Festivals
Fantaspoa 2026 Review: REMANENTE: VOLTAGEM Delivers Scrappy, Lo-Fi Cosmic Horror
Two paramedics stumble upon treasure in an old basement. They accidentally open a dimensional portal, unleashing a cosmic horror-a creature determined to reclaim its gold at any cost.
PANDA Review: Beautiful Poetry for Marginalised People in Suburban China
Directed by Zhang Xinyang, the film combines the suffering of people with the charm they display while enduring it.
Guadalajara 2026 Review: THE AWAKENING (El Despertar), Echoes of History, Buried in Confusion
An elite military unit goes deep into the Colombian jungle to eliminate a strategic target. However, once they have completed the mission the unit finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives as the violence awakens supernatural forces in...
Sitges2026: Reveals The Projects For Fantastic 7 at Marche du Film
Marche du Film is a great time to be a genre fan because not only is the market full of productions looking for international sales but our friends at festivals and co-pros around the world gather en masse to drum...
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: CLAIRE'S HAT: THE UNMAKING OF A FILM
It seems strange to be writing a review for a film that is over 20 years old, about another film that few have seen. Given its rogue construction, and unorthodox structure and style, Claire’s Hat has been screened publicly...
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: BAGWORM, Visually Excoriates Modern Masculine Isolation
A man should have his house in order. Carroll’s house is most definitely not in order. He appears to be living in a burned out shell of a structure with the roof about to fall down on him. Seeing...
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: HANGASHORE, An Oblique Foggy Nightmare
When sailors or fishermen head out to sea, they do not wish to hear their family say goodbye out of a fear of not coming home. There is no whistling at sea, for fear of conjuring up a storm. Having...
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: LITTLE DOORS, A Tentative Dance Around Trust
“Things never got so bleak that I took up a hobby.” This sums up the world of Little Doors. The country is in a kind of ‘soft apocalypse’ where the big city may be on fire, and things are...
Beyond Fest Chicago Video Interview: Meiko Kaji, The Legendary Lady Snowblood Herself
Beyond Fest’s first year here in Chicago went off without a hitch. Sold out screenings brought huge crowds and created instant community amongst Music Box Theater regulars, industry professionals and excited out-of-towners. I experienced this first-hand as I...
Friday One Sheet: KINDERGARTEN
The poster for this Quebec observational documentary on early childhood, through the titular jardin d'enfants (kindergarden), has at its centre a whimsical, but dense, illustration from France's Jean Millard. His work in watercolor and gouache (a water-based, opaque paint known for its...
Fantaspoa 2026 Review: IAI
About twenty-five years ago, Japan's special kind of horror suddenly spread over the world like a virus. This horror had none of the fun exuberance of slashers, none of the tongue-in-cheek references to popular culture, and none of the gorefests...
Overlook 2026 Awards: OBSESSION, THE FURIOUS And NEVER AFTER DARK Among Winners
As quickly as it arrived Overlook has surrendered itself to the night in New Orleans. The festivities have wrapped up and it is time for the award winners to be announced.
THE AWAKENING (El Despertar): The Posthumous Work of Director Jaime Osorio Marquez to Premiere at Guadalajara
An elite military unit is deployed to the jungle to eliminate a strategic target; however, the mission takes a dark turn as the soldiers face supernatural forces that force them into a desperate fight for their lives.
Calgary Underground 2026: Curtain Raiser
Growing considerably over the last five years, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has been continuing its mission as a fan-focused festival. Simultaneously, it has steadily increased the number of Canadian and International talents converging on the city for 11...
MOVIEDREAMS: Argentine Psychological Thriller To Present During Blood Window Showcase at Marché du Film
Let us introduce you to an Argetine psychological thriller that will make its first appearance in Fantastic Pavilion's Blood Window Showcase during Marche du Film at Cannes.
Overlook 2026 Review: TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL Brings A Thirty Year Project Full Circle
It's been a little over thirty years since indie horror godfather Larry Fessenden burst into the consciousness of the underground with his sideways vampire epic, Habit. In the decades since then, he and his Glass Eye Pix production house have...
TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL Exclusive Clip: Kicking a Hornet's Nest
A new film by horror indie auteur Larry Fessenden is always cause for celebration, and for those lucky enough to be attending the Overlook Film Festival, they have the chance to attend the world premiere of his new film Trauma or,...
Shudder Announces Acquisition of Three Titles Ahead of Overlook Screenings: PARASOMNIA, GOODY GOODY And NEW GROUP
Shudder announces three new acquisitions, three films that are screening at the Overlook Film Festival this coming weekend.
Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance
Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.
THE INVITE Trailer: Invite The Neighbors Over For Dinner, They Said. It'll be Fun, They Said.
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
