Foreign Articles

Film Review: Good Boy (Beyond Fest)

About as cautionary a fable as you can have for both meeting strangers through online dating apps and not following first impressions, writer/director Viljar Bøe’s Norwegian chiller Good Boy (2022) is a dark journey, indeed. Part-time university...

Movie Reviews: Mother Superior, Last Seen, and The Businessman (SLASH Film Festival)

Mother Superior (2022) Writer/director Marie Alice Wolfszahn’s Austrian horror thriller Mother Superior, set in 1975, finds anesthesiste-in-training Sigrun (Isabella Hӓndler) hired on as a nurse for elderly Baroness Heidenreich (Inge Maux). The...

Lund Fantastic 2022: Sweden’s Premiere Genre Film Festival Reveals Its First Wave

Sweden’s Lund Fantastic Film Festival celebrates its 28th edition from October 27–November 5, 2022 with another mind-boggling array of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and related genre films. The fest has announced its first wave of titles, which...

Movie Reviews: “The Elderly” and “Disappear Completely” (Fantastic Fest)

The Elderly Codirectors Raúl Cerezo and Fernando Gonzáles Gómez wowed festival audiences earlier this year with their shocker The Passenger, and now the duo is back with another fine slice of fright-fare cinema, The Elderly (Spain, 2022). Manuel...