Festivals: Sundance News

IN A VIOLENT NATURE Official Trailer: Chris Nash's "Genre-Redefining Zombie-Slasher" is Coming For You

By all accounts In A Violent Nature, the feature film debut from writer/director Chris Nash, is a game changer, a single film that revolutionizes the slasher genre. One of the buzziest titles to come out of Sundance this year we're...

KRAZY HOUSE Teaser: Nick Frost And Alicia Silverstone Star in Comedy Horror From NEW KIDS Duo

Cheese and rats, it's the teaser trailer for Krazy House, the upcoming comedy horror from Steffen Haars and Flip Van der Kuil. They are, of course, the writers and directors of our favorite and irreverant Dutch comedies New Kids Turbo...

Sundance Drops Full 2024 Lineup

Buckle up! The film festival season is re-racking and getting started all over again with the announcement of the 2024 Sundance Film Fest lineup. Today brings word of the 82 films and 8 episodic titles (and single New Frontier piece)...

IFSN Advocate Award 2023: Annual Award Goes to D. Smith's KOKOMO CITY

Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announed this year's winner of the 2023 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award. D. Smith's directorial debut the documentary Kokomo City has been chosen as this year's recepiant.    Four Black transgender sex workers explore...

MY ANIMAL Trailer: Sundance Lycanthropy Tale in Theaters And Digital Next Month

Bobbi Salvör Menuez (Euphoria) and Amandla Stenberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies) ignite in this genre-bending supernatural love story. Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather is forced to live a secluded life on the outskirts of a small town. When she...

ALIENS ABDUCTED MY PARENTS AND NOW I FEEL KINDA LEFT OUT Trailer

Reviewing the trade traffic yesterday it seems that the premiere of Jake Van Wagoner and Austin Everett's sci-fi coming-of-age comedy Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out should be a hit at Sundance. The general consensus is...

MY ANIMAL: Official Key Art And Key Set For Horror Romance Debut Ahead of World Premiere at Sundance

Jacqueline Castel's horror romance My Animal is having its world premiere at Sundance next week, as part of the Midnight program. The key art and key art have been sent over. Check out the gallery below for a look-see.  ...

INFINITY POOL Trailer: Damnit, Brandon Cronenberg's Sundance Title Looks Amazing

If it were any other person the thought of being the offspring of the great David Cronenberg would be daunting. Forunately for us the Cronenberg gene pool is immensely deep, bottomless even.   Brandon Cronenberg looks like he's going to...

Sundance 2023 Lineup Features New Names and Old Faves

We've been here before, excitedly discussing the Sundance Film Festival lineup announcement promising a return to in-person indie film goodness in the snowy setting of Park City. Let's all hope this time we'll really make the trip. Regardless, the full...

SPEAK NO EVIL: Shudder Sets Streaming Date This September

Twas at the beginning of the year when we first found out that Shudder had acquired the rights to stream the Danish-Dutch horror thriller, Speak No Evil. Directed by Christian Tafdrup and written by himself and his brother, Mads, this...

RESURRECTION Teaser: Rebecca Hall Tears up Then Tears it up in Andrew Seman's Psychological Thriller

Andrew Seman’s psychological thriller Ressurection will be released by IFC Films in theaters and on-demand August 5th.    The teaser trailer was released yesterday and holy moly, does Rebecca Hall completely own this. Wow! It's going to play at Fantasia...

YOU WON'T BE ALONE: Watch The Second Trailer For The Acclaimed Sundance Folk Horror

Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, YOU WON’T BE ALONE follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch...

Sundance 2022: Shudder Acquires Midnight Official Selection SPEAK NO EVIL

Shudder announced last night that the AMC streaming service has acquired the rights for Christian Tafdrup's psychological thriller Speak No Evil.    A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an...

Sundance 2022: Egg-cellent Trailer Laid for HATCHING

Sundance has gone totally virtual so that means the usual crop of top notch midnight films will just have to be experienced in the safe, quiet, dark, not-at-all-creepy confines of your own home. One such films is the ultra disturbing-looking...

Sundance 2022 Feature Lineup Announced

Once merely a frigid Utah gathering of the movers and shakers of the indie film world, the Sundance Film Festival now transcends its Rocky Mountain confines to take place simultaneously online and in such remote locales as Lawrence, Kansas, Seattle,...

THE BLAZING WORLD: Dermot Mulroney Has a Fire Inside in Exclusive Clip

Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman (Carlson Young) returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Through an epic journey down the...

CENSOR Trailer: Fiction Affects Reality in Prano Bailey-Bond's Debut Horror Film

A little behind on this one but still worth sharing. The trailer for Prano Bailey-Bond's bebut feature film, the video nasty era horror film Censor, came out yesterday. Along with it came a very nifty poster as well, which you...

CENSOR: UK-Ireland Can Expect a Cinema Release This Year!

Yes, this is the beginning of the end. If you have your shit together like the UK and Ireland have as far as getting out of the ass end of the pandemic sooner than later then you get to do...

IN THE EARTH Trailer: Ben Wheatley's Eco-Horror, in Cinemas This April, From Neon

Wasting no time since its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Neon is preparing to release Ben Wheatley's eco-horror In The Earth in cinemas on April 23rd. They released the trailer today, which you will find below.    As...

CENSOR: Magnolia Picks up North American Rights For Buzz Title From Sundance's Midnighter Section

Magnolia Pictures acquired the North American rights for Prano Bailey-Bond's video nasty horror flick Censor yesterday. Baily-Bond's debut film had its world premiere in the Midnight Section of the Sundance Film Festival and generated immediate buzz afterwards.    When film...