Foreign Articles

Spoiler-Free Review: WITHIN THE PINES (Dark Nights Film Festival)

Official logline: Sam Evans, an experienced sound recordist, travels to an isolated forest in order to capture sounds far away from the noise of civilisation. As Sam ventures deeper, his mic picks up a sound no one wants to hear while alone in the...

Frightening Four: A Quartet of FilmQuest Recommendations, Plus Screenplay Competition Entries 

The highly respected FilmQuest film festival is renowned not only for featuring droolworthy lineups of horror, science fiction, thriller, dark comedy, and related fare. It is also a popular destination for filmmakers and film fanatics alike to...

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...

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...