Low Budget

Time Trap (2017)

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Have you ever gone into a little dive of a restaurant and ended up having a killer meal? Watching Time Trap (2017) is a little like that. I’m so used to sitting down to a low-budget film and having it be so sub-par that I almost don’t know what to do when it’s not. To be fair, it’s not exactly “low” budget at $1 million, but they definitely got the most bang for the buck I’ve seen in a while. No cheesy effects or bad acting here. I put it on in the background while doing something else, but very quickly stopped that something else, because it was just that good.

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Dead Body (2017)

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A bunch of recent high school grads get together for an outing in a cabin in the woods. Later that evening, someone suggests the game “Dead Body,” a party game where one player is assigned to be the murderer, and one the first victim. The rest of the players have to figure out who the killer is before they become victims themselves. You can guess what happens next. Wait! Let me try that again in my horror trailer voice-over voice: “The kids decide to play ‘Dead Body,’ but what they don’t know is that someone’s already playing it…for real!”

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