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Never separate a mother from her child. Sara is torn away from her daughter Jenny in the opening minutes of Feed the Light, a new film by Swedish director Henrik Möller that teeters between bad dreams and outright nightmares. Still...

Welcome back to The Stack! Dave Canfield here comin' at ya with more home entertainment goodness. First up from the good folks at Kino Lorber is the nearly forgotten Carrie (1976) knock-off Jennifer (1978), which even used the tag line, "...makes...

"We're under the volcano," said filmmaker Richard Stanley, referring to the novel by Malcolm Lowry, adapted for the screen by John Huston in 1984, and the location of the Morbido Film Festival in 2014. The tops of volcanoes were enshrouded...

Antonio Tublen's acclaimed scifi drama LFO is available now of DVD, VOD and digital platforms from Dark Sky Films and we've got an exclusive clip to share with you all!Robert (Patrik Karlson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window...

The Lund International Fantastic Film Festival will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year! That is a lot of time giving the folks in Lund, Sweden a good dose of international fantastic cinema each year. It's once again time for Scandinavia's leading...

Armed with a tiny budget and a whole lot of talent, Swedish director Henrik Moller has made himself quite a splash with his debut feature, winning Best Film at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. Sara takes a job as a...

For the past couple years at Fantastic Fest I have taken to getting international directors drunk and making them review their own films. One such director to succumb to my boozie entreaties at the 2013 edition of the festival was...

Karate ! Yab boom ! Now you shall hear. Bergman, step aside. Now it's my turn . or ... ? LFO is crazy good . yup , so it . do you know it is synthezisers in it? So damn...

I love minor keys, and the new Swedish film LFO is filled with them. Deftly casting a spell with low-frequency hums, surging synthesizers, and enigmatic characters, it's immediately captivating, even though the setting is not immediately apparent. Initially it reminded...

First off, the Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival is only in its second year but by golly would any established film festival be happy to have a superb poster like theirs. Golly, that is purdy. Second, it also boasts a...

You hear that high-pitched squealing, like a pig in heat? Just to warn you: that's the sound I make when I'm really, really excited. The first wave of titles for North America's biggest genre festival has now been unveiled, featuring...

Sweden's Antonio Tublen wants to control your mind, and he has the exact tools to do it. It all comes down to sound, you see, specific frequencies that make the human mind incredibly open to suggestion. It's a fearsome power,...

It was a few years back that Swedish director Antonio Tublen was last in these pages, his quirky comedy Original - co-directed with Alexander Brondstedt - charming with a clever trailer and winning acclaim on a healthy international festival run...