Foreign Articles

Movie Reviews: CONTORTED and GUIMOON: THE LIGHTLESS DOOR (London Korean Film Festival)

Contorted Writer/director Kang Dong Hun’s Contorted (South Korea, 2022) looks great and is well acted but its screenplay is weighed down with horror movie cliches. The film opens intriguingly with preteen girl HeeWoo (Kim BoMin) seeing a paranormal...

Film Reviews: GHOSTING GLORIