Foreign Articles

The Sinister Seven: A Septet of Short Films We Recommend for Panic Fest 2025

Kansas City’s Panic Fest 2025 opens March 27 with an in-person festival running through April 2 and a virtual version running through April 6. More than 130 films are on tap, and I’ve been fortunate to have a sneak peek at some of the selections....
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE HOUSE WAS NOT HUNGRY THEN and ONE LAST DANCE (Cinequest 2025) 

The House Was Not Hungry Then (U.K., 2025)  Official synopsis: An abandoned house in the Scottish countryside holds a terrible secret. Day after day, a man posing as a real estate agent lures visitors inside, and one by one they disappear. One...
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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...
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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...
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