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Crazy Lips (Japan, 2000) Official synopsis Satomi and her family are hounded by the press when her brother is accused of a vicious killing spree. Desperate to prove his innocence, Satomi goes to a psychic for help. The price the psychic asks is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. Review I feel that it’s important to note up front that director Hirohisa Sasaki’s Crazy Lips has no less than four rape scenes, with one involving necrophilia. And that’s not all of the depravity on display, by a longshot. If you are still reading, you may well be either desensitized or curious enough to give this film a watch. The screenplay was written by Hiroshi Takahashi, who also penned Ringu and Ringu sequels, and recently wrote and directed The House of the Serpent (2023). As great and influential as Ringu is, Crazy Lips feels like Takahashi just wanted to
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Whether fear-fare fanatics are in the mood for classics or cutting-edge new features, Dead And SudBuried Horror Film Festival (Sudbury, Suffolk, U.K.) has pretty much everyone covered. This year’s edition runs from October 22–25, 2026. Following is the official press announcement. The Dead And SudBuried Horror Film Festival returns to the sleepy market town of Sudbury, Suffolk for its 10th Anniversary edition, expanding to four days and welcoming movies from all over the world, celebrating new and classic horror movies! The terrifying event returns over from Thursday 22nd October to 25th October with another horror packed schedule featuring 11 brand new festival circuit features, 11 classic movies and 22 new horror shorts alongside Director/Cast Q&A’s, food trucks, merchandise and much more over four long, scary days. The Dead And SudBuried Horrorthon began life in 2016 in Suffolk in the small market town of Sudbury as a celebration of classic horror movies, screening seven classics over a single day in the
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You Are the Film (Japan, 2026) Official Tubi FrightFest Synopsis from https://frightfest.co.uk/LondoN2026/you-are-the-film.html The long-awaited directorial debut of Makoto Ueda, writer of BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES and RIVER. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO goes wacky Sci-Fi as Shimokitazawa native playwright Madoka and Sangenjaya-based band member Kazuma separately go and see a movie at the Tollywood independent cinema. But in the film, they each see the other person on screen — Madoka is in the film Kazuma is watching, and vice versa. In this impossible multiverse, incidents occur within each other’s stories as both communicate through the screen and work hard to solve the problems that arise in each other’s narratives. Review You Are the Film writer/director Makoto Ueda wrote the screenplays for the excellent time loop science-fiction comedies Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River. If you have seen either of those films, you can expect that you will be in for a humorous, touching treat of a genre feature
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Official synopsis Desperate to save their possessed son, a fractured couple turns to a cursed Pagan device—unleashing a greater evil that threatens their sanity, their marriage, and their souls. Review Director Steven Fierberg’s The Spirit Lock (U.K., 2026) combines folk horror and possession horror with the battling of personal demons in an impressive slice of cinematic fear fare. The screenplay by Justin Stanley and Mark Jonathan Stanley is wonderfully crafted, and the cast members all check in with fine performances. Karl Mellor (Joe Anderson) is desperate enough to save his son Kit (Stefanos Paraskevopoulus) from what he fears is a demonic possession that he takes on the heavy responsibility of acquiring the titular pagan object. This being a horror film, obviously that will prove to have consequences. He tries to keep his tactics away from his wife Vanessa (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi), but naturally that can only last so long. Karl is frustrated that professionals such as man of the cloth Father
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Unearthed Films is bringing director Doug Roos’ 2023 Japanese monster movie Bakemono to US home video with its first-ever wide-release Blu-ray edition this September. Featuring 100% practical special effects, creature design, and gore, the film offers a blood-soaked trip into body horror and classic monster cinema. An Apartment Full of Victims and a Ghastly Resident […]
