The DTV Digest

In our latest roundup of short films, Mike and Rich take a look at eight recent releases - click the links to see each film!
ANOMOLOUS sees a witchfinder interrogating a woman who uses tea leaves to read people's fortunes...
DEAD ECHO is a Star Wars fan film about a downed TIE-Fighter pilot...
DONT.4GET2SMILE finds an influencer being stalked by a friend's killer...
FIVE STAR sees a handyman going to great lengths to secure a yelp review....
FRUIT HEAD sheds light on a banned ad for a fruit candy....
POP MONSTERS involves a group of women undertaking challenges to win a concert ticket...
SHADOW YOU finds a graphic designer being shadowed by her 16yr old self as a coping mechanism....
THE FLACALTA EFFECT is set in a zombie apocalypse where two sisters are trying to survive...
Our Short Throwback is DIASPORA, in which a young woman wonders why all the persons of colour in her neighborhood are being replaced!
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In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda take a look at three new releases; as usual click the links to see a trailer for each film!
 
We kick off with R L STINE'S PUMPKINHEAD  (Signature Entertainment), a horror movie for kids which contains actual horror!
49 MILES MORE (Reel2Reel Films) finds 2 friends, Max and Doug, stranded on their way to a Guys Weekend....
THE DEMON DETECTIVE (Miracle Media) delves into Constantine territory with its melding of hardboiled detective and exorcist storyline.
Our Short Shot is SIMON SAYS, in which a birthday party turns into a deadly massacre with the arrival of the "entertainment". Click the link to see the whole film!
Our DTV Throwback is IRON EAGLE IV (aka Iron Eagles On The Attack!) Lou Gossett Jr reprises his role from the other films, but Jason Gedrick is replaced by Jason Cadieux  as Doug Masters, looking after a Flying School for Juvenile Delinquents! We found the film on Youtube, HERE.

In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda tackle five new releases - click the links to see trailers for each film!
 
We kick off with CHUM (Plaion Pictures) another "shark peril" movie but with a decent twist!
DEADLY GAMES (Miracle Media) finds four influencers invited to a secluded island for...some reason...
HARBINGER (Miracle Media) is the latest from Shogun Films and blends together some of my favourite genre tropes!
HELLCAT (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is about a young injured woman trapped in the back of a camper van, not knowing who to trust....
THIS TEMPTING MADNESS (Plaion Pictures) - marks the SEVENTH film this year to feature a woman suffering from amnesia. Good job its still worth checking out!
Our Short Shot is SACRIFICE, in which a young woman learns her partner has joined a peculiar social group and has a strange request for their barbeque! Click the link to watch the whole short film!
Our DTV Throwback is THE ENEMY, in which Luke Perry must find out who's kidnapped his father and why. Here's the Youtube link; it should be available on other screening platforms.
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In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda tackle seven new releases. NB: This episode was recorded in two sessions as not everyone was available on the same day. 
As usual, click the link to be taken to a trailer for each film!
 
We kick off with THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT (Acorn), an adaptation of a survival horror video game!
Renny Harlin returns to shark territory with DEEP WATER (Signature Entertainment).
THE FIRES (Signature Entertainment) is an Icelandic disaster movie featuring erupting volcanoes...
MOCKBUSTER (Miracle Media)  is a documentary charting a film-maker's journey directing a film for The Asylum...
THE MORRIGAN (Thunderbird Releasing) is a folk horror set around an archeological dig site in Ireland
THEY WAIT IN SHADOWS (Miracle Media) is a British horror set in a small suburban house...
TINSMAN ROAD (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is a found footage/mockumentary about a man seeking answers to the disappearance of his sister many years previously.
Our Short Shot is DUPED:! - A TIME LOOP THAT BREAKS, in which a woman returns home after a bad date and is subjected to strange goings on.
The DTV Throwback is INTO THE SEA: THE REEF, a DTV sequel to the Paul Walker/Jessica Alba film. The film is available on Youtube HERE, and I'm sure other streaming sites.
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In this episode, Mike and Amanda take a look at two new releases; as usual, click the links to see a trailer for each film!
We kick off with SON OF THE SOIL (Trinity Content Partners), an independent action movie from Nigeria, directed by Chee Keong Cheung (REDCON-1, Bodyguard: A New Beginning).
Next is THE CURSE (Blue Finch Film Releasing), a Japanese horror centred around a traditional curse ritual brought to life for the digital age.
Our Short Shot is THE GENTLE SEX (Evolutionary Films), starring Dame Joan Collins as a resident at a care facility who is more than she at first seems. Click the link to see the whole short film. (NB: I called this The Weaker Sex, on the podcast! Apologies!)
Our DTV Throwback is HAIL CEASAR, a vanity project from actor/director Anthony Michael Hall, and 
 

In this episode Mike, Rich and Amanda tackle 4 new titles; click the links to see a trailer for each film!
We start with BLACK BOX: FLIGHT 298 (Signature Entertainment) in which the passengers on an overnight flight encounter strange goings on both inside and outside their plane!
THE LAST ASSASSINS (Seven Tales) is set in a dystopian future and follows a young woman and her bodyguard crossing the wastelands...
EXECUTIONER (Reel2ReelFilms): A politician facing a blackmail plot schemes to turn the tables on his antagonist.
THE FETUS (Miracle Media) finds a young woman pregnant with a half demon fetus...
 
