by Joseph Perry | Feb 25, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Somewhere in director Lars Janssen’s Underground (U.K., 2023) is a good horror short, but at feature-film length, the project feels heavily padded. Ella (Maaike Tol) is about to get married, and her friends Riley (Charlotte Dawn Potter, who cowrote the screenplay...
by Joseph Perry | Feb 22, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
After 15 goosebumps-inducing editions in Australia, A Night of Horror makes its debut run in the United States from March 1–3, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Supernatural shockers, bloody slashers, and creepy creature features are just part of the frightening lineup....
by Joseph Perry | Feb 22, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
THE FOREBODING: FRACTURED (U.K., 2024) In director Kemal Yildrim’s short The Foreboding: Fractured, four university friends go camping in the woods, which is never a good idea when it comes to horror movie characters. Neither is telling scary stories by the campfire,...
by Joseph Perry | Feb 21, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
Aficionados of the odd, the unusual, and the bizarre in cinema should find much to love in this, the full-program announcement for the 2024 edition of Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest, scheduled for March 13. Following is the official press announcement. MidWest...
by Joseph Perry | Feb 20, 2024 | Events, Film Festivals, Movies, News
Bryn Tilly, who ran Australia’s A Night of Horror Film Festival for four years, has announced a new fright-fare fest for that country: Dark Nights Film Fest. The inaugural edition is scheduled for October of this year, and the call for entries is now open. Following...