by Joseph Perry | Apr 11, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
The Ceremony Is About to Begin (2024) Director Sean Nichols Lynch follows up his vampire comedy Red Snow (2021) with faux documentary horror The Ceremony Is About to Begin, which he cowrote with stars Chad Westbrook Hinds and John Laird. The film starts with...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 9, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller, Trailers
Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges; Canada, 2023) Pascal Plante’s French-language Canadian chiller Red Rooms deftly combines character study, psychological thriller, and courtroom drama. The film follows the obsession of two women with a serial killer suspect on trial for...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 3, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Following is a roundup of seven of the short films that screened at San Francisco’s Unnamed Footage Festival 2024, shot mostly in found footage or verité styles. Homebody Home surveillance cameras provide the footage for writer/director Andrew J. Paulsen’s Homebody,...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 3, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi
The Becomers (2024) Writer/director Zach Clark’s science-fiction comedy The Becomers is one of the more unique offerings in the subgenre of alien-body-snatchers cinema. It follows the travails of two genderless extraterrestrial lovers who have left their home...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 29, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant; Canada, 2023) What an absolute blast Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is! Director Ariane Louis-Seize’s French language coming-of-age vampire...