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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: HOKUM, Be Very Afraid Of Damian McCarthy's Latest

In 2024 Damian McCarthy lit up the horror world with his quietly terrifying Oddity, a film I reviewed for its SXSW world premiere, and while it was topping year end horror lists left and right, I was a bit less...

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.

SXSW 2026 Curtain Raiser: 21 Films To Get Excited About At This Year's Festival

Spring has nearly sprung, and in the film world that means that SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally upon us! 2026 marks the festival's 40th edition, and we've got a bumper crop of films to choose from. Screen Anarchy...

Sundance 2026 Review: THE WEIGHT, Ethan Hawke Leads Period Crime-Drama

Russell Crowe also stars in director Padraic McKinley's crime drama.

Sundance 2025 Review: BUNNYLOVR, Gen Z Cam-Girl Faces Existential Crisis

Pace everyone’s favorite Greek philosopher, Socrates, if the unexamined life isn’t worth living, then the unexamined cam life — as in cam-girl life — is probably a close second or even a distant third.   That lack of self-exploration, of...

Sundance 2024 Review: HIT MAN, Richard Linklater Directs Glen Powell in a Morally Relativistic Comedy-Drama

To hear Glen Powell tell the story, he decided to become an actor and writer on Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation. It wasn’t his first or second role. It was his third. A not particularly significant part, it was more...