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HELLCAT Trailer: Isolating Psychological Horror Infects Shudder August 14th
A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound. A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she'll suffer a horrific fate.
STARSUCKERS: The Butler Brothers' Dark Satire to Premiere at FrightFest 2026
When an ordinary couple wins an exclusive weekend with their celebrity idols, they discover the glamorous power couple are hiding murderous secrets, forcing them into a twisted game of deception and survival where fame, desire, and identity become deadly obsessions.
Popcorn Frights 2026 Second Wave: THE END OF OAK STREET Added, DRAG to Close
Plus: William Sadler, Robert Kurtzman, all-night 'Wishmaster,' 18 new premieres.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Review: THE GUEST Serves Nordic Cringe as Family Dramedy
A restrained yet incisive Nordic tragicomedy, The Guest spins the dysfunctional-family drama for a millennial generation through claustrophobic staging, corrosive microaggressions, and Trine Dyrholm's meticulously ambiguous performance.
Fantasia 2026: Raising the Curtain on the 30th Edition of Montreal's Smorgasbord of Genre Cinema
The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America's current largest genre festival runs from July 16 to August 2, in its 30th edition. With its large size, and 'big tent' scope of everything from everywhere as long it is never...
RUBBERHEAD: THE LIFE AND MONSTERS OF STEVE JOHNSON: Official Trailer For Fantasia-bound Documentary
Known for his intense work ethic, perfectionism, and obsession with breaking new ground, Steve Johnson created iconic creatures and effects for some of the most beloved horror and sci-fi movies in cinema history.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: A HAPPY FAMILY Director Jan-Eric Mack and Star Anna Schinz on Poverty, Motherhood, Breaking the Rules of Social Drama
Swiss director Jan-Eric Mack and actress Anna Schinz discuss how they shaped the film as a socially engaged thriller, approached its moral ambiguities, and worked with two first-time child actors.
FID Marseille 2026 Review: MOTHER, YOU HAVE NOT DIED YET. BUT YOU WILL. AND WHEN YOU DO, YOU WILL FINALLY BE ALIVE AGAIN, Impressionistic Take on Grief and History
Directed by Advik Beni. Merging past and present, personal and historical, the film has a quality of a lucid dream.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: THE GUEST Director Mads Mengel on Family Trauma and Finding Humor in Pain
Danish director Mads Mengel discusses his feature debut, Denmark's tradition of family dramas, the film's restrained microaggressions, and creating the conditions for productive chaos on set.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: THE GUEST Star Trine Dyrholm on Playing Beyond Diagnosis and Embracing Creative Risk
The acclaimed Danish actor discusses embracing first-time filmmakers, finding the human being behind mental illness, improvising within a rigorously conceived script and refusing to pass judgment on the volatile mother at the center of Mads Mengel's family drama.
SUNDOWN: First Look Images From Rebekah McKendry's New Monster Movie
Three generations of women reunite in a remote cabin to avenge a loved one's death, only to discover their captive isn't who he seems to be and his family is closing in, waiting for sundown.
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: RAIN CATCHER Filmmaker Michele Fiascaris on Voyeurism and Building a Neo-Noir on a Limited Budget
The Italian-born, London-based filmmaker discusses casting Dudley O'Shaughnessy, drawing on David Fincher and Brian De Palma, and transforming the Barbican into a psychological maze.
Opening This Week: THE ODYSSEY, STEAL AWAY, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
Plus: 'The Kidnapping of Arabella' and '40 Watts From Nowhere.'
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: MY FRIEND THE PORN STAR Filmmaker Rosa Friedrich on Deepfake and Intimacy
Austrian filmmaker Rosa Friedrich discusses the making of the unconventional documentary.
New York Asian 2026 Review: COLONY Puts Yeon Song-ho Back In The Undead Driver's Seat
Zombies in a mall, you say? It’s been done before but leave it to Korean genre master Yeon Song-ho to take everything you think you know about the living dead and crank it up to eleven and you’ve got another...
GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS Review: One Of The Year's Funniest Films Is Here
When her fiancé Tom (Michael Cassidy) cashes in his celebrity hall pass in the back room of a local bookstore, poor Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is heartbroken. What was once a whimsical thought exercise has now become very real. The...
CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN Video Interview: Dominic Hardy Sheds Further Light
Some films never die. They just keep demanding sacrifices. In the case of The Wicker Man (1973), those sacrifices have been many and varied: Those made in the service of shooting and releasing the film, and dealing with financial fallout....
WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME: Poster & Trailer Premiere For Ngozi Onwurah's Afrofuturist Drama, New 2K Restoration to Screen in New York Later This Month
Ngozi Onwurah's radical Afrofuturist vision from 1995 got a new 2K Restoration and will start screening in New York on July 31st before a national rollout.
Now Playing: EVIL DEAD BURN, WESTHAMPTON, THE ISOLATE THIEF
Plus: 'Moana,' 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,' 'Mockbuster,' 'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' 'Black Chariot,' 'Crossing.'
Friday One Sheet: WOMAN, DYING
This is the third time that Spanish art director and designer Octavio Terol Bernabé has been featured in this column. Previous designs both made the Top 10 posters of 2025. It is safe to say that we are fans of...
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