by Joseph Perry | Aug 27, 2025 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
NOSEEUMS (U.S., 2025) Official synopsis: When college student Ember is invited to join her white friends for a fun weekend at the country home of school Queen Bee Abigail, she finds the place unsettling and oddly familiar. Drawn to an unkempt grave in the backwoods,...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 26, 2025 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Radiance Films unveiled a double feature of brand new 4K restorations for Belgian auteur Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness and Malpertuis at London’s FrightFest film festival. DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (Belgium/France/West Germany, 1971) Official synopsis: Kümel...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 25, 2025 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
SELF HELP (U.S., 2025) Official synopsis: A young woman infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community after her mother becomes entangled with its enigmatic leader. Erik Bloomquist and Carson Bloomquist do it again — the pair cowrite and Erik directs —...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 25, 2025 | Film Festivals, Movies, News
With longtime favorites along with candidates for future cult classics, Dead Northern Film Festival boasts feature-length and short-film cinematic shockers for fright-fare fanatics of virtually every stripe. The fest runs from September 26-28 in York, U.K. and also...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 21, 2025 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
BLOOD SHINE (U.S., 2025) Official synopsis: Set in a desolate expanse of upstate New York, Blood Shine centers around Clara (Emily Bennett), a religious zealot who worships light in lonely, sacred rituals. When problematic horror director Brighton West (David Call)...
