Festivals: Beyond Fest
BeyondFest 2024 Review: A MOTHER'S EMBRACE, Brazilian Horror Doesn't Capitalize on Fear Building
A young firefighter, Ana, and her team take a call to an old people's home that is at risk of collapsing during the worst storm to hit Rio de Janeiro in thirty years. However, everyone is strangely reluctant to leave...
BeyondFest 2024 Review: SHADOWLAND, Compelling, Infuriating, And Sobering
In 2021 Finnish filmmaker and documentarian Otso Tiainen, together with their co-writer Kalle Kinnunen, set out to Montségur, France, a commune nestled in the French Pyreneese mountains and a homestead for practitioners of the occult. Initially filming started out as...
BeyondFest 2024 Review: BAAL, Mystery Horror Thwarted by It's Ending
Grace returns to the small town she grew up in to settle her father’s estate. She learns that her brother, David, has gone missing. In fact, a lot of people from this small town are also missing. There is rumour...
BeyondFest 2024 Review: ABOVE THE KNEE Attempts a Different Take on The Domestic Thriller
Amir has a dark secret that he’s keeping from everyone close to him. He wants to get rid of one of his legs. The left one specifically. Amir has body dysmorphic disorder, a disorder that leaves him convinced that one...
BeyondFest 2024 Review: ZERO, Servicable Thriller With a Stern Message From It's Creator
Two Americans wake up in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests. The timers on the vests tell them they have less than nine hours to find out why. Calling them #1 and #2 a mysterious...
Beyond Fest 2024: Full Lineup Announced
Beyond Fest, the massive genre film festival out of Los Angeles has announced the program for this year's festival. As expected, it is a bounty of world premieres, festival hits and classic favorites. Gary Dauberman's Salem's Lot will premiere...
Sitges 2023 Review: LAST STRAW, Taut Diner-Invasion Neo-Noir Thrills, But Doesn't Chill
The first feature-length film from writer Taylor Sardoni and director Alan Scott Neal, Last Straw answers a seemingly simple, if rarely asked, question: When is a home-invasion thriller not a home-invasion thriller? The answer is just as simple, if also...
NIGHT OF THE HUNTED: Trailer And Poster Released Ahead of October 20th Premiere on Shudder
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopathic sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE: RLJE Films And Shudder Get The Gift of Theatrical & Streaming Rights For Holiday Horror
After saving her town from a psychotic killer, Winnie Carruthers' life is less than wonderful. When she wishes she'd never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe where without her, things could be much, much worse.
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WHEN EVIL LURKS: Official Trailer And Poster Are Here, Watch at Your Own Peril
This is a public service announcement, I implore you to try and go into a screening of Demian Rugna's When Evil Lurks as blind as possible. Do not watch this trailer. Do not scroll down and look at the poster. Both...
LAST STRAW Teaser: Alan Scott Neal's Horror Thriller to Premiere at Sitges
Alan Scott Neal's debut horror thriller Last Straw will have its world premiere at Sitges laster this month, followed by the North American premiere at Beyond Fest. The frist teaser has just been sent out. Check it out down below. ...
Beyond Fest 2023: Lineup of Classic And Current Faves Highlight This Year's Edition
Beyond Fest have just unveiled the lineup for this year's edition of the two-week spectacle. As always, the lineup is a stellar mix of contemporary hits and celebrated classics. Among the classic that genre lovers will not want to...
FEED ME Teaser: XYZ Films Acquires UK Cannibal Horror For North America
Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.
Beyond Fest 2022: Full Lineup Announced. Ten World Premieres, Tributes to Park, Shatner, Friedkin And Much More
We don't know how you're going to take it all in because the complete program of this year's Beyond Fest is a beast. This year's festival boasts ten world premieres, including Halloween Ends, My Best Friend's Exorcism and Christmas...
Beyond Fest 2022: Festival Hosting The First U.S. Retrospective of RRR's Director, S.S. Rajamouli
This is fantastic news to share with you today. The RRR train just keeps on rolling! The fine folks at Beyond Fest have announced that they will host a special program called, From Tollywood to Hollywood: The Spectacle & Majesty...
THE SEED Clip: Eggs. An Excellent Source of What The Hell!?!?
What starts out as girls weekend away in the Mojave desert becomes a tale of horror, death and alien invasion. Sam Walker's debut feature horror flick, The Seed, arrives on Shudder this Thursday. They've released a clip this afternoon...
THE SEED Trailer: Ready to Alter Body And Minds This March
Lifelong friends Deidre, Heather, and Charlotte are finally getting some time away together, using the upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts out as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends...
THE SEED: Shudder Acquires Creature Feature Before World Premiere at Beyond Fest
Lifelong friends Deidre, Heather, and Charlotte are finally getting some time away together, using the upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts out as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends...
V/H/S/94 Trailer: More Bonkers And Violent Found Footage Horror is on it's Way
A Shudder Original Film, V/H/S/94 is the fourth installment in the hit horror anthology franchise and marks the return of the infamous found footage anthology with segments from franchise alumni Simon Barrett (Séance) and Timo Tjahjanto (May the Devil Take...
Beyond Fest 2021: A Lineup of New Hits And Beloved Classics Are Coming to L.A.
I always look forward to finding out what Beyond Fest has wrangled up each year, not just for the crop of current and new festival faves but for their top shelf rep programming as well. We'll get to that in...
