Beyond The Wall of Fear (2016) – Joe Sherlock.

This regional, micro-budgeted horror anthology's notable ambition is unfortunately stymied by amateur theatrics, a lacklustre script, and a conspicuously restrictive paucity of production readies. All that being said, Beyond The Wall of Fear is certainly not entirely without value to more forgiving fans of low wattage, Lovecraft-inflected shenanigans, and those who remain unable to resist the lure of a schlock-stuffed portmanteau shocker. Arguably, the continued popularity of indie horror anthologies is down to fond recollections of the late-night Midnight Movie, which would often be Amicus's influential Asylum, or, personal fave Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. Persistent, numbing nostalgia, and garishly recycled plots/tropes remain frustratingly ubiquitous in far too many contemporary horror flicks.

Beyond The Wall of Sleep, whoopsie-doodle, Fear, is a somnolent offering, sporadically leavened by bemusingly trite dialogue, 'enthusiastic' acting, and a few righteous moments of exquisite goofiness! To be fair, while none of the segments are expressly awful, sadly little care has been taken in producing any especially memorable content, excepting the canine-scoffing beastie scenario which was intentionally chucklesome! One of Sherlock's more winning peccadilloes are the pleasing preponderance of plus-sized female protagonists, as a card-carrying Chubby Checker, these luscious lovelies provided a welcome distraction. George Stover completists can expect a scintillatingly succinct Stover-load of his Stover-sized B-Thespian charisma! In closing, I started to modestly groove on this during the Dopey-Dagon effort, and I'm still not completely sure whether I massively dug on the muzaky synths, either way, they certainly made an impression!