Macabre…ish Horror Review: Marrow
Marrow, 2026/ 94 min
Jamie Foster (Jessica Dawn Willis), known online as Distal Marrow and host of Embracing the Paradox, a call in vodcast that is declining in popularity ever since returning to urban lore from true crime. Her manager/surrogate mother Camilla (Danielle Harris), who is bankrolling her ‘failing’ podcast, is cranking up the pressure.
And then a listener throws her podcast a life line. She is contacted by a mysterious fan, Noosplehdeeni aka JJ Di Angelo. He offers to show her a nightmare come to life.
He’s taken the name of his idol, the Golden gate killer, who knows a little too much about Jamie, things he couldn’t possibly know. He tells her about 4 missing, Texas podcasters. All vanished without a trace, until one of their corpses surfaced, water logged, in a lake.
This mysterious caller confesses to having a companion and being fascinated by Jamie. He tells her, she is a key component of this case. He says he knows where the missing podcasters are and how terrifying their deaths were. At the end of their first Live call, JJ leaves Jamie with a video of one of the victims.
Some fans are so disturbed by the Live that they call the police and Jamie has a visit from law enforcement. And she doesn’t tell the truth and on the next episode with JJ, he calls her out on it. He alludes to her being watched and someone beats on her door. So Jamie arms herself and takes the live broadcast from on-screen to POV.
It was real, terrifying and no one believes it was not staged. Plus something happened to the footage she uploaded. A stranger, Jonathan Myer (Michael Ironside), seems to believe her though and he requests a meeting. He thinks it’s a phenomenon, not a person. He says she’s feeding it with her attention and that anyone who interacts with it either goes insane or dies. Jonathan talked to this being too, inside a man named Edwin, who slaughtered his entire family.
And it also took an interest in him and his work, it was seductive. And this was in the 70s and it called itself John List. Jonathan says there is still time for her to let this go.
It turns out, Jonathan might have been wrong because by the time this is over, a lot of people will be dead.
This film was directed by Mitch McCleod and starring Jessica Dawn Willis and the iconic Danielle Harris as Camilla Moore and Michael Ironside.
This movie is dialogue heavy but the dialogue is good and the mysterious character has that Criminal Minds killer mystique to it at the beginning and then morphs into a paranormal thriller. The disembodied voice is very good. This movie was a very pleasant surprise!