by Joseph Perry | Jun 12, 2024 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
The Weekend (Nigeria, 2024) Good foreign fright-fare gives viewers culturally different spins on subgenres. Daniel Oriahi’s The Weekend certainly delivers the local-flavor goods and the chills with its Nigerian take on in-laws-from-hell eeriness. Engaged couple Nikya...
by Joseph Perry | Jun 11, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad; Austria/Germany, 2024) Cowriters/codirectors Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala are well known for crafting two of the grimmest horror features of the past 10 years, Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh, 2014) and The Lodge (2019). With...
by Joseph Perry | Jun 10, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
Writer/director Jed Hart’s debut feature Restless (U.K., 2024) is a welcome, solid entry in the neighbors-from-Hell genre-film category, this one being a thriller with darkly comic elements. Although its main antagonist belongs to the uniquely British group known as...
