Foreign Articles

Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: BY THE THROAT and CONVEYANCE(Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow)

BY THE THROAT (U.K., 2025) Director David Luke Rees crafts an impressively eerie observation of grief and PTSD in his feature By the Throat. Lizzy (Patricia Allison) is a young woman who survived a knife attack but naturally still has terrifying...

Spoiler-Free Film Review: RUMPELSTILTSKIN (Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow)

Synopsis: Once upon a time a greedy miller (Mark Cook) promises to marry off his beautiful daughter Evaline (Hannah Baxter-Eve) to the King (Colin Malone). But things don’t quite go to plan when his lies are uncovered and the pair are about to be...

Movie Review: Venom (1981) – Blue Underground 4K

Hotel magnate/former big game hunter Howard Anderson (Sterling Hayden, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) has a problem with his house staff; namely his maid Louise (Susan George, Enter the Ninja) has hatched a...

The Overlook Film Festival Announces Its Fear-Fraught First Wave 

Fright fare fanatics, get your drool cups ready! The Overlook Film Festival has just released the first wave of films for its 2025 edition, taking place April 3–6 in New Orleans. No matter what your favorite form of scare fare might be, the fest is...