Dead Bloom (U.S., 2026) Official Synopsis A struggling Black family settles on the poisoned land. Decay, madness, and...
Film Festivals Articles
Spoiler-Free Review: Hangashore (Calgary Underground Film Festival)
Official Synopsis Haunted by nightmares and visions, an artist chases the ghost of her father to the remote coast of...
Spoiler-Free Review: Demonetize (Panic Fest)
Official Synopsis Out-of-work television ghost hunters discover the key to getting their jobs back — and proving...
Watch an Exclusive Clip from ‘In Our Blood’ Ahead of Its Fantasia Premiere
The 2024 Fantasia Film Festival is approaching. We have an exclusive new clip from the psychological thriller In Our...
Spoiler-Free Reviews: “Listen Carefully” and “Princeton’s in the Mix” (Dances with Films 2024)
Listen Carefully (U.S., 2024) Writer/director/star Ryan Barton-Grimley’s feature Listen Carefully follows a harrowing...
Chattanooga Film Festival Offers a Hybrid Eleventh Edition This Month
Chattanooga Film Festival (https://www.chattfilmfest.org/) celebrates its 11th edition with a hybrid edition, so you...
Spoiler-Free Reviews: “They’re Here” and “The Hongfu Hotel” (Tribeca Festival 2024)
They’re Here (U.S., 2024) Codirectors Daniel Claridge and Pacho Velez offer an unusual, thoroughly captivating take on...
Spoiler-Free Reviews: “Beacon” and “A Family Guide to Hunting” (Tribeca Festival 2024)
Beacon (U.S., 2024) Last year, Tribeca gave the world a top-notch tale of two strangers, a man and a woman, stuck in...
Inaugural Amazing Fantasy Fest Announces Its First Wave
From superstitions to slashers to psychological horror and beyond, the first wave announcement for Buffalo, New York's...
Spoiler-Free Reviews: “The Weekend” and “Untitled Tim Burton Docuseries” (Tribeca)
The Weekend (Nigeria, 2024) Good foreign fright-fare gives viewers culturally different spins on subgenres. Daniel...
Spoiler-Free Reviews: “The Devil’s Bath” and “Hunters on a White Field” (Tribeca)
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad; Austria/Germany, 2024) Cowriters/codirectors Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala are...
Spoiler-Free Review: “Restless” (Tribeca)
Writer/director Jed Hart’s debut feature Restless (U.K., 2024) is a welcome, solid entry in the neighbors-from-Hell...