by Joseph Perry | Jul 21, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, K-Horror, Movies, Reviews
Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary South Korea’s ultracompetitive education system is world-renowned. Students spend years studying for an exam so important that it has the potential to determine their entire future. Imagine being such a hopeless...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 18, 2024 | Documentaries, Events, Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Movies, News, Thriller
Whether you’re into horror, thrillers, science fiction, or other genre cinema, Popcorn Frights — Florida’s premiere film festival destination for such fare — has something for you. Running August 8–18, 2024, with both in-person and virtual...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 17, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
Horror films that deserve to be called truly macabre and that evoke a real sense of supernatural eeriness are a rarity, so I’m thrilled to state that writer/director Damian McCarthy’s incredible Oddity more than lives up to those standards. The Irish shocker recalls...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 15, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
If you watch J-horror, you have likely heard of director Kôji Shiraishi. He has 95 directing credits on IMDB, with his most well-known film to Western audiences perhaps being the 2016 phantom face-off Sadako vs. Kayako. With his latest feature House of Sayuri (AKA...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 12, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 is already renowned for being the U.K.’s top horror film festival, but the fest’s programmers have outdone themselves for this 25th edition. From the creepy to the comical, the festival has fear-fare fans of all stripes...
