Even if you don't know a word of Spanish, "vampiro" probably jumped out at you in the title, didn't it? Me, too! The trailer touches all the bases, as we say in the U.S., for religious horror, complete with crucifixes,...
My Portuguese language skills are rusty (OK, they are non-existent), but the visuals and mood in new TV spots for Brazilian mystery Albatroz caught my eye, sending me back to the first trailer, which actually dropped about two weeks ago....
The first teaser and a selection of images were passed along to us today for Daniel de la Vega’s new film Punto Muerto (Dead End). Luis Penafiel is a writer who has just finished a novel that presents the...
A new extreme body horror anthology called Ill was announced the other day. We caught wind of it when my friend Lucio A. Rojas, director of last year's extreme horror offering Trauma, sent me the announcement. After I harranged him...
If you live in the UK and are looking for more ways to support female filmmakers, especially female genre filmmakers, then you need to check out We Are The Weirdos, a film program created by the feminist film collective The...
Success looks good on Tigers Are Not Afraid's Issa Lopez. Her supernatural horror film won a bounty of awards and our collective hearts as it ruled the festival circuit last year. Not just our collective hearts but also got the...
In its 19th edition, Film Comment Selects provides a showcase for various films from around the world, their contribution to cinema deemed important and vital by Film Comment Magazine's esteemed editors. This year's lineup includes Steven Soderbergh's High Flying Bird,...
Our friends at Uncork'd Entertainment are releasing Guto Parente's satirical horror flick The Cannibal Club (O CLUBE DOS CANIBAIS) in North American cinemas on March 1st, then On Demand on March 5th. While it is sadly not a film...
A new Spanish language co-production between Europe and Latin America is adapting Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief into a series format, titled Atrapa a un Ladron. It is always of some interest to see how international productions...
The call went out before this past weekend, Frontières' co-production market and buyers showcase are now accepting submissions. The Buyers Showcase, a presentation of works-in-progress films, happens during the Cannes Film Festival in France. The always popular co-production market,...
Almost five years after the (failed) comedy El crimen del Cácaro Gumaro, Mexican filmmaker Emilio Portes returns to the big screen with Belzebuth, a film that, unlike his previous work, soon reveals itself as something completely serious. Not for nothing...
At the end of the month in Berlin, Germany our friends at the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival will be hosting their fourth edition. Over the weekend the festival will host seven feature films screenings including hits like CAM, Tigers...
After watching 133 new releases over the past 12 months, it’s certainly time to chime in, for what it’s worth, with my list of personal favorites. I live in Mexico City, therefore several 2017 titles are here. On the other...
Here's our favorite films of 2018, as voted on by more than 20 of our contributing writers, who collectively picked 114 films as their favorites. 1. Roma 2. The Favourite 3 (tie). BlacKkKlansman / You Were Never Really Here 5....
I have sat in and reported on Works in Progress sessions at film festivals. However, to date any of these sessions that I have attended have only shown snippets and clips of finished footage. I have never been able to...
Among the Criterion Collection's home video offerings in March 2019, the most familiar to mainstream audiences may be I Wanna Hold Your Hand, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. As a devotee of 70s cinema...
At Blood Window one of the common questions groups were asked in the meetings that followed the pitches was, have they considered turning their idea into a serial series? Ah yes, televised serial programming, more buzz words I picked up...
On Friday morning the award ceremony was held for the Ventana Sur film market. Of special interest to us at Screen Anarchy were the winners of the awards for the Blood Window program, the genre focused co-production program of VS. ...
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