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HALLOWARRIOR Official Trailer: Shudder Original Starring Milly Shapiro Streaming This October
On the eve of Halloween, Pumpkin, the sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, must use her candy, wit, and weapons to ferociously defend her wasteland home from a savage gang of raiders led by the fearsome Thalia.
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MAGICK MTN. Trailer: A Supernatural, Rock-and-Roll Occult Horror Fairytale... So... A Bit of Everything?
Ghosts, Goblins, and Crowley. Magick Mtn. is a rock & roll fairytale set deep in Laurel Canyon using instruments of the occult to dig beneath the soil of a hillside marked by tragedy and death.
LA MANCHA (YOU'RE IT) Trailer: New Horror From The Garcia Bogliano Brothers
Inside an amusement park, a group of children and teenagers become trapped in a dark curse connecting them to a parallel world.
Access:Horror 2026: One Day Live Event Next Week, Program Streams Later in October
The folks from the Access:Horror Film Festival are returning with a hybrid format focused on disability representation and intersectional storytelling in genre cinema. The festival begins with an in-person opening night showcase on Friday, September 25th at 8:00 PM at...
MOTELX 2026 Award Winners: NO REST FOR THE WICKED And MANCAVE win Best European films, IT'S CHICO TIME! wins Best Portuguese Short
The twentieth edition of this year's MOTELX film festival is drawing to a close today. The award winners were announced yesterday, so it is time for a bit of catch up. The Méliès d’argent Awards for the best European...
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Beyond Fest 2026: Announcing a Full Line-up, a Bevy of Premieres, Reperatory, Restoration and Anniversary Screenings to Delight Genre Fans
Those fine folks at Beyond Fest have announced the full line-up of features, reperatory, anniversary and 4K screenings at this year's festival.
Toronto After Dark 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced, Featuring I LOVE PARIS, FROGMAN RETURNS, And 5 MORE MINUTES
Our friends at Toronto After Dark have announced the first four titles for this year's 19th edition of the festival. This year's festival will feature the Canadian Premiere of timey wimey flick 5 More Minutes, the fabulously funnny vampire...
Venice 2026: Exclusive UNTIL THE DAY ENDS Poster Premiere
Jelena Maksimović's fiction-feature debut, set to world premiere in the 83rd Venice International Film Festival's Orizzonti competition, follows two young people divided by politics but united by a desire for freedom.
BEYOND FEST 2026: Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan, a Retrospective of The Filmmaker's Work
With the arrival of September our attention turns to one of the big genre events happening this month in the U.S. - Beyond Fest. The first big announcement is this year's retrospective program. Last year the festival celebrated the...
Vlissingen 2026: FILM BY THE SEA Recommendations
On Friday the 11th of September, Vlissingen's Film by the Sea festival starts. It's the 28th edition this year, and it has become one of the largest and most glamorous festivals in the Netherlands. Last year saw over 45 thousand...
BLOODY TENNIS Official Trailer: Releases on Shudder on September 25th
Nikias Chryssos's sports themed horror Bloody Tennis releases on Shudder on September 25th. The movie had its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival and is all set to have its North American Premiere at Fantastic Fest next month. The official...
NY's MUSCLEFEST: Part Film Festival, Part Celebration of Underground Trans and Queer Cinema
Running September 3-6, Muscle Distribution and the Roxy Cinema present MuscleFest, a four-night mini-festival celebrating the distributor's deep-cut restorations, alongside a fearless slate of underground trans and queer cinema. I discovered Muscle Distribution last year at Fantastic Fest with their...
Breda 2026: Prepare For Pests, Poop And Performances
In the Netherlands, the film festival season is upon us. Every few weeks there will be another big film festival, and kicking off the pack this coming weekend is Breda's B-Film, Underground and Trash Film Festival, known as BUT for...
HY3NA: Our First Look at Matthew Ninaber's Hyper-Stylized Thriller (Exclusive)
A desperate young woman falls under the control of a seductive predator, becoming both a pawn in a lethal power dynamic and the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.
MOTELX 2026: DRAG Yourself to Lisbon This September, Full Programme For 20th Edition Announced
Our friends at MOTELX are preparing to hold their 20th anniversary edition of the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival. No small feat, making it to twenty years is indeed a big milestone for our friends in Portugal and they have...
BLOOD SECRET: The Horror Collective Acquires Supernatural Horror Ahead of FrightFest Premiere
When a reconciliation dinner with her best friend turns into a nightmare of inexplicable, terrifying events, an isolated woman must fight to survive the night in a house she suspects is genuinely haunted or hostile.
Toronto 2026: Frontières And TIFF: The Genre Co-production Market Announces Seven Projects For Inaugural Showcase
Our friends at Frontières have announced the seven projects the will present during their inaugrual showcase at TIFF: The Market.
RiverRun 2027: Heading in a New Direction, With Their New Vision Announced
We're always happy to hear of film festivals that change and adapt to the times, and the RiverRun International Film Festival is embarking with a bold new vision for its 29th annual edition. We're also very glad to hear the...
Locarno 2026 Industry: Three African Projects Share Open Doors' Grant
Projects from Uganda, Somalia, Djibouti and Ghana led the awards, while 'Chapa 100' and 'The Ones with the Tempered Flowers' secured additional development and pitching support.
Locarno 2026 Industry: THE SURUBÍ, SPRING STORY and YAZZ Lead Locarno Pro Awards
Uruguayan works-in-progress dominated First Look, while projects spanning a UN-compound drama, queer musical, ecological body horror and Bruce LaBruce's latest secured support through Alliance 4 Development.
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