Tag: thriller
New York 2021 Review: Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Expectations Not Met
But there have been many famous screen adaptations of the Shakespeare's play before. The first question anyone would naturally ask is, is another adaptation of the famous Scottish play really necessary?
DEAD & BEAUTIFUL Trailer, Coming to Shudder in November
In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings (Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Philip Juan, Anechka Marchenko) are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search...
Fantastic Fest 2021: Casey Tebo's BLACK FRIDAY Acquired by Screen Media, Set for November Release
The holiday season has come early for Black Friday director Casey Tebo and writer/executive producer Andy Greskoviak. According to Variety, their highly anticipated horror venture (starring genre icons, Bruce Campbell and Devon Sawa) has been acquired by Screen Media. This...
FIN Atlantic 2021 Review: TITANE, Extreme Body Pleasure and Pain
Carrie Fisher once described her body as a bag to carry her brain around. There's a book about women's health entitled 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'. We often talk about of our bodies as being separate from us, and yet they are...
IMPLANTED Exclusive Clip: Your Vitals Are Currently Stable
Sarah, a struggling young woman living in Brooklyn, agrees to volunteer as an experimental test subject for a pharmaceutical company called Dynamic Health Cure and to be implanted with the LEXX nanochip. Sarah hopes that the money received for her...
Review: CRY MACHO, Clint Eastwood's Ballad of Forgotten Cowboys and Lost Boys
Apparently, over three decades ago, Cry Macho crossed Clint Eastwood’s desk. He decided to pass on it because at the time, he felt he was too young to properly tell the story of an old cowboy whose best days are...
Toronto 2021 Review: SALOUM, A Spirited Tale of Revenge on the Senegal Delta
The Saloum Delta in Senegal is a land of cannibal myths and cursed kings. Nowhere is this more true than in Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot's supernatural skinwalker of a film that brings West African mythology to the criminal getaway...
WITCH HUNT Official Trailer: In Theaters, On Demand and Digital on October 1st
In a modern America where magic is real and witches are persecuted by US authorities, teenager Claire and her family are part of an intricate network that helps these women escape across the border to seek asylum in Mexico. However,...
Mammoth Lakes 2021 Line-Up Features ULTRASOUND, MAN UNDER TABLE And WHAT JOSIAH SAW
The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival announced their lineup for this year's in-person film festival, happening at the end of September. Of particular notice are some films that we have enjoyed over the past year. Rob Schroeder's Ultrasound is picking...
Review: MOSQUITO STATE, The Great Recession Meets Cronenbergian Body Horror
Beau Knapp and Charlotte Vega star in a horror thriller, directed by Filip Jan Rymsza, now streaming on Shudder.
Review: CANDYMAN, Tell Everyone
Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) should be about to hit the big-time in the art world. Having had his first solo show straight of of art school, he's found he's hit a creative wall. Pressured to produce something new, something that...
Fantasia 2021 Review: The Terrifying Tech of #BLUE_WHALE
Anna Zaytseva's heart-pounding teen slasher #Blue_Whale just had its world at Fantasia 2021, and WOW. I don't really know who she is yet, but I already hope to see more from her after watching this debut. There's not an ounce of...
SUPERHOST Trailer: Brandon Christensen's Horror Coming to Shudder in September
Yesterday Shudder announced that they will release Brandon Christensen's horror flick Superhost on the streaming service across all their territories on September 2nd. Superhost will have its world premiere at Popcorn Frights, the Florida based genre festival, tomorrow night. ...
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND: Official Trailer World Premiere. Cage, Boutella, Moseley, Sakaguchi And The Apocalypse!
Are you ready for this? You sure? RLJE Films will release Sono Sion's Prisoners of the Ghostland in theaters and on VOD and Digital on September 17th. Today is world premiere day for the trailer and it simply looks...
Fantasia 2021 Review: Blockbuster SEOBOK Spotlights the God Complex in Science
Directed and written by Lee Yong-ju, (Posessed, Architecture 101) South Korean blockbuster Seobok was one of those festival films that I happened upon and loved. Thanks, Fantasia (who has the Canadian premiere)! I'm not sure what's going on in South Korea's...
BLEED WITH ME: Raven Banner Releases New Poster For Canadian Release
Amelia Moses' horror flick, Bleed With Me, is coming home to Canada next week thanks thanks to our friends at Raven Banner Releasing. You will find it on all digital platforms starting on August 10th. Raven Banner has unveiled...
Neuchâtel 2021 Review: TIDES (aka. THE COLONY)
This year the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival had a treat for the locals programmed in at the end: the International première of Swiss film-maker Tim Fehlbaum's apocalyptic science fiction action drama Tides (soon to be released state-side as The...
THE NIGHT HOUSE Official Trailer Gets Straight to The Scares
David Bruckner's horror flick The Night House is coming to cinemas on August 20th, from Searchlight Pictures. It is also part of the official selection of the Fantasia Film Festival which begins next week. Reeling from the unexpected death...
Review: SETTLERS, Wherever We Go, There We Are
Uniquely American, the Western genre has changed radically over the last century, from nationalistic, myth-building propaganda to revisionist self-critique, specifically of the colonialist narrative that centered white Europeans and left indigenous peoples, in the margins at best or primitive, violent...
Review: THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR, A Decent Debut Chiller
Young Bobby and his best friend, Kevin, are abducted on their way to their baseball game. When Bobby breaks out of the trunk of the car he's trapped in he sees that they've been taken to a home in the...
