Foreign Articles

Spoiler-Free Review: MERMAID LEGEND (Ningyo Densetsu; Japan, 1984)

Official Mermaid Legend synopsis from Third Window Films: Celebrating its 40th anniversary, yet receiving its very first ever release internationally, Toshiharu Ikeda (Evil Dead Trap) brings us a beautiful and bloody revenge film.  In Mermaid...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS and THE LITTLE GIRL WHO CONQUERED TIME

Japanese director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi is best known to American horror film fans for his outrageous 1977 feature House (Hausu), but he was a prolific, genre-spanning filmmaker with 78 directing credits. Among his dozens of films that he helmed are...

Movie Review: Love & Crime (1969) – 88 Films Blu-ray

88 Films brings us 1969’s anthology Love & Crime (Meiji · Taishô · Shôwa: Ryôki onna hanzai-shi), which features stories about, and you better sit the hell down for this one, love… and crime! Coming from iconic Japanese cult director Teruo...

A Sinister Twist on a Classic: ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Premiering at Sundance

Prepare to be chilled to the bone by The Ugly Stepsister, a twisted reimagining of the Cinderella fairy tale. Written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, this haunting Norweigen film will make its world premiere as the opening night Midnight section...