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Buenos Aries is absolutely up to it’s ass in flesh-eating ghouls. Such is the premise of 2024’s Portraits of the Apocalypse, a multi-tale fright flick that examines the apocalyptic event from a multitude of perspectives. Directors Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello each take turns telling stories of a world gone mad, and things […]
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If your weekend plans involve looking for something extraordinarily bloody, wildly unhinged, and fast-paced, director Yeon Sang-ho has you covered. The workaholic maestro behind Train to Busan and Peninsula doesn’t believe in taking intermissions. Fresh off the release of The Ugly, Yeon is jumping right back into apocalyptic K-Horror. But if you think you know what a zombie outbreak looks like, Colony is here to completely rewrite the story. It swaps clumsy, lumbering ghouls for eerie, hive-like synchronization and speed. Biohazard Disasters The story wastes zero time plunging into high-octane corporate terror. Biologist Se-jeong (Jun Ji-hyun) is stuck inside a sleek corporate skyscraper for a routine job presentation, accompanied by her ex-husband Gyu-seong (Go Soo). Things quickly derail when another biologist, Young-cheol (Koo Kyo-hwan), frantically calls the police to blow the whistle on a bioterror experiment. However, before anyone can digest the claim, Young-cheol stabs the company’s CEO with a syringe. This instantly triggers a grotesque zombie transformation. Within seconds,
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Directed by Rec. Revana and written by Cahangir Suleymanov, the official trailer for Obitus has arrived. Hailing from Azerbaijan, which borders Russia, this bleak English-language survival thriller blends atmospheric regional isolation with stomach-churning parasitic terror. The newly released footage offers horror fans a haunting first look at a world where natural catastrophe is merely the prelude to an altogether more insidious nightmare. Isolation, Ruin, and Biological Terror Set in the immediate aftermath of a devastating natural disaster, Obitus follows the surviving inhabitants of a remote, cut-off village. As if battling extreme environmental conditions and collapsed infrastructure were not enough, the disaster unearths a malicious, invasive organism. As the parasitic force begins to infiltrate and hijack human hosts, paranoia spreads faster than the organism itself. This turns neighbors against one another in a claustrophobic fight for biological survival. Emerging Genre Cinema to Watch By anchoring its visceral body horror in a stark, isolated rural setting, Obitus carves out a distinct niche
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Armageddon Road (Canada, 2026) Official Synopsis What happens in Vegas . . . might end the world. An ex-con with big dreams, Steve is hired to chauffeur a mob boss’ girlfriend for a night. He’s unaware that his passenger is dead and possessed by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Review What an absolute blast writer/director Karen Lam’s 1970s-set Armageddon Road is! Steve McNaulty (Brian McCaig) is a down-on-his-luck Las Vegas dreamer who hopes to find the funding to turn a parking lot into a themed attraction building. Doing what he can just to try to make ends meet, he is given the job of chauffeuring mob boss’s moll Delilah (Natalie Grace) for the evening, but when — unbeknownst to him — she dies in a bathroom and a supernatural entity takes over her body, the night’s going to get progressively stranger. I don’t want to give away any more than that, because Armageddon Road is loaded with
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Official synopsis After a drug-fueled car crash, two entitled private-school graduates flee into Melbourne’s nightlife, where a night of excess spirals out of control and exposes the cost of their privilege. Review Often genre films that deliberately feature despicable, unlikable main characters with no one for whom to truly root offer little to no reason for viewers to get invested. Thankfully, writer/director Gideon Aroni’s Australian thriller Pure Scum bucks that trend marvelously as its pair of drug-fueled young men make one idiotic decision after another, making for a mesmerizing ride. Ayden (Will Hutchins) and Jesse (Nikita Chronis) are friends who met in private school, from which they have recently graduated. Both come from well-off families/ Jesse has a reputation as a drug user and bad boy, and Ayden falls into Jesse’s group after a seemingly more innocent upbringing. Pure Scum involves news magazine-type interviews with family and friends of the two young men taking place after the fateful night where
