Director Heidi Greensmith crafts a short and polished thriller from Nuala Ellwood’s 2017 dark psychological novel. But it’s a story that could have done with more than a meagre 82 minutes to hit home its themes of trauma and the sins of the past.

Steven Halpern is a Grammy-nominated American New Age musician. He released his first solo album in 1976 and has built an impressive catalogue of titles since then. He started his music career in New York, playing trumpet and guitar before moving to California during the late 60s, where he developed the idea that he would like to create music purely for the purpose of relaxation. He possesses the long-held belief that music can heal and classifies himself as a suburban sonic shaman. On the back cover of Music for Microdosing, his music is compared to “a tuning fork for the mind, body and soul” that will heighten the listener’s “receptivity to insights, inner guidance and creativity.”

Wan Pipel comes wrapped in a slipcase, with no booklet and a few extras on the disc; in that regard, it’s not any kind of deluxe edition, but the extras are interesting enough. The film, shot in Suriname, was released in 1976, and was the first Surinamese film after the country achieved independence from the Netherlands; in that regard, it’s historically important, and the themes of nationalism and patriotism, and the relationship between the two countries, are loudly present in Wan Pipel (One People).

Live Wires is a split bringing together two of the most consistent. compelling and creative  American walled noise projects. There’s Cincinnati, Ohio’s Whore’s Breath, and Portland, Oregon’s Hana Haruna. Each party serves up around twenty three minute track, and each is distinctive.

Tendrils is a recently released slab of extremely grim and rapidly grinding walled noise from this UK-based project. 

Night Of The Rats is a zero-budget 2025 film that blends when-creatures-attack action with foaming-at-the-mouth zombie stalking. The picture has a tiny cast, only a few locations, and acting that moves between competent enough, to dull eyes/bumbling reading lines, and badly hamming it up. Though there’s a stab at foreboding to tense atmospherics, with rat attacks that move between passable( for low budget fare)  to the plain laughable. Here from Wild Eye Releasing is a DVD release of the film.