by Joseph Perry | Jul 22, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
The Cursed Land Thai horror The Cursed Land is an ambitious work that perhaps takes on too much in its attempt to deliver a fear-fare tale involving djinn while addressing issues involving the largely Muslim Malay community in Thailand. Mit (Ananda Everingham) is...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 22, 2024 | Film Festivals, K-Horror, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
The Unrighteous Pseudoreligious cults are prevalent in some Asian countries. Shin’ichirô Ueda took a humorous approach at exposing the ways that such cults can sway people into their fold with his 2019 Japanese comedy Special Actors, and now Korean...
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...