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Crazy Lips (Japan, 2000) Official synopsis Satomi and her family are hounded by the press when her brother is accused of a vicious killing spree. Desperate to prove his innocence, Satomi goes to a psychic for help. The price the psychic asks is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. Review I feel that it’s important to note up front that director Hirohisa Sasaki’s Crazy Lips has no less than four rape scenes, with one involving necrophilia. And that’s not all of the depravity on display, by a longshot. If you are still reading, you may well be either desensitized or curious enough to give this film a watch. The screenplay was written by Hiroshi Takahashi, who also penned Ringu and Ringu sequels, and recently wrote and directed The House of the Serpent (2023). As great and influential as Ringu is, Crazy Lips feels like Takahashi just wanted to
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Whether fear-fare fanatics are in the mood for classics or cutting-edge new features, Dead And SudBuried Horror Film Festival (Sudbury, Suffolk, U.K.) has pretty much everyone covered. This year’s edition runs from October 22–25, 2026. Following is the official press announcement. The Dead And SudBuried Horror Film Festival returns to the sleepy market town of Sudbury, Suffolk for its 10th Anniversary edition, expanding to four days and welcoming movies from all over the world, celebrating new and classic horror movies! The terrifying event returns over from Thursday 22nd October to 25th October with another horror packed schedule featuring 11 brand new festival circuit features, 11 classic movies and 22 new horror shorts alongside Director/Cast Q&A’s, food trucks, merchandise and much more over four long, scary days. The Dead And SudBuried Horrorthon began life in 2016 in Suffolk in the small market town of Sudbury as a celebration of classic horror movies, screening seven classics over a single day in the
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You Are the Film (Japan, 2026) Official Tubi FrightFest Synopsis from https://frightfest.co.uk/LondoN2026/you-are-the-film.html The long-awaited directorial debut of Makoto Ueda, writer of BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES and RIVER. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO goes wacky Sci-Fi as Shimokitazawa native playwright Madoka and Sangenjaya-based band member Kazuma separately go and see a movie at the Tollywood independent cinema. But in the film, they each see the other person on screen — Madoka is in the film Kazuma is watching, and vice versa. In this impossible multiverse, incidents occur within each other’s stories as both communicate through the screen and work hard to solve the problems that arise in each other’s narratives. Review You Are the Film writer/director Makoto Ueda wrote the screenplays for the excellent time loop science-fiction comedies Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River. If you have seen either of those films, you can expect that you will be in for a humorous, touching treat of a genre feature
Continue reading →
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Official synopsis Desperate to save their possessed son, a fractured couple turns to a cursed Pagan device—unleashing a greater evil that threatens their sanity, their marriage, and their souls. Review Director Steven Fierberg’s The Spirit Lock (U.K., 2026) combines folk horror and possession horror with the battling of personal demons in an impressive slice of cinematic fear fare. The screenplay by Justin Stanley and Mark Jonathan Stanley is wonderfully crafted, and the cast members all check in with fine performances. Karl Mellor (Joe Anderson) is desperate enough to save his son Kit (Stefanos Paraskevopoulus) from what he fears is a demonic possession that he takes on the heavy responsibility of acquiring the titular pagan object. This being a horror film, obviously that will prove to have consequences. He tries to keep his tactics away from his wife Vanessa (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi), but naturally that can only last so long. Karl is frustrated that professionals such as man of the cloth Father
Continue reading →
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Unearthed Films is bringing director Doug Roos’ 2023 Japanese monster movie Bakemono to US home video with its first-ever wide-release Blu-ray edition this September. Featuring 100% practical special effects, creature design, and gore, the film offers a blood-soaked trip into body horror and classic monster cinema. An Apartment Full of Victims and a Ghastly Resident […]
Continue reading →
