Film Festivals Articles

Spoiler-Free Review: ODDITY (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival)

Horror films that deserve to be called truly macabre and that evoke a real sense of supernatural eeriness are a rarity, so I’m thrilled to state that writer/director Damian McCarthy’s incredible Oddity more than lives up to those standards. The...
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Spoiler-Free Review: “House of Sayuri” (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival)

If you watch J-horror, you have likely heard of director Kôji Shiraishi. He has 95 directing credits on IMDB, with his most well-known film to Western audiences perhaps being the 2016 phantom face-off Sadako vs. Kayako. With his latest feature...
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London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 Unveils Its Amazing Lineup

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 is already renowned for being the U.K.'s top horror film festival, but the fest's programmers have outdone themselves for this 25th edition. From the creepy to the comical, the festival has fear-fare fans of all...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: “Indera” and “Help, I’m Alien Pregnant” (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival)

Indera (Malaysia, 2024) Although Malaysian horror Indera is, according to the official film description, “set against the backdrop of the violent Memali Incident in 1985,” director Ming Jin Woo’s feature should work fine for viewers with...
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