Now Streaming: MEAT KILLS, Or Rather Misguided People Do...
Hailed as "the bloodiest Dutch horror movie ever" and proudly touting the NC17 rating it got during its States-based festival run, Martijn Smits' Vleesdag a.k.a. Meat Kills seems to be gunning for the gorehounds. As such I almost didn't see...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2025 Review: HOW DARE YOU?
The Netherlands have their very own Japanese Film Festival. It's called Camera Japan and is held every year in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This year, the festival opened with a treat: Korean-Japanese director O Mipo's Futsū no Kodomo, which translates literally...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: HOW TO MAKE A KILLING Is A Fun Look At Corruption
Vlissingen's Film by the Sea Festival always has a special section for French films, and one of the funniest this year was Franck Dubosc's criminal caper Un Ours Dans le Jura. This literally translates to "A Bear in the Jura",...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: THE TASTERS
In December 2012, an interview with the then 95-year-old Margot Wölk netted the interviewer a remarkable story. Margot Wölk revealed she had been a food taster for Adolf Hitler during the second world war, whenever he visited his Eastern Headquarters...
Pretty Packaging: THE KEEP Cross Replica Limited Edition Is A Keeper
Physical media may be considered a niche market nowadays, but if you're part of that niche, life is rich (or at least you'll need to be...). There is no shortage of great editions available in different formats. Most of my...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: Brendan Canty's CHRISTY
Normally with reviews, we try to put the title of the film as close to the beginning of the header as we can get. We are bound by the rules of search engines just as much as all other websites,...
HALLOWIEBE Review: Fun Family Fodder
Halloween as a party has been on the rise in the Netherlands for the past decade, and though it is nowhere near as popular here as in the United States, it's still gaining traction fast. So while we have a...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: A WOMAN LIKE MONIQUE
The Dutch actress Monique van de Ven is the closest what we have in the Netherlands to Film Royalty. Entering the movie industry back in 1973 at the age of 19, her debut alongside Rutger Hauer in Paul Verhoeven's Turkish...
Vlissingen 2025: Recommendations
Next weekend sees the start of the 27th Film by the Sea Festival in the town of Vlissingen (Flushing), in the South-West of the Netherlands. A harbortown with beautiful beaches, it's in an area of scattered islands and peninsulas (and...
Pretty Packaging: THE QUATERMASS (E)XPERIMENT a.k.a. THE CREEPING UNKNOWN
(Here comes the Hammer!) When the John Gore Organization announced in August 2023 that they had acquired the rights and name of British horror legend Hammer Films and Studios, this raised a few eyebrows. What would they do with all...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2025
Due to February being so short, the second half of 2025 starts today (instead of on the first of July). Logic dictates that this means the first half of 2025 is over and done with... meaning we can make a...
Pretty Packaging: The MANDY German Ultimate Edition Should Not Be Sent Away
When we started publishing the Pretty Packaging articles here at ScreenAnarchy, we made a conscious decision to NOT go into private collections and take out some weird obscure old editions which happened to be awesome. No, the focus would be...
Cannes 2025: A Look At What The Mad Scientists Are Doing...
The world's most famous film festival rounds up today, and we've had plenty of reviews in the past weeks. But Cannes also has a business side of course, a vast market where people try and get their projects financed, scout...
Joseph Kahn's SANDBOX Music Video Provides Muppet Mayhem
Ouch... rock band The All-American Rejects seem to be losing a member here, in this screenshot from the music video for their new single Sandbox. Earlier this year, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, our Theodoor Steen interviewed director Joseph...
Pretty Packaging: The SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 3 Boxset Still Kicks Shins
When I had the second Shawscope boxset featured in a Pretty Packaging article, the last thing I wrote was: "Any bets on whether Volume Three will be green or yellow?" Well... Volume Three is here, and this time there is...
Pretty Packaging: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 Haunts Harder
Back in 2021, writer-director Kier-La Janisse released Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a great 3-hours-(and-14-minutes)-long documentary about witchcraft and mysticism around the world, especially as seen in films. That documentary didn't just get a special release on Blu-ray, it basically...
Rotterdam 2025: What The Audiences Liked Best
Three weeks ago, Rotterdam wrapped up its International Film Festival, and a few days after that they published the final results of their audience ratings, which is always a highlight for me. As the saying goes, everybody is a critic,...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: MEMOIR OF A SNAIL Gets You, Pacing Be Damned
Back in 2009 we were treated to one of the best films ever made about autism, and it was, surprise surprise, an animated puppet feature. That was Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot, who had previously won an Academy...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: I'M STILL HERE Will Not Fade From Your Memory
In 1970, Brazil was suffering under a military dictatorship. Political opponents and critics were arrested, tortured and murdered. As much as 20,000 people were "disappeared" under the regime. One of them was Rubens Pavia, an architect who had been a...
