: Regeneration fits the franchise world perfectly.