This week on Streamin’ Demons, Jo and Amelie dig into Bonekeeper, the cave horror film from writer-director Howard J. Ford. A group heads into a remote cave system looking for a missing woman and quickly ends up in full creature-feature territory.

The cave setting works, the claustrophobia lands, and the movie gets a big boost from John Rhys-Davies showing up and giving the whole thing some real weight. Jo and Amelie also get into the messier side of it, especially the weak group setup, the questionable “these people are friends” claim, and all the dumb cave decisions that would get people killed even without a monster involved.

It’s flawed, patchy in places, and the creature work could have been stronger, but the pacing moves, the atmosphere works, and both Jo and Amelie agree it’s still a solid, entertaining horror watch.

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Key Moments

Opening chaos – Jo and Amelie introduce Bonekeeper and immediately start side-eyeing IMDb’s description of the group as “six young friends.”

Character confusion – The hosts try to figure out who these people actually are, how they know each other, and why they’re the ones investigating a missing person.

John Rhys-Davies surprise – Jo realizes the professor is John Rhys-Davies and spends a good chunk of the movie delighted that he’s actually in it for more than a throwaway cameo.

Cave logic breakdown – Jo and Amelie tear into the group’s survival decisions, from splitting up to leaving people behind in a pitch-black cave.

Creature effect debate – The monster works better as an idea than as a visual, and Jo argues practical effects would have helped a lot.

Final verdict – Bonekeeper is messy but entertaining, with strong atmosphere, solid pacing, and enough cave horror tension to make it worth watching.

Dead Lover gets the Streamin’ Demons treatment. Jo and guest Charlotte unpack the film’s bizarre romance, stage-play style visuals, and that wild scratch-and-sniff screening gimmick. From resurrecting a lover with a grown finger to theatrical sets and low-budget creativity, this review dives into why the film is weird, quirky, and unexpectedly fun.

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• Opening chaos – Jo introduces Charlotte as the “London correspondent” who attended the press screening.
• Scratch-and-sniff cinema – The wild theatre gimmick where audiences smelled scenes during the movie.
• The play-style filmmaking – Charlotte explains how the movie feels like a stage play adapted to film with minimal sets and four actors.
• The weird love story – A grieving gravedigger tries to resurrect her drowned lover through bizarre experiments… including growing a finger.
• Jo’s big take – If your “weirdo-meter” likes films like Fried Barry, this one might be your jam.
• The theatre question – Charlotte debates whether the film works better as a cinema experience or a quirky late-night TV watch.
• Theme kicker – A low-budget, eccentric indie that proves creativity can carry a film even when the resources are tiny.

Dead Lover will be available in UK Cinemas (in glorious STINK-O-VISION!) from 20th March

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap experiments.

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxoY-3mu04g

This week on Streamin’ Demons, Jo and Amelie take a look at the 2022 indie horror film Anacoreta. The movie follows a group of filmmakers heading out to a remote cabin in the woods to shoot an experimental horror project, but as the cameras keep rolling the situation slowly starts to unravel.

The acting is surprisingly strong, especially considering the cast is often playing actors inside the film itself. Jo and Amelie talk about how that works in the movie’s favor early on, along with the solid atmosphere and setup. But once the story hits the third act, the logic starts to slip and the tension that was building begins to fall apart.

Along the way the hosts also get into a debate about how people react to danger in the woods. Amelie’s instinct is to call out to a stranger and figure out who they are. Jo’s instinct is much simpler: get in the truck and leave.

Is Anacoreta worth checking out? Jo and Amelie break down what works, what doesn’t, and why the film ends up being a mix of solid ideas and frustrating decisions.

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Opening riff – Jo kicks things off joking about reviewing a “new” movie from 2022 that they couldn’t talk about until now.

The premise – A group of filmmakers head to a remote cabin to shoot an experimental horror movie… and things slowly start unraveling.

Acting inside acting – The cast pulls off the tricky job of playing actors making a movie, shifting between intentionally bad acting and real performances.

Jo’s take – The first two acts work well, but once the movie hits Act 3 the internal logic falls apart and the tension drops.

Cultural clash moment – Jo and Amelie debate what they’d actually do if they saw a stranger who was stalking them in the dark in the woods. Amelie would call out and talk. Jo’s response: get in the truck and leave.

Location oddity – The “abandoned” cabin somehow has perfectly maintained flowers, which becomes one of the episode’s running jokes.

Final verdict – There’s real talent here from the filmmakers, but the third act keeps the movie from landing as well as it could.