Our Short Shot is MAGICAL MEAT, about an elderly Japanese man seeking to find courage from Danny Trejo. Click the link to see the whole short film!
 
Our DTV Throwback this week is the excellent COLD PREY (aka FRITT VILT), trilogy. which has just been released as a boxset from Second Sight. 
Trailers for Cold Prey
                  Cold Prey 2
                  Cold Prey 3
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In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda take a look at eight new releases - as usual, click the link to see a trailer for each film!
 
We kick off with ARE YOU THERE? (High Fliers), a supernatural tale in which a young woman looking to debunk spiritualism, messes with a candle linked to the Other Side....
BUFFALO DAZE (High Fliers) is a historical dramatisation of the life of native outlaw, Jim Grinder.
DEAD LOVER (Lightbulb Film  Distribution) is an avant-garde take on the Frankenstein storyline...
HOLD THE FORT (Signature Entertainment is where a young couple who find out that owning their own home comes with supernatural small print!
REMEMORY (Miracle Media) finds two cops having to protect a child who professes to have been a gangster in a previous life.
ROUND THE DECAY (Seven Tales) is about a small tourist town under seige from cave-dwelling creatures...
SHADOWS OF WILLOW CABIN (Grimm Vision) finds two men wrestling with their sexuality as well as a resident ghost in their getaway cabin....
THE KILLGRIN (High Fliers) sees a woman wrestling with a tragedy, only to be told she's being haunted by a demon...
 
Our Short Shot is DAVE THE DIVER, a short produced by The Asylum as a tie-in to a video game. Click the link to see the whole short film!
 
Our DTV Throwback is REPLIKATOR, set in the far-flung future of 2014, where a scientist accidentally produces an evil clone of himself! This is available to watch on Youtube but beware the amount of ad breaks!
 
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In this episode, Mike and Steve tackle two new releases; as usual, click the link if you want to see a trailer...
THE SHERIFF (High Fliers) finds out titular lawman scratching at the dark underbelly of a rural farm town, looking for answers about the murder of his own son five years previously....
SIGNAL ONE (Signature Entertainment) sees two young brilliant scientists recruited to a secluded tropical island, where a current experiment is likely to change the course of human existence.
The Short Shot is A MEMORY OWED, starring James Bolem as a pensioner on a special visit to a WW2 RAF airfield. Click the link to see the whole short.
The DTV Throwback is THE GATHERING, starring Christina Ricci, Ioan Gruffud and Stephen Dillane. This is rather worth checking out; we watched it on YouTube, which you can find HERE. - be warned though, there are a tonne of ad breaks!
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In this episode Mike, Steve, Amanda and Rich tackle a bumper eight films! As usual, click the links to see a trailer for each film:
We kick off with the Nordic creature feature, KRAKEN (Signature Entertainment), in which an aquatic behemoth is disturbed by new technology used at a salmon farm....
13 SOULS (Seven Tales) is about a teen girl being reunited with her father and sister, and attacked by the ghosts of unnamed dead in the cemetery next door...
AFFECTION (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is the first of three films this episode in which a woman suffers memory loss - this time waking in a farm w her husband & daughter...or is she??
CRYBABY BRIDGE (High Fliers) finds a pregnant teen revisiting her childhood and discovering her past and ghosts....
DIABOLIC (Lightbulb Film Distribution): a young woman suffering memory loss (!) turns to the Mormon sect she was once part of....
TRIBE (GrimmVision) - a Found Footage film in which a former professor heads to the mountains and gets entangled in strange occurrences...
WOKEN (101 Films) - A woman with memory loss (!!!) finds herself secluded on an island with her husband and mother... or is she?
BEAST (Vertigo Releasing) finds a former MMA champion forced to get back into the ring to help his family, reuniting with his former coach and facing his past.
Our Short Shot is NO TROUBLE, in which a parolee working in a Chinese Restaurant has a crushing dilemma to solve. Click the link to see the whole, excellent, short film. 
Our DTV Throwback is BLOODSPORT 2, in which Daniel Bernhardt takes over from JCVD and entering the Kumite! We watched this on Youtube, here.
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In this episode Mike, Steve and Amanda review two new releases: click the links to see a trailer for each film!
 
We kick off with KILLER WHALE (Plaion Pictures), in which two young women are trapped in a lagoon with an orca recently released from captivity! In our review I mention a feature by Last Podcast On the Left (which I refer to as "Last House" D'oh!) - you can find their story on SeaWorld HERE
KRISPR (Miracle Media) is about a scientist bringing his female clone creation home for the holidays!
Our Short Shot is FINDING DADDY, in which two broke sisters discover their estranged father is on a Sugar Daddy dating site! Click the link to see the whole film!
Our DTV Throwback is THE ORDER, starring Jean Claud Van Damme in an Indiana Jones-esque adventure! We watched this on Tubi, but its probably available on other platforms as well. 
Follow the Short Shots  on X and BlueSky, where you will find hundreds of links to awesome short films!
Don't forget to also check out our main show, the DTV DIGEST on X and FACEBOOK!
We are also now on Bluesky! Follow us here: @thedtvdigest.bsky.social and @dtvshortshots.bsky.social