by Joseph Perry | Oct 7, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Movies, Reviews
Touched by Eternity Writer/director Mārcis Lācis serves up an intriguing, amusing feature with his Latvian philosophical horror dramedy Touched by Eternity. Fatso (Andris Keišs) longs for immortality, though why he desires that isn’t clearly evident, as he pretty much...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 30, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun (U.K., 2024) is an engrossing work that takes folk horror elements and sets them in an ambiguous time period — the story could be taking place in the past but a couple of items suggest that it could also be set in an...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 27, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
What Happened to Dorothy Bell? An interesting investigation of familial trauma and mental illness through a horror lens, What Happened to Dorothy Bell? uses a combination of vintage-style footage (not found footage, to clarify, although the approach is similar) and...