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Our Sinister Seven: A Septet of Fantasia 2025 Films That Have Our Attention (Part One)

Fantasia International Film Festival kicks off in mere days, running from July 16–August 3 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The fest is renowned for its wide array of quality genre films, from horror to science fiction to animation to quirky comedies...

Popcorn Frights Announces Its First Wave of Programming For 2025 Edition

Florida’s Popcorn Frights is famous for presenting the finest fear-fare cinema to Florida every summer, and this year's offerings are no exception — and this is only the first wave announcement! The festival runs from August 7–17, and if you can’t...

Cult-themed Chiller THE OBSERVANCE Captures Awards at International Horror Hotel Film Festival

Psychological thriller The Observance, from Augusta-based production company Beyond Casual Media, won two awards at the 14th Annual International Horror Hotel Film Festival: Best Suspense Thriller in the Feature category and Best Actor for Alec...

Spoiler-Free Review: THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN (Tribeca Festival 2025)

Official Tribeca synopsis, written by Matt Barone: The history of New York filmmaking has several lauded names that instantly come to mind: Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Spike Lee, among others. In the specific world of NYC genre filmmaking,...

Practical Effects Horror ‘Blood Shine’ Scores New Poster Ahead of Festival Run

Aug 6, 2025 | Film Festivals, Movies, News

The married filmmaking duo Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks have just unveiled the striking new poster art for their...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: TOUCH ME and BUFFET INFINITY (Fantasia 2025)

Aug 4, 2025 | Film Festivals, Horror Comedy, Reviews, Sci-Fi

TOUCH ME (U.S., 2025) From the official Fantasia press synopsis: From the director of Hypochondriac comes a singular...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: MOTHER OF FLIES and INFLUENCERS (Fantasia 2025)

Jul 31, 2025 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews

MOTHER OF FLIES (U.S., 2025) Official synopsis: When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from...

Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “Blind Cop 2” and “Keratyna”

Apr 15, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Blind Cop 2 (2024) A sequel to a film that doesn’t exist, director Alec Bonk’s Blind Cop 2 follows the tropes of ...

Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Cereal,” “The Curse of the Velvet Vampire,” “We Joined a Cult,” “Up on the Housetop,” “Strange Creatures,” “Howl at the Dead”

Apr 12, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Short Films

Following is a roundup of six of the short-film shockers that screened at this year’s edition of New Orlean’s Overlook...

Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Review: “Ghost Game” (2024)

Apr 12, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews

Director Jill Gevargizian’s sophomore feature Ghost Game is an effective offering that uses home invasion in a unique...

Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “The Ceremony Is About to Begin” and “The Hyperborean”

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...

Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “Red Rooms” and “Dead Mail” (Overlook Film Festival)

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...

Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Homebody,” “Extreme Gravity,” “Kelly,” “Beholder,” “Red Leather, Yellow Leather,” “Turtle?”, “What I Remember” (Unnamed Footage Festival)

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,...

Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “The Becomers” and “Omen” (Boston Underground Film Festival 2024)

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