by Joseph Perry | Mar 26, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
Sleep (South Korea, 2023) A sleepwalking man becomes a danger to his family in writer/director Jason Yu’s eerie feature Sleep. HyunSu (Lee SunKyun) and SooJin (Jung YuMi) are a married couple expecting their first child. HyunSu begins having bouts of somnambulism that...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 22, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
Apotemnofilia The titular condition is the desire of amputation for a healthy limb, and writer/director Jano Pita’s Spanish horror short Apotemnofilia finds actress Clara (Lucía Azcoitía) dealing with that as her highly anticipated post-pregnancy comeback play is...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 18, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi
Director Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom (Le régne animal; France and Belgium, 2023) tackles the well-tread science fiction concept of “Can mutants and humans get along?” previously explored in X-Men comics and movies, and films such as 2018’s Freaks. Although not...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 15, 2024 | Books, Comic Books/Graphic Novels, News
Author Richard T. Wilson, whose Halloween Girl graphic novel series Horror Fuel reviewed here and here, is back with an expansion of the universe from that series called Hemlock Ave. The new anthology sounds as intriguing as its predecessor. Following is the official...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 14, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
Writer/director Annick Blank’s French-language Canadian thriller Hunting Daze blends harshly realistic scenarios with dizzying drug-trip sequences. The result is a fascinating, often disturbing look at toxic masculinity. Sex worker Nina (Nahéma Ricci), after...
