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Overlook 2026: Second Wave Includes OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, NORMAL, And THE FURIOUS

The second wave of titles in this year's Overlook Film Festival were announced today, now completing the full lineup.    An all new section has been added to the festival program, Side Shows. Highlighting films that are not neccessarily horror...

FACES OF DEATH Red Band Trailer: Plus The Theatrical And Character Posters

For the first time we get a sense of how director Daniel Goldhaber and their co-writer, Isa Mazzei, mixed the mondo horror of the original flick into a narrative structure.

Canadian Screen Awards 2026: 40 ACRES, HONEY BUNCH, MILE END KICKS And NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE Lead Nominees

The Canadian Academy has announced the nominees for the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian genre cinema is represented very well in this year's awards.

STORM WARNING: Canadian Duo The Butler Brothers to Direct Nazi Vampire Horror Flick

The only thing worse than Nazis or Vampires, is the two combined.

Chattanooga Film Festival Second Wave Heralds the Return of Gregg Araki, Plus Joe Lynch and More

Festival season's in full swing and our friends at the Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 have some treats to share with the announcement of their first fun wave. If you've ever been, you know that the fest attracts an island of...

SATURNALIA: Giallo Thriller Homage Arrives on VOD This April

Miriam Basconi is shipped off to the prestigious Alstroemerias Academy after the mysterious death of her parents. Confronted with a cruel headmistress and disappearing students, Miriam must discover the truth of what's happening and uncovers a surreal world living inside the walls.

UP ALL NIGHT- BETWEEN THE SHEETS: BloodstreamTV Announces Video Podcast With Host Rhonda Shear

Our friends over at BloodstreamTV have announced a new podcast, Up All Night - Between the Sheets, hosted by a late-night icon from the 90s, Rhonda Shear.

FACES OF DEATH: New Film Faces "Controversy" Over In-Theater Poster Placement

Up front, we are leery of anything deemed "controversial" within the horror space these days.

SXSW 2026: WISHFUL THINKING, SUMMER 2000: THE X-CTRA STORY, and More Jury and Special Awards

The 2026 edition of the SXSW Film & TV Festival concluded yesterday and has now announced their Jury and Special Award winners. Graham Parkes' Wishful Thinking won the Narrative Feature Competition. As I noted in our curtain raiser: "Maya Hawkes...

I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU DIE: Horror Comedy Debuts on Streaming This April

When his slasher fiction novel manifests in real life, hack writer Rian Burman has to finish his story without getting his protagonist murdered by a seriously sadistic Stalker who will stop at nothing to have her.

Panic Fest 2026: Final Wave Announced, Incl. a Maori Gothic Revenge Horror And a Survival Horror Starring Randy Couture

The folks at Panic Fest in Kansas City, MO, have shared the final handful of films for this year's fourteenth edition of the festival.

SXSW 2026 Review: IMPOSTERS, A Missing Baby Brings Out A Powerful Performance From Jessica Rothe

What a year it has been for first time feature filmmakers at SXSW. Back in 2019, Caleb J. Phillips took home the Midnight Shorts Jury Award for his horror film “Other Side of the Box”, he returns to the fest...

Criterion in June 2026: DESPERATE LIVING, HAIRSPRAY, HIGH ART Lead Raft of Releases

Whoa! The Criterion Collection will unleash a raft of new releases in June 2026, led by two by John Waters -- Desperate Living and Hairspray -- along with Lisa Cholodenko's 90s queer romance High Art. The lead title in Criterion's...

Unnamed Footage Festival 2026: Final Wave Announced! Feat. International Folk Horror, Extreme Horror And a Long Unseen Gary Sherman Faux-doc

The final wave of film for this year's Unnnamed Footage Festival were announced heading into the weekend.    This wave includes a couple of folk horror tales from Thai and Ireland, a standout film from SXSW Sydney, and a long...

Overlook 2026: First Wave Announced, Feat. OBSESSION, LEVITICUS, HOKUM, And The Films of Larry Fessenden

We are, admittedly, a couple of days behind on this announcement of the first wave of titles for this year's tenth edition of the Overlook Film Festival. Shame on us.    But there is no shame to be had if...

THE SERPENT'S SKIN: Watch The Red Band Trailer For Supernatural Queer Romance Thriller

After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen's tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.

EDIE ARNOLD IS A LOSER Official Trailer: Starring Adi Madden Cabrera, McKenna Tuckett, and Cherish Rodriguez - World Premiere at SXSW

Timid dork Edie makes waves when she starts a punk band with her fellow "turds," becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her Catholic school while pissing off the hot girls, the nuns, and the horniest altar boy you've ever seen.

SUNDOWN: Production Wraps on Rebekah McKendry's New Horror Flick, Exec-Produced by G N' R's Slash

Rebekah McKendry (GLORIOUS) has wrapped production on their new horror film, SUNDOWN, which was executive-produced by Guns N ' Roses' Slash

IMPOSTERS Teaser: Caleb Phillips' Sci-fi Thriller Premieres at SXSW This Weekend

After a couple's baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she returned with isn't their son

HOKUM Official Trailer: Damian McCarthy's Next Scarefest is Coming

A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch.