by Joseph Perry | Jun 18, 2024 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
They’re Here (U.S., 2024) Codirectors Daniel Claridge and Pacho Velez offer an unusual, thoroughly captivating take on the UFO experiencer phenomenon in their documentary They’re Here. The filmmakers focus on a small group of New Yorkers who claim to have had close...
by Joseph Perry | Jun 18, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Short Films, Thriller
Beacon (U.S., 2024) Last year, Tribeca gave the world a top-notch tale of two strangers, a man and a woman, stuck in an isolated location with a suspenseful mystery about who might be dangerous to the other with You’ll Never Find Me. This year, the fest serves up...
by Joseph Perry | Jun 17, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
From superstitions to slashers to psychological horror and beyond, the first wave announcement for Buffalo, New York’s new Amazing Fantasy Fest this September offers tantalizing genre-film fare galore. Following is the official press announcement. Gregory...
by Joseph Perry | Jun 12, 2024 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
The Weekend (Nigeria, 2024) Good foreign fright-fare gives viewers culturally different spins on subgenres. Daniel Oriahi’s The Weekend certainly delivers the local-flavor goods and the chills with its Nigerian take on in-laws-from-hell eeriness. Engaged couple Nikya...
by Joseph Perry | Jun 11, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad; Austria/Germany, 2024) Cowriters/codirectors Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala are well known for crafting two of the grimmest horror features of the past 10 years, Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh, 2014) and The Lodge (2019). With...
