Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper might not be a household name, but the guy’s been making some cool moves in the indie film world. “A Home for the Holidays” (2023) is his latest drop, and honestly, it’s got that mix of heartfelt messiness and those family shenanigans that just feel too real sometimes. You know, the kind of story where people are thrown together for the holidays and secrets just start leaking out when you least want them to? It’s not one of those cheesy, sugarcoated flicks either—there’s real grit under the surface. Characters mess up, fight, make up, and make you laugh at the worst moments. Classic. Jump back to “Blood Mountain” (2017), and wow, total 180. Swap out the family drama for survival mode. This one’s all about tension and paranoia up in some seriously wild landscapes. You can almost feel the cold biting through the screen. People are pushed to their limits—physically and mentally. Trust? Yeah, good luck with that. Everyone’s got their own agenda, and nobody’s safe. It’s more thriller than outright horror, but it’ll get your heart racing for sure. And then there’s “Incontrol” (also 2017), which is a whole different flavor—think college sci-fi, but not the corny kind. It’s all about a bunch of students messing with a weird piece of tech that lets them jump into other people’s lives. At first, it seems like a blast. Who wouldn’t want to escape their own problems? But, shocker, things get way out of hand. It’s got this Black Mirror vibe, asking if you’d really want that kind of power, or if it’d just wreck you in the end. Honestly, Cooper’s work is all over the map, but he’s not afraid to dig into the messy stuff, whether it’s families, survival, or screwing with reality. Keeps things interesting.