Two From Uncork’d: It Came From Below And Royal Jelly
We’re used to getting movie notifications from indie horror distributor Uncork’d Entertainment frequently, but their output seems to be slowing down. This coming month they have just two releases on the dock: It Came From Below and Royal Jelly. In the first movie, a man claims to anyone who will listen that a monster lurks within the local lake and has claimed many victims. No one listens to him (all those disappearances are probably nothing to worry about, right?) so he sets out to the lake to prove the monster’s existence…and disappears himself. His daughter, Jessie, fears the worst and decides she has to rescue him. Deep in the caves below the lake, she’ll meet the source of the community’s terror. It Came From Below stars Megan Purvis, Tom Taplin, Jake Watkins, and Georgie Banks, and was written and directed by Dan Allen. The second movie, Royal Jelly, is a riff on The Fly (Cronenberg version) where a reclusive high schooler named Aster cares about nothing but beekeeping. A mysterious