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YOUR MONSTER Review: Effortlessly Smashing Genres, With Top Shelf Performances

Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, and Meghann Fahy star in a film directed by Caroline Lindy.

MotelX 2024: SASQUATCH SUNSET, IN A VIOLENT NATURE And ODDITY Lead First Wave

Our friends at MotelX, the excellent genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, have annonced the first wave of titles for this year's festival, coming up this September.    Festival standouts Sasquatch Sunset, In A Violent Naure, Oddity, Cuckoo, Humanist Vampire Seeking...

ABIGAIL Review: Ballet Gets Bloody Entertaining

It's a juggling act to get an entertaining horror film - one that's fun, funny, yet still scary, with a good share of violence and gore, a decent story with snappy dialogue, and a monster that an audience can root...

Sundance 2024 Review: YOUR MONSTER, Genre-Bending Showcase for Director and Star

The words “bold,” “audacious,” and “daring” can be easily tossed around whenever a new-to-us filmmaker makes their feature-length debut, but in writer-director Caroline Lindy’s case, they’re more than applicable. They fall short of accurately describing Lindy’s deliriously entertaining, genre-bending first...

CARMEN Review: Opera Tale Reimagined As Immigration Drama

Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal sing and dance in choreographer-turned-director Benjamin Millepied's debut feature.

SCREAM VI Review: Meta-Slasher-Whodunit Offers Thrills, Chills, and Kills in Equal Measure

After a decade-long hiatus due to several factors, including lagging audience interest, the collapse of rights-holder The Weinstein Company, and a transfer of those rights to Spyglass Entertainment (among other factors), the Scream series, once a trilogy, now a franchise...

SCREAM VI Trailer: Another Familiar Face Returns in Sixth Chapter

Jeez Lousie, that's a hell of an opening, isn't it? Here is the new trailer for Scream VI, coming to theaters on March 10th! Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter....

Friday One Sheet: SCREAM VI

When your slasher franchise is getting long in the tooth, you can bring it to New York, or Europe, or Space.  The Scream franchise, with its sixth entry coming out in 2023, chose the first option. This is not terribly...

New SCREAM Trailer Proves Wes Craven's Vision Is Alive and Well

When it was announced that Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group were going to reboot Wes Craven’s lucrative Scream franchise, fans were immediately clamoring for original stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette to be included in the new...