Tag: mystery
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS Review: Finding Acceptable Truth
Directed by Wei Shujun, the Chinese murder mystery questions what is considered truth in our complicated modern society.
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...
RED ROOMS Trailer: Pascal Plante's Thriller Arrives in U.S. Theaters This September
A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial. Pascal Plante's thriller, Red Rooms, starts its U.S. theatrical release on Friday, September 6th in New York at the IFC Center. The official trailer was just released for it, check...
EVIL DEAD RISE Director Lee Cronin Prepping New Movie With Atomic Monster, Blumhouse And New Line
Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin has set their new horror flick with Atomic Robot, Blumhouse and New Line.
HANDLING THE UNDEAD Interview: Director Thea Hvistendahl
The dramatic horror film Handling The Undead goes into a wider release this coming Friday. We had the opportunity to speak with the director and co-writer, Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl about their debut feature film. We talk about themes...
COMA Review: Dealing with Lockdown, An Isolated Fever Dream
Bertrand Bonello wrote and directed; Louise Labeque and Julia Faure star.
HANDLING THE UNDEAD: Official Trailer And Poster Arrive, Exclusive Release Starts May 31st
Ooh, we're looking forward to this one, folks. The film adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel by the same name, Handling The Undead, is coming soon from Neon and it looks to be ready to seriously tug on our decaying...
THE KING TIDE Review: The Fable of a Miracle Gone Wrong
Living in a harsh landscape, somewhat apart and isolated, means you make certain choices about how much assistance you will receive, and how much protection you will offer your community. It also means that legends can grow up around people...
Shudder in May: NIGHTWATCH: DEMONS ARE FOREVER, STOPMOTION And a Lot of TOXIC AVENGER Movies
We believe it is safe to say that Spring is finally here in North America. Relatively safe. Pretty sure it is safe. Not only will April showers bring May flowers but May also sees the arrival of the new...
Friday One Sheet: THE ROOSTER
This dark, moody and minimalist key art from Australian design house Barlow.Agency injects some metaphor and iconography into Mark Leonard Winter's feature film debut, The Rooster. We have featured the design work of Timothy Barlow's company a few years ago for...
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DEAD MAIL: Trailer And Key Art Posted Before World Premiere at SXSW
An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.
SXSW 2024 Preview: Genre Film Fans, Get Excited About This Dazzling Dozen
It must be spring, because in just a couple of days thousands of tastemakers will descend upon Austin, Texas, for the SXSW Film & TV Festival. Providing a home for everything from big budget Hollywood premieres like The Fall Guy...
2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BLACKBERRY, HUMANIST VAMPIRE, And INFINITY POOL Rack up Massive Nominations
I'm a bad Canadian. Technically, I'm a bad Canadian resident, but that's a story for another day. I'm a bad Canadian because until today I've not really given much attention to the Canadian Screen Awards. I can always say that...
MONOLITH Clip: "I Believe my Life is in Danger"
While trying to salvage her career, a disgraced journalist begins investigating a strange conspiracy theory. But as the trail leads uncomfortably close to home, she is left to grapple with the lies at the heart of her own story. ...
Rotterdam 2024 Review: WITTE WIEVEN (HERESY) Brings A Television Movie To The Cinema
Didier Konings' Witte Wieven (or Heresy, for international markets) is a very short feature film, debuting at the IFFR, but made as part of a series of television horror films, presented by the famous Dutch filmmaker Martin Koolhoven. Koolhoven, who...
MONOLITH: Official Trailer and Key Art Drop for Sci-fi Thriller, Coming This February
Lily Sullivan stars in Matt Vesely's sci-fi thriller, in theaters and digital on February 16, 2024, from Well GO USA.
Boutique Startup Celluloid Dreams Brings Giallo THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS to Blu-ray And 4K UHD
Boutique startup announces its debut release, bringing Giuliano Carnimeo's beloved Giallo to 4K UHD for the first time
FOUNDERS DAY Official Trailer: Politically Charged Slasher Out in January
A series of ominous murders rocks a small town just days before a heated mayoral election. As accusations fly and the threat of a masked killer darkens every corner, residents must race against time to uncover the truth.
IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE Review: A Slasher For the Holidays
The Hallmark Channel has turned the holiday season – specifically, the months-long Christmas season – into an incredibly lucrative all-year affair. Numbers-wise, Lifetime Channel isn’t too far behind. Both rely on formulaic plots, inexpensive, fungible talent on both sides of...
Toronto 2023 Review: POOLMAN, An Earnest if Misguided Comedy-Neo-Noir
A few years ago, I was taking an Uber back to my airbnb in Los Angeles; the driver, it turns out, was something of a conspiracy theorist. At first he was just telling me about the politics of the city,...
