Yeah so I saw 2 indie horror flicks that have been getting a lot of buzz this year:
-Toad Road: Another Artsploitation release that I checked out after Hidden in the Woods. I didn't realize that there are rumors abound that all of the drug use in the film was real and that the lead actress died of a heroin overdose right after the movie's release. It was kind of Blair Witch-ish in that most of the beginning was setting up for the "payoff" at the end, which delivered on some level (the parallels between the urban legend and drug addiction were frightening) but really left me thinking it was a missed opportunity. It wasn't a bad movie, I'm just not sure what to make of it exactly. 2-2.5./5, somewhere in that range, I think they can do better id they figure out some aspects of filmmaking as they go on.
-Contracted: Rather than going into the diatribe I was going to, I will just say there is no way to adequately describe how much I hated this movie. Every male was a brainless misogynist, yet every female was filled with such confusion and self-loathing that there wasn't an ounce of a single character in this film with any protagonist in them. The virus is almost incidental for gross-out moments, because beyond that this was just a heaping pile of garbage. 0/5, I would give it less inf I could.