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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...

Spoiler-Free Review: BAAL (Beyond Fest)

Official synopsis: A twisted new tale from Joseph Sims-Dennett (BFI London Film Festival Selected Observance). Grace returns to the small town she grew up in to find the brother, David, is missing. Deciding that she must reunite her family, she...

Movie Review: The Miracle Fighters (1982) – Eureka! Classics Blu-ray

Mar 28, 2025 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Director Yuen Woo-Ping's (the man responsible for the furious (and gravity defying) fightin' in 1999's The Matrix) The...

Calgary Underground Film Festival 2025 Offers Exciting Genre CinemaFare

Mar 28, 2025 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Indie, News, Sci-Fi, Short Films, Thriller

The Calgary Underground Film Festival has a distinguished reputation for annually presenting an incredible array of...

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

Mar 27, 2025 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Short Films

Kansas City’s Panic Fest 2025 opens March 27 with an in-person festival running through April 2 and a virtual version...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: SUBJECT and PSYCHOSIS (Popcorn Frights)

Aug 17, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Subject (2023) Australian shocker Subject centers on Willem (Stephen Phillips), who we meet when he is under...

Black Magic Horror ‘The Thing Behind The Door’ Haunts Digital And VOD (Trailer)

Aug 16, 2023 | Foreign, Indie, Movie News, Movie Release, Movies, News, Trailers

A woman desperate to be reunited with her husband turns to black magic in the French indie horror The Thing Behind the...

The Tower: An Apartment Building Is Surrounded By A Strange Darkness In New Trailer

Aug 8, 2023 | Foreign, Movie News, Movie Release, Movies, News, Thriller, Trailers

An apartment building is plunged into darkness, and people are forced to choose a side in the upcoming French...

Spoiler-Free Review: CONVENIENCE STORY (Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film)

Aug 7, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Convenience Story (2022) is a surreal odyssey with film noir elements. If that sounds like a reference to David...

Spoiler-Free Review: BEST WISHES TO ALL (Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film)

Aug 3, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Japanese feature Best Wishes to All (2023) tackles that country’s problem with its aging population in a fright-fare...

Spoiler-Free Review: RAGING GRACE (Fantasia)

Jul 28, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews

Writer/director Paris Zarcilla’s U.K. feature Raging Grace (2023) combines social commentary about class divisions...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP and STAY ONLINE (Fantasia)

Jul 24, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Paranormal, Reviews, Thriller

Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) Followers of Fortean phenomena and aficionados of surreal and sylvan horror...

Monsters, Murderers, and Mayhem Come Calling at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2023

Jul 14, 2023 | Documentaries, Events, Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror Comedy, Movies, News, Sci-Fi, Thriller

London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest announces its 24th edition with a new headline sponsor and 70 drool-worthy horror...

Spoiler-Free Review: COYOTE (Romford Film Festival)

Jul 13, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Thriller

U.K. science fiction thriller Coyote (2023) combines current social issues with lo-fi science fiction elements. The...

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