Festivals
Morbido 2026 Review: LA MANCHA (YOU'RE IT), García Bogliano Brothers Unite Powers for Unconventional, Experimental Playground Terror
Inside an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers become trapped in a dark curse connecting them to a parallel world.
Morbido 2026 Review: TALKING TO A STRANGER, Gigi Saul Guerrero Shines in a Distressing Maternal Nightmare
Consumed by prescription pills and overwhelming guilt after a tragic house fire kills her young son, a grieving mother becomes the prey of a demonic entity that takes the boy's face to fracture her family.
Busan 2026 Review: INHERIT, Seductive Thai Insect Horror
Director Banjong Pisanthanakun's thriller stars Davika Hoorne and Thitiya Jirapornsilp. (Watch the trailer.)
Toronto After Dark 2026 Winners: 5 MORE MINUTES Dominates Audience and Passholder Awards
The 19th Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival has officially announced its 2026 award winners, with Javier Ruiz Caldera's time-loop film 5 More Minutes leading the pack.
Sitges 2026 Interview: VINTAGE VIOLENCE Director Eugene Kotlyarenko on Livestream Villains, Yakuza Honor, and Making Fun of AI
The filmmaker reveals how a shared pair of earbuds inspired a Hitchcock-style chase, and how Japan's meticulous production methods challenged his instincts for improvisation.
Imagine 2026: Heads-Ups And Recommendations
Today sees the start of the largest Dutch genre film festival: Imagine. The Amsterdam-based festival is in its 42nd edition already, and this year they have a record 72 feature films and 55 shorts in their programme. From the 29th...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SPLIT ROCK Explores the Horrors of Nature
Clark Backo and Drew Ray Tanner encounter horror in the desert, courtesy of director Ryan Glover.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SENDER, You've Got (Some Freaky) Mail
Britt Lower, Rhea Seehorn, Anna Baryshnikov, David Dastmalchian, and Jamie Lee Curtis star in director Russell Goldman's "psychological conspiracy-laden thriller."
Tokyo 2026 Interview: SISTER BROTHER MANHOLE COVER, Milcho Manchevski on Satire and "The Death of Beauty"
Milcho Manchevski discusses the six-country co-production behind the film and the challenge of preserving artistic freedom amid political interference, funding pressures and festival expectations.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: MOUNTAIN KING, A Different Kind of Family Movie
Directed by Gabrielle Christensen, the film stars Hannah Deale, Carter Sirianni, Iryna Malygina, Keoki Trask, Juan Paulo Munevar, and Sarah Kim.
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE OBSESSED
Director Takahashi Wataru may not be a household name yet among anime fans, but the man has built an impressive resumee already. An assistant to Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli, he was one of the people working on the change from...
Morbido 2026: Alumni Returns, Sitges Winners, and Uncut Cult Classics Stack the Lineup
Our amiges y familia at Morbido have revealed the lineup for this year's festival. Typically a highlight of our year - until frickin' life got in the way! - we would always be down in CDMX every Halloween season to...
Chicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer Romance
For almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe...
Grimmfest 2026: NEVER AFTER DARK, CRAWLERS, and STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL Lead the Grimm Reaper Award Winners
Grimmfest just wrapped its 18th anniversary run at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester, and the team handed out this year's Grimm Reaper Awards. From October 8–11, the four-day fest loaded its screens with a massive block of world, international,...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside
Throughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a...
Chicago 2026 Review: THE SPIRAL Turns a Family Story Into a Faustian Nightmare
In the Italian Oscar entry, the family that makes a deal with the devil stays together.
London 2026 Review: CLUB KID, Jordan Firstman's Warm and Tragic Bad Dad Dramedy
A stealth rebuild of a middling Adam Sandler film proves to be one of the year's best and most affecting films.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own Style
In the late 1990s, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, experiences an epidemic of inexplicable deaths. One of the victims is Iris Scott (Aimee Paxton), whose strange death in the woods is eventually ruled a suicide, like most of the other...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic Slashers
While AI obviously (and rightfully) suppressed pretty much all other dangers to humanity as the villain of our times, the rabbit hole that is social media and influencer culture is still too great a fodder for filmmakers to pass up....
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you...
