Foreign Articles

A Fearful Four: A Quartet of Recommendations for Another Hole in the Head Film Festival 

San Francisco’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival is well known for curating unique cinematic fare each year that ranges from the mind-boggling to the outrageous to the philisophical, and beyond. This year’s edition runs December 1–25, at...
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Movie Review: Creature With the Blue Hand (1967) – Film Masters Special Edition Blu-ray

Aristocrat Dave Emerson (legendary madman/actor Klaus Kinski) has been found guilty of murder, by way of insanity, and is promptly hauled off to the local insane asylum as he proclaims his innocence.… This is followed by an opening montage set to a...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: INVITED and PINS AND NEEDLES (Blood in the Snow Film Festival)

Invited (Canada, 2024) Director Navin Ramaswaran heaps on the harrowing in his screenlife/cult horror feature Invited. Recovering alcoholic Linda (Martina Schabron) has strained relations with her extended family members after causing an accident...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: ADVENT, THE BITTER TASTE, and THE DRAFT! (Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Halloween)

Advent (2024) In director Airell Anthony Hayles’ U.K. chiller Advent  (AKA The Krampus Calendar), skeptical YouTuber Hayley (Rasin Pavlova) and her enamored camera operator Charlie (Cian Lorcan) record her latest project to disprove the...
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