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Melbourne 2020 Review: BLACK BEAR, a Gaslight Meta Nightmare

Black Bear could be a Hitchcock inspired-indie thriller that opens with actor--director-writer Allison (Aubrey Plaza), collecting her towel from a lake’s small dock, making her way inside a cabin where she sits, notebook and pen at the ready; a title...

Review: ALWAYS SHINE, an Intensely Personal and Satisfying Genre Picture

Director Sophia Takal more than fulfills the considerable promise of her debut Green with her second feature, a film that often looks, acts and feels like a thriller/horror flick, but at its heart is a dramatic treatise on the tyranny...

MonsterFest 2016: A Gunfight, Deadly Relatives and an Autopsy Lead First Wave of Titles

MonsterFest is coming! Prepare yourselves, Melbourne, Australia, for your fill of fantastic film delights at the end of November. The first wave of titles was announced today and there are heaps of goodness coming to Melbs.    Attendees will see...

Tribeca 2016 Review: ALWAYS SHINE, In Which The Hollywood Dream Factory Becomes A Nightmare

Director Sophia Takal more than fulfills the considerable promise of her debut Green with her second feature, a film that often looks, acts and feels like a thriller/horror flick, but at its heart is a dramatic treatise on the tyranny...

Tribeca 2016 Review: ALWAYS SHINE, In Which the Hollywood Dream Factory Becomes A Nightmare

Director Sophia Takal more than fulfills the considerable promise of her debut Green with her second feature, a film that often looks, acts and feels like a thriller/horror flick, but at its heart is a dramatic treatise on the tyranny...

Review: WILD CANARIES, An Effervescent Comic Murder Mystery, Both Retro And Modern

One of the most interesting forms of music sampling is what's known as the "mash-up." In some of the best and most creative examples of this practice - e.g. Danger Mouse's Grey Album (Jay Z's Black Album/Beatles' White Album) or...

Cannes 2014: Epic Pictures To Take V/H/S VIRAL

The V/H/S franchise is going to go viral at Cannes. Epic Pictures Group will handle sales for the third installment of the found footage horror franchise, V/H/S Viral, at the market this year. The Collective and Bloody Disgusting are producing...

The Mo Brothers' MACABRE Finally Hits The US In November, Check Out The New Trailer

Been waiting for your shot at a legal copy of The Mo Brothers' intensely bloody Indonesian horror film Macabre on US shores? Well, here it comes. Hitting online VOD November 1 with a limited edition DVD following November 5 from...

Hey, Canada! Win A Copy of VHS 2 On BluRay!

Hey, Canada! Hit horror anthology VHS 2 hits BluRay on Tuesday from Mongrel Media and we've got five copies to give away! You want one to call your own? Couldn't be easier! Just email me here and name the two...

Check A Trio Of VHS 2 Episode Posters

With horror anthology VHS 2 now available on VOD in the US distributors Magnet Releasing have been teasing audiences with poster art devoted to individual short films included in the project. Things got rolling with posters for Adam Wingard's Clinical...

NSFW: Dare to Press Play on the V/H/S/2 Red Band Trailer!

Two things to note heading into the red band trailer for V/H/S/2. One, if you want to be really impressed by what this second batch of directors have pulled off for the sequel then go right ahead. Two, there is...