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Buenos Aries is absolutely up to it’s ass in flesh-eating ghouls. Such is the premise of 2024’s Portraits of the Apocalypse, a multi-tale fright flick that examines the apocalyptic event from a multitude of perspectives. Directors Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello each take turns telling stories of a world gone mad, and things […]
Continue reading →
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If your weekend plans involve looking for something extraordinarily bloody, wildly unhinged, and fast-paced, director Yeon Sang-ho has you covered. The workaholic maestro behind Train to Busan and Peninsula doesn’t believe in taking intermissions. Fresh off the release of The Ugly, Yeon is jumping right back into apocalyptic K-Horror. But if you think you know what a zombie outbreak looks like, Colony is here to completely rewrite the story. It swaps clumsy, lumbering ghouls for eerie, hive-like synchronization and speed. Biohazard Disasters The story wastes zero time plunging into high-octane corporate terror. Biologist Se-jeong (Jun Ji-hyun) is stuck inside a sleek corporate skyscraper for a routine job presentation, accompanied by her ex-husband Gyu-seong (Go Soo). Things quickly derail when another biologist, Young-cheol (Koo Kyo-hwan), frantically calls the police to blow the whistle on a bioterror experiment. However, before anyone can digest the claim, Young-cheol stabs the company’s CEO with a syringe. This instantly triggers a grotesque zombie transformation. Within seconds,
Continue reading →
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Directed by Rec. Revana and written by Cahangir Suleymanov, the official trailer for Obitus has arrived. Hailing from Azerbaijan, which borders Russia, this bleak English-language survival thriller blends atmospheric regional isolation with stomach-churning parasitic terror. The newly released footage offers horror fans a haunting first look at a world where natural catastrophe is merely the prelude to an altogether more insidious nightmare. Isolation, Ruin, and Biological Terror Set in the immediate aftermath of a devastating natural disaster, Obitus follows the surviving inhabitants of a remote, cut-off village. As if battling extreme environmental conditions and collapsed infrastructure were not enough, the disaster unearths a malicious, invasive organism. As the parasitic force begins to infiltrate and hijack human hosts, paranoia spreads faster than the organism itself. This turns neighbors against one another in a claustrophobic fight for biological survival. Emerging Genre Cinema to Watch By anchoring its visceral body horror in a stark, isolated rural setting, Obitus carves out a distinct niche
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Armageddon Road (Canada, 2026) Official Synopsis What happens in Vegas . . . might end the world. An ex-con with big dreams, Steve is hired to chauffeur a mob boss’ girlfriend for a night. He’s unaware that his passenger is dead and possessed by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Review What an absolute blast writer/director Karen Lam’s 1970s-set Armageddon Road is! Steve McNaulty (Brian McCaig) is a down-on-his-luck Las Vegas dreamer who hopes to find the funding to turn a parking lot into a themed attraction building. Doing what he can just to try to make ends meet, he is given the job of chauffeuring mob boss’s moll Delilah (Natalie Grace) for the evening, but when — unbeknownst to him — she dies in a bathroom and a supernatural entity takes over her body, the night’s going to get progressively stranger. I don’t want to give away any more than that, because Armageddon Road is loaded with
Continue reading →
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Official synopsis After a drug-fueled car crash, two entitled private-school graduates flee into Melbourne’s nightlife, where a night of excess spirals out of control and exposes the cost of their privilege. Review Often genre films that deliberately feature despicable, unlikable main characters with no one for whom to truly root offer little to no reason for viewers to get invested. Thankfully, writer/director Gideon Aroni’s Australian thriller Pure Scum bucks that trend marvelously as its pair of drug-fueled young men make one idiotic decision after another, making for a mesmerizing ride. Ayden (Will Hutchins) and Jesse (Nikita Chronis) are friends who met in private school, from which they have recently graduated. Both come from well-off families/ Jesse has a reputation as a drug user and bad boy, and Ayden falls into Jesse’s group after a seemingly more innocent upbringing. Pure Scum involves news magazine-type interviews with family and friends of the two young men taking place after the fateful night where
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