Lucrecia Martel suggested in her introduction to the sold-out screening of her much anticipated follow-up to Headless Woman that the audience might want to take in Zama like a whiskey. Indeed, it's a heady, at times bitter, at times sweet...
It is good to see that outside of the work of Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster and Dogtooth) that the genre scene in Greece is being upheld by the work of the organizers of the...
Argentinian director Demian Rugna was at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival for the European premiere of his excellent horror shocker Terrified (Aterrados). Along with premiering his film to a European audience he also shared new posters for his flick...
Guillermo Amoedo Schultze, a director and writer from Uruguay, has been steadily making a name for himself in the LatAm horror scene over the years. When he was not writing commercial comedies he penned screenplays for the horror and thriller...
If you live in Vancouver for once in your life the high cost of living and unaffordable housing market is finally playing in your favor. Vancouver International Film Festival and our familia from the Morbido Film Festival are coming together...
Where does greatness begin? In our exclusive clip from Elis, greatness begins in a crowded club where Elis Regina gives a scintillating performance. The singer began her career at the age of 11 and recorded her first album when she...
Though the acquisition of Lucio Rojas' savage horror film Trauma was a done deal in the middle of February, the addition of Gonzalo Calzada's Luciferina to Artsploitation's roster warrants a mention. The genre label plans to release these two LatAm...
Terrific news from Screen Daily yesterday for our good friends at Grupo Morbido and Demian Rugna, director of the great shocker Terrified (Aterrados), and his production team in Argentina. Grupo Mórbido, the Mexican distributor run by Mórbido Film Fest...
Last week I wrote a column praising [REC], the seminal Spanish horror film, and one that I believe kickstarted the entire found footage sub-genre as we know it today. Well, now [REC] is back in the news, this time as...
Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s LGBTQ drama Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta) from Brazil will have its world premiere in the Panorama programme in Berlin Sunday night, February 18th. Screen Anarchy is pleased to debut the new teaser for the film...
The excitement surrounding Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's 2007 found footage film, [REC], is hard to explain to anyone who wasn't tracking horror movies 10 years ago. There was a palpable groundswell of anticipation among genre fans here on domestic...
Chilean director Patricio Valladares (Downhill and Toro Loco) wrote us today to let us know that his latest horror flick, Night World, starring Jason London and horror icon Robert Englund will arrive on Nerflix US on February 16th. You will...
"We're aware of the so-called "elevated genre" discussion, but we always treated this aspect of the film with love, and not as an opposition of regular drama" Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra on Good Manners
In 2016, Álex Anwandter's Chilean LGBT drama You'll Never Be Alone was one of the films that lit up Berlinale's programme from the heart of Panorama (read the review). And since then, Pablo Larraín has cemented his respected standing with...
H.P. Lovecraft fans will know that the famed horror author claimed that five original copies of his fictional grimioire, the Necronomicon, are held in five institutions around the World. One of them just happens to be in Buenos Aires, Argentina....
Guto Parente's Brazilian dark cannibal comedy The Cannibal Club (O Clube Dos Canibais) will have its World Premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival at the end of the month. Screen Anarchy is pleased to debut the trailer for Parente's...
As Gustavo Hernandez's latest horror film You Shall Not Sleep (No Dormiras) looks to begin rolling out in LatAm territories this coming Thursday it is time to start looking outward and see what international interest can be drawn to it....
When all female horror anthology XX premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year no small amount of attention went to Mexican stop motion animator Sofia Carrillo for her stunning opening sequence and interstitial work throughout. Carrillo is simply an...
Reminding me that I don't know anything, really, Chavela is a 'music doc' that proves to be more revealing than that marketing term might imply. Out on home video from Music Box Films today (January 2, 2018), Chavela is a...
