It’s February and love is in the air… Love of horror films that is! SEVEN MINUTE TAKES has two new offerings for your terror viewing pleasure.
First up in CONVERGENCE, Detective Ben Walls (Clayne Crawford, Rectify, A Walk to Remember) lives a quiet life with his wife and newborn daughter. But he’s called into action after an explosion at a local women’s health clinic – and explosion that may be the work of a terrorist bomber Ben has been tracking. While investigating the scene, another shocking event lands Ben himself in the hospital. When he awakens he is surprisingly uninjured and ready to go back into the field. But at the behest of his captain (Mykelti Williamson, Forrest Gump, Con Air) and the hospital’s few but eerily incongruous patients and staff, Ben is forced to remain inside the building.
Next up, in THE PACK, Directed by Nick Robertson and starring Anna Lise Phillips, Jack Campbell, Katie Moore, Hamish Phillips, man’s best friend becomes his worst nightmare when a horde of bloodthirsty wild dogs descends upon a family’s farmhouse. In a remote stretch of the Australian Outback, a sheep rancher (Nick Robertson), his veterinarian wife (Anna Lise Phillips), and their two teenage children live in bucolic isolation—until a horrifying night when a pack of fang-bearing, four-legged rabid beasts besiege their home. With no one around to help them, the family must band together to survive—or else become canine kibble. Generating a steadily mounting sense of dread, THE PACK cleverly toys with genre conventions before it goes in for the kill.