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Spoiler-Free Reviews: ELECTROPHILIA and ASTRO NOTS (Fantasia 2024)

Electrophilia (Los Impactados) Argentinian feature Electrophilia touches on body horror and eroticism involving electricity but never goes full-on with these themes, instead feeling more like a character study of its protagonist, veterinarian...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: DARKEST MIRIAM and THE OLD MAN AND THE DEMON SWORD (Fantasia 2024)

Darkest Miriam Canadian feature Darkest Miriam is a slow-burn thriller that follows thirtysomething librarian Miriam (Britt Lower), who is grieving over the loss of her father. She spends her days at work following routine— including dealing with...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: The Cursed Land and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

The Cursed Land Thai horror The Cursed Land is an ambitious work that perhaps takes on too much in its attempt to deliver a fear-fare tale involving djinn while addressing issues involving the largely Muslim Malay community in Thailand. Mit (Ananda...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: The Tenants, Tenement, Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary, and Respati

Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary South Korea's ultracompetitive education system is world-renowned. Students spend years studying for an exam so important that it has the potential to determine their entire future. Imagine being...

Spoiler-Free Review: THE SEVERED SUN (Fantastic Fest)

Sep 30, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun (U.K., 2024) is an engrossing work that takes folk horror elements and...

Movie Review: The Creature (1977) – Severin Blu-ray

Sep 29, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller

Christina (Ana Belén) has it all, she lives a comfortable life with her husband Marcos (Juan Diego), the host of a...

Movie Review: Exhuma (2024) – Well Go USA Blu-ray

Sep 28, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Lee Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and Yoon Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun) are a shaman duo that offers their services to those that are...

Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: MOTHER TONGUE, JANELLE’S BABY, and IHRUQAX (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

Oct 10, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films

Mother Tongue (Australia, 2023) Jade (Amelia Foxton, who wrote the screenplay) and Alex (Chiara Gizzi) want to...

Spoiler- Free Film Review: Aberrance (2022)

Oct 5, 2023 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Baatar Batsukh is a cinematographer making his directorial debut with the Mongolian horror film Aberrance, which he...

Spoiler-Free Film Review: SUBURBAN TALE (Fantastic Fest)

Oct 4, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Director Stephen Alexander’s Suburban Tale (AKA Tamso; India, 2023) is a dark, brooding film that becomes increasingly...

Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: DID I? and SAVING GRACE (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

Sep 27, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

DID I? (United States, 2023) When viewers first meet Genevieve (Alexandra Pica), the main character of director...

Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: STOP DEAD, MERGER, THE DAM, and RIDE, BABY, RIDE (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

Sep 25, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films

Australia’s A Night of Horror International Film Festival has a bounty of fear-fare shorts from around the globe on...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: STRANGE DARLING and THE WAIT (Fantastic Fest)

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