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...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 26, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
Los Angeles’s Screamfest has announced its second wave lineup, so its full slate of chillers and thrillers for its October 8–17 run is now available for fright-fare fanatics to drool over. Following is the official press announcement. Screamfest® Horror Film Festival,...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 26, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
Nightmares Film Festival has unveiled its complete lineup for its 2024 edition! The fest, running in Columbus, Ohio from October 17–20, is chock full of tantalizing horror cinema selections and incredible events. Following is the official press announcement....
by Joseph Perry | Sep 24, 2024 | Movies, Reviews
Official synopsis: Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors — an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the souls of the living. Director Aaron Fradkin’s Beezel is...