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Film Festivals Articles
Spoiler-Free Reviews: SELF HELP and THE HAUNTED FOREST (FrightFest 2025)
SELF HELP (U.S., 2025) Official synopsis: A young woman infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community...
York, U.K.’s Dead Northern Film Festival Rises Again in September
With longtime favorites along with candidates for future cult classics, Dead Northern Film Festival boasts...
Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “The Buildout” and “Killington”
The Buildout (2024) Aficionados of enigmatic cinema and high strangeness should find plenty to like about...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Reveals Poster and Change of Venue for Its 25th Anniversary
London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, the U.K.’s premiere horror and genre-film festival, celebrates its 25th anniversary...
Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Bookworm,” “Hevel,” “Souling,” “Dark Mommy,” “Spooky Crew,” “I Could Just Die, and That Would Be Alright” (Overlook Film Festival)
Following is a capsule review roundup of six of the short-film shockers that screened at this year’s edition of New...
Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “Blind Cop 2” and “Keratyna”
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”
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)
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”
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)
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)
Following is a roundup of seven of the short films that screened at San Francisco’s Unnamed Footage Festival 2024,...