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Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – POD (2015)

Ed and Lyla are so worried about their psychologically unstable brother Martin they head to the family cabin in the woods to stage an intervention. What greets them is a raving paranoid individual rambling about a government conspiracy that’s threatening his life and claiming he’s holding a military issue prototype ‘pod’ in the cellar. Is the veteran soldier having the complete mental breakdown…

F4FF2015 An intervention of evil on a out of this world scale ‘POD’ – movie review

  Psycho babble, government conspiracies and windows drenched in tin foil are always a good recipe for a sci fiction thriller. In Mickey Keating’s feature POD we see a brother and sister trying to help their PTSD suffering brother from destroying the rest of his life. The brother won’t have it as he is convinced he has found a new evil not from this world. What starts as an intervention becomes a…

We have the theatrical trailer and poster for Pod, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year. It opens in 10 AMC theaters on August 28 via Vertical Entertainment. Here is a list of where you'll be able to see it.

Written and directed by Mickey Keating (Ritual), the indie horror film has drawn comparisons to The Twilight Zone and The X-Files. Lauren Ashley Carter (The Woman), Dean Cates (Ritual) and Larry Fessenden (You're Next) star.

Pod is a 2015 American sci-fi horror film written and directed by Mickey Keating (Ritual). It stars Lauren Ashley Carter (Jug Face; The Woman), Dean Cates, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden (Wendigo; I Sell the Dead; Beneath), and John Weselcouch. The film premiered at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) on March 16, 2015. Plot teaser: After receiving a warning not to come to their family lake…