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HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK Interview: Director Morihito Inoue Talks Jaws, Bureaucracy, and Omnipotent Screen Sharks
We discuss a killer shark satire that's fun to soak in,
Neuchâtel 2025: THE ICE TOWER Wins Best Feature Film, THE UGLY STEPSISTER Wins The Silver Méliès
The fine folks the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival wrapped up the twenty-fourth edition of their festival this weekend. With the conclusion of the festival comes the awards Lucile Hadžihalilović's dark fantasy, The Ice Queen, won the jury prize for...
SOVEREIGN Review: Nick Offerman Delivers a Powerhouse Performance in Timely Tale of Far-Right Extremism
In writer-director Christian Swegal’s impressive feature debut, Sovereign, Emmy Award-winner Nick Offerman, best known for his long-running role on Parks & Recreation as Ron Swanson, a curmudgeonly libertarian with a heart of gold press latinum, delivers a powerhouse performance as...
OPUS Review: Mixing Splatter Horror and Black Comedy Into Satire
Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Stephanie Suganami, Young Mazino, and Tatanka Means star in director Mark Anthony Green's debut feature.
PUSH Review: Pregnancy Horror, With a Stalking Killer in the House
Alicia Sanz, Raúl Castillo, David Alexander Flinn star in a horror thriller, directed by David Charbonier and Justin Douglas Powell. Now streaming on Shudder.
QUEENS OF THE DEAD: IFC And Shudder Acquire Tina Romero's Queer Zombie Debut
Drag queens and club kids battle zombies craving brains during a zombie outbreak at their drag show in Brooklyn, putting personal conflicts aside to utilize their distinct abilities against the undead threat.
BABY ASSASSINS 3 Trailer: On Digital & Blu-ray August 26th
Teenage assassins Chisato and Mahiro visit the coastal city of Miyazaki when they unexpectedly cross paths with a bloodthirsty assassin who's looking to add to his personal body count.
Frontières 2025: Industry Seminars & Power Houses Announcement
As the best three weeks you could have in Summer in Montreal nears particular focus today centers on some of the final programming to be announced for this years Frontières Market. Aside from the general program and pitches other panels...
DANIELA FOREVER Review: The Elusive Perfection of Dreams
Henry Golding stars in the latest feature by Nacho Vigalondo.
Popcorn Frights 2025: First Wave Opens with BODYCAM, NIGHT OF THE REAPER
Nothing beats the heat like a little horror. Or a lot. Or how about 11 nights of "pure unfiltered terror"? The 11th edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival will offer all that, in-person in South Florida from August 7-17,...
THE UNDERTONE: First Look at Canadian Horror, Premieres at Fantasia This Month!
The host of an 'all-things-creepy' podcast moves into her mother's house and begins to receive anonymous recordings of a couple spiraling into madness. As she plays them, she realizes the woman's story is a mirror of her own and each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.
Now Streaming: James Gunn's SUPER Dresses Like Superman, Bashes Like a Lovelorn Maniac
Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Elliot Page, and Kevin Bacon star in 'Superman' filmmaker James Gunn's sophomore feature.
VIDEOHEAVEN Interview: Alex Ross Perry on Finding Clips, Video Stores and Their Place in Social Culture
Director Alex Ross Perry digs into the history of video stores in his documentary, then goes beyond that to explore how popular culture was affected, both then and now.
ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE Review: The Operatic Joie & Tristesse de Vivre
There are many itterations of the prostitute shown on the silver screen: the woman forced into the profession because of poverty, the streetwalker who faces constant danger of violence, the high class call girl, the working girl, the 'hooker with...
FOREIGNER: Raven Banner Acquires Worldwide Rights Ahead of World Premiere at Fantasia
In the age of low-rise jeans and flip phones, a Persian teen trying to fit in with her new Canadian clique dyes her hair blonde -- and invites a monstrous force into her life.
HOLD THE FORT Teaser Trailer: Horror Comedy to Have World Premiere at Fantasia!
After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.
40 ACRES Review: A Family Defends Against Deadly Incursion In This Dystopian Horror
In a future where society has crumbled following decades of famine and disease, one black Canadian family defends their homestead against incursion by scavengers in R.T. Thorne’s invigorating debut feature, 40 Acres. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) has seen some shit....
SO UNREAL Trailer Premiere: Announcing The Blu-ray Release From Altered Innocence
Today our friends at Altered Innocence have announced their release of Amanda Kramer's film, So Unreal. We are pleased to premiere the trailer for the release, check it out below. The work is a visual essay that "... explores...
BOYS GO TO JUPITER Trailer & Poster: The Slow-Fast Anxiety & Ennui of a Florida December
While there is a prevailing misconception, especially in North America, that animation is for kids, that luckily does not stop creators from making animated films by and for a grown-up audience. Especially in these strange days we live in, animation...
Fantasia 2025: Final Wave Announced. Tartakovsky's FIXED to Close, Guests Aplenty!
With two weeks until the fest opens on July 16th, Fantasia 2025 has dropped the full and final lineup on us and there is so much to be excited about! PRIMAL's Genndy Tartakovsky brings his latest animated feature FIXED to...
