Kim on the latest DTV must-sees

Quinn Lasher’s HE’S OUT THERE, an archetypal slasher, offers an infallible suspense situation. Young mother Laura (Yvonne Strahovski, excellent) drives to a remote lake house with her demanding daughters (Abigail and Anna Pniowsky), who follow a red thread into the woods and feast on suspect cupcakes. A pre-owned children’s book has sinister crayon annotations and a masked figure (Ryan Mcdonald) lingers on the property. One of quite a few recent ‘tiger mommy’ horror films, this is a solid little shocker.

Another beleaguered mum features in Brandon Christensen’s ruthless, spooky STILL/BORN... While doting on her surviving new-born son, Mary (Christie Burke) is tormented by the possibility that his born-dead twin is haunting them. Left alone in a grim, modernist luxury home by a busy husband — absent or useless dads are a feature of ‘tiger mommy’ horror — Mary is diagnosed with postpartum lunacy, but might also be targeted by terrifying, demonic forces. It’s a whispery, delicate exercise which comes to a truly frightening conclusion — one particular moment is as liable to linger in your nightmares as Mary’s.

CORBIN NASH, which feels like a pilot for a cheapo Blade/buffy-style franchise, toplines Dean Jagger — who also co-wrote with his director brother Ben Jagger — as a literally hard-bitten cop who thinks he’s recovering from horrific neck injuries but is actually turning into a rogue vampire determined to rid a stretch of Los Angeles from the evil undead. Malcolm Mcdowell, Bruce Davison and Rutger Hauer — all previous Draculas, fact fans! — cameo, but the major scene stealer is Corey Feldman, playing a transvestite bloodsucker like an Andy Warhol superstar trapped in a low-budget action film.