Director(s) – Irene Baruffetti (6 Songs, Vore Gore), Cory DeAn Cowley (Phallacies, Patient 4), Domiziano Cristopharo (Ill: Final Contagion, Phantasmagoria), Jon Devlin (Erecting a Monster, Punching the Clown), Adam Ford (Torment, Analogies), and Peter Lankston (Phallacies, Analogies)
Starring – Irene Baruffetti, Cory DeAn Cowley, and Jon Devlin
Release Date – 2026
Rating – 2.5/5
Many years ago I befriended actor and director Jon Devlin. He was looking for people to review an action flick he was in. I was impressed by his acting skill and soon found myself reviewing other films he had appeared in and directed. Sometime ago I reviewed the male membered horror anthology Phallacies featuring a segment from him and several other filmmakers. He continued this theme with the recent release of Analogies before this most recent anthology about a sexualized body part, Toe Tags. Devlin reached out to me to check it out and I couldn’t pass it up. Thanks Jon for reaching out!
**Spoiler Alert** This anthology focuses mostly on feet. We have a tale following a woman that inherits her mother’s shoes, a trans-woman wanting the perfect pair of feet, a child gets revenge against their abusive father, a mentally il person suffering a break, a man dancing with a ghost, and a mermaid wishing she still had her majestic tail. **Spoiler Alert**
I knew this one was going to be absurd but I was hoping that it would embrace the nature of the film a bit more. A horror anthology trying to remove the sexual taboo from feet could have been something pretty funny in it’s own right. However, what we have is a movie that takes itself a bit too seriously at times and is not as extreme as they would have liked to be.
The acting in this one is fairly even throughout. The cast in this one is very broad but they all have experience in front of the camera for the most part. We get some solid performances throughout every segment which is fairly uncommon among indie horror anthologies where each segment is directed by someone different.
The stories for this one varies greatly. We have some pretty solid horror shorts with some that feel a bit out of place. Most of them all follow the foot theme in one way another but not all were created equal. With that being said, the first and second stories were probably my favorite while the last two tales were not that enjoyable. I hate to be that way but they just wasn’t for me. Some are original to an extent while others try too hard to feel complex and thought provoking without actually being either of those. Honestly, I wish we had a horror comedy centered around a foot fetish.
Finally, the film has several shorts with some blood and decent enough effects. Don’t expect to see a movie with insane gore and memorable deaths but you will see some blood along with some fun animation. Overall, Toe Tags will not be for everyone. I enjoyed parts of it but the film as a whole was not for me. Fans of Devlin’s previous anthologies will dig it but someone looking for something new may not enjoy it.
