Festivals News
Morbido 2024 Review: DEUS IRAE, Argentine Exorcism Horror Challenges With Structure And Content
Father Javier is a man with a mission, and an addiction. His mission is to visit families with family members who are under some kind of spell. Javier does not believe that these incidents are nothing more than psychological or...
Morbido 2024 Review: A FISHERMAN'S TALE, Social Perils And The Mythical Creature Who Made it Worse
Edgar Nito’s rural legend horror flick, A Fisherman’s Tale, opens at dusk with a shot of La Miringua. Her back is turned to us and we’re looking at her from a distance, peering at her through branches of a tree....
Morbido 2024 Review: PORTRAITS OF THE APOCALYPSE, Human Reactions in a Time of Crisis in Argentine Zombie Horror Anthology
A cop investigates a crime scene on the cusp of a zombie outbreak. Arguing with herself, she tries to cover up a mistake not knowing that something worse is about to happen. After a night out with the boys...
Morbido 2024 Review: 1978, Historical Horror Descends Into Hellish Chaos
June 25th, 1978. It is the day of the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland. It is also a time of military dictatorship, a junta has taken over the country. A death squad is under orders to find a...
DREAM WALKER: Filmmaker Sarah Kelley to Pitch Indigenous Teen Sci-Fi to Market at Whistler Film Festival + Content Summit
We're always on the lookout for any Indigenous genre projects from anywhere around the World, but specifically here in Canada and Turtle Island. When news of a teen sci-fi called Dream Walker from Algonquin filmmaker Sarah Kelley crossed our desk we knew...
HOUSE OF ASHES Exclusive Clip: Maybe Ghosts Aren't so Stupid, Marc?
By all accounts the premiere of Izzy Lee's debut supernatural and topical horror flick, House of Ashes, was a rip-roaring success. Word from our friend and fellow Anarchist, Lee, is that the screening at Brooklyn Horror went very well. No...
Lausanne 2024 Awards: MAKAMISA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE, Khavn de la Cruz's Experimental Surreal Parable, Takes Top Prize
Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF) concluded its 23rd edition with a community-driven celebration of experimental cinema and sound.
A Superb Trailer for Brady Corbet's 70mm Epic, THE BRUTALIST
One of the best films of the year gets one of the best trailers of the year. Harnessing an early scene in the film, before breaking into a montage of the celebration of artictectural form, with the joy and pain...
Brooklyn Horror 2024 Review: HOUSE OF ASHES
Mia’s under house arrest for the crime of miscarriage, but must also contend with the lingering, suspicious death of her husband Adam. He was found dead in the vet clinic they once ran together. Mia was exhonerated from any murder...
Morbido 2024: CDMX Genre Fest Announces Lineup, Local Hit PARVULOS Will Open
Mórbido, my Mexican home away from home, has announced the lineup for this year's festival. As expected there are a tonne of great films coming to CDMX at the end of the month and I'm super sad that I'm not...
Sitges 2024 Review: PUSH, A Well Crafted Horror Thriller
After the death of her fiancé, Natalie moved to America for a fresh start. When we catch up with her she is 8 months pregnant at her job as a real estate agent. She has take on a challenging listing,...
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: 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...
PSYCHONAUT Has a Poster, A Trailer, And A World Première At The Brooklyn Horror Festival
Seven years ago, Dutch filmmaker Thijs Meuwese co-directed the science fiction film Molly, a film overflowing with ingenuity, a no-budget post-apocalyptic superhero epic. You can read my review here... That film had an incredibly impressive finale, and it marked its...
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...
Fantastic Fest 2024: BRING THEM DOWN, THE RULE OF JENNY PEN Among Winners
With a couple more days left in the madness that is Fantastic Fest this year's award winners were announced by the festival. Christopher Andrews' drama thriller Bring Them Down, starring Barry Keoghegan and Christopher Abbott was awarded Best Picture...
KRAZY HOUSE Official Trailer: Nick Frost And Alicia Silverstone Star in New Flick From NEW KIDS Duo
Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil's violent satire Krazy House is coming to VOD on October 4th and the official trailer is here to mark the occasion. When Russian workers in Bernie’s house turn out to be wanted...
MotelX 2024: ODDITY And THE SUBSTANCE Among Award Winners
MotelX has wrapped up this year's edition of the festival. As per usual, the festival had a program packed with local and international talent. In that regard everyone is a winner but when it comes to to the awards handed...
STRANGE HARVEST Trailer: New Faux-Doc Horror From GRAVE ENCOUNTERS' Stuart Ortiz
A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades. Strange Harvest will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest soon. The trailer has gone...
