by Joseph Perry | Feb 13, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films, Thriller
Following are reviews of four of the offerings that screened as part of the 2024 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s Folk Horror short-film block. Nian Short chiller Nian (U.S., 2023), finds a Chinese American schoolgirl (Lauren Mei in a delightful performance)...
by Joseph Perry | Jan 28, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
I’m a very hard sell on new zombie movies. In a subgenre of horror films that I personally feel is growing ever weaker on originality, I’m open minded, however, in finding new discoveries with a unique take on things. Director Thea Hvistendahl’s Norwegian feature...
by Joseph Perry | Jan 27, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Writer/director Jon Bell combines post-pregnancy horror with social commentary in his Australian feature The Moogai, the 2024 expansion of his 2021 short film. The result is a mixed bag, as Bell addresses the tragic aspect of Australia’s infamous “Stolen Generations”...
