Festivals News
Tokyo 2026 Exclusive: SISTER BROTHER MANHOLE COVER Poster Premiere
Milcho Manchevski returns to Tokyo with an offbeat social comedy about survival, solidarity, and the families people create for themselves.
SUCUMBIR (SUCCUMB): Your First Look at Colombian Rural Horror, Heading to Sitges Next Month
In an isolated rural community in the Colombian mountains, evil takes shape inside Abraham and Isabel's home through the existence of Lazarus. Guided by their own local beliefs and ancestral rituals, they confront the unknown in a desperate attempt to end their torment.
THE DARK GETS IN Teaser: Mock-True Crime Documentary to Premiere at Beyond Fest
When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.
Chilliwack Independent Film Festival 2026: Indie Fest Announces Lineup And Partnership With CREEP's Mark Duplass
Filmmaker Mark Duplass has partnered with the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival as an industry mentor for its new micro-budget film grant initiative, which the festival is celebrating with a secret pop-up screening of Creep 2 and a live Q&A with director Patrick Brice.
Toronto After Dark 2026: Nature Thriller WHALEFALL to Open 19th Edition
The 19th edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival has announced the complete lineup of features and short films. The rather intense looking nature thriller Whalefall will open this year's festival. Brian Duffield's thriller stars Zach Cregger alumni Austin...
New York 2026 Kicks Off Tonight With PAPER TIGER
The 64th edition of the New York Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of James Gray's crime drama Paper Tiger. We might call the film an elevated genre picture, considering the filmmaker, the stars, and, of course, its...
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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.
