Festivals: Sitges
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.
Sitges 2026 Review: KICK ON, Aussie Survival Thriller Asks, Et Tu, Brute?
Colourful, entertaining, and exuberantly violent, Nick Kozakis’s debut feature makes the most of the geography and the opportunities of its single location to squeeze maximum tension and maximum gore out of its ultra-lean scenario. After running out of coke and...
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.
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.
MUERTAS VIVAS (Dead Woman Walking) Poster Premiere: Chilean Splatter Horror Comedy Heads to Sitges
Let us preface this by reminding everyone that making movies is hard. We last wrote about Sandra Arriagada's zomcom, Muertas Vivas (Dead Woman Walking), after it wrapped up filming - in early 2021. It was heading into post-production then, but it...
Friday One Sheet: SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE
The poster for Greek horror science-fiction hazy tale of unexplored grief, She Loved Blossoms More, has worthy-weird poster, with slime-green text, and a textured background of dried and oxidized blood. And of course, the key and central image of the...
Sitges 2025: First Wave Announced, Julia Ducournau's ALPHA to Open Fest
The fine folks at Sitges have announced the first wave of titles for this year's 58th edition. Julia Ducournau's Alpha will open the festival this year. Other big titles from the festival circuit this year include The Ugly Stepsister,...
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,...
1978 Official Trailer: The Onetti Brothers Disrupt The Beautiful Game, With Hard Violence!
During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention center. What...
Sitges 2024: First Wave Titles Announced, Frost And Feldman Among Honorees
Sitges, one of the biggest genre events of the year, will be here before we know it. The massive genre film festival takes over Catalonia, Spain, for eleven days in October, bringing together some of the best titles from the...
Sitges 2023 Review: HALFWAY HOME, Romance Before the Afterlife
Hungarian director Isti Madarasz orchestrates a whimsical journey between the living and the dead with Péter Bárnai, Vivien Rujder and Erzsébet Kútvölgyi.
Sitges 2023: Demian Rugna's WHEN EVIL LURKS Makes History at Fest, Wins Best Feature Film
Shortly after noon EST the Argentinian thread in my Whatsapp exploded with congratulatory messages for Demian Rugna once his film When Evil Lurks won the best feature film award in the Official In Competition Selection at Sitges. This is...
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...
Friday One Sheet: WHEN EVIL LURKS
No point beating around the bush on this one, California's Mocean design house goes full on distressed red sky and deep black shadows for slow burn Argentinian possession horror, When Evil Lurks. The tagline, "There is no point in praying" is...
Friday One Sheet: SITGES #56
It cannot pass without mentioning how much the design team for the Sitges Film Festival, or rather, Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, simply aced the key art this year. On a creamy white field (the similar colour of an...
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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...
Sitges 2023: DREAM SCENARIO, Starring Nic Cage, to Close Festival
Only a few more weeks until the 56th edition of Sitges arrives. The festival has announce the closing film for this year's festival, Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario, starring Nic Cage. Dream Scenario had its world premiere at TIFF the...
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. ...
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BARN Teaser: Horror Comedy From Magnus Martens Selling Globally, Quickly!
The life dream of the Nordheims comes true: going back to their roots and moving to their old family farm in the Norwegian Mountains. Unfortunately, they are sharing this dream with one of the trickier mythical creatures in Nordic folklore:...
AUXILIO - THE POWER OF SIN Trailer: Next Stop For Argentine Horror Thriller, Sitges!
It's 1931. Emilia, a young rebel with a defiant spirit, is sent by her father to a convent. Her arrival unleashes paranormal manifestations in the place, which grow increasingly powerful for all the inhabitants, including the nuns and the mentally...
