Foreign Articles

Spoiler-Free Reviews: IT WILL FIND YOU and DOGHOUSE (Dark Nights Film Festival)

Along with an outstanding array of feature-length horror films, Sydney, Australia’s inaugural Dark Nights Film Festival also boasted a selection of fine fright-fare short films from around the world. Following is the first installment of reviews...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: WITTE WIEVEN and STOMACH IT (Screamfest)

Witte Wieven (Heresy) (Netherlands, 2024) Director Didier Konings tackles patriarchal oppression of women, religious hypocrisy, and the search for self-identity in his beautiful looking folk horror Witte Wieven (Heresy). The story is set in a small...
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Spoiler-Free Review: BAAL (Beyond Fest)

Official synopsis: A twisted new tale from Joseph Sims-Dennett (BFI London Film Festival Selected Observance). Grace returns to the small town she grew up in to find the brother, David, is missing. Deciding that she must reunite her family, she...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: 1978 and SOLVENT (Dark Nights Film Festival)

1978   Codirectors Luciano and Nicolás Onetti craft a marvelously macabre fright-fare outing with 1978 (Argentina, 2024). Set in Argentina in the titular year, and specifically during both a military dictatorship and the World Cup match...
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