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...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 11, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
Indera (Malaysia, 2024) Although Malaysian horror Indera is, according to the official film description, “set against the backdrop of the violent Memali Incident in 1985,” director Ming Jin Woo’s feature should work fine for viewers with little-to-no prior knowledge...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 11, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Whale Bones (Japan, 2023) Horror-adjacent Japanese feature Whale Bones delivers social commentary about the fickleness, loneliness, and desperation of life on social media apps, along with a good deal of mystery. Salaryman Mamiya (Motoki Ochiai) is unceremoniously...
by Joseph Perry | Jul 11, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movie News, Movies, News
Think you’ve seen it all, jaded fright-fare fanatics? You may want to rethink that, considering the upcoming premiere of the sci-fi horror shocker Black Eyed Susan, legendary underground filmmaker Scooter McCrae’s return to features after 21 years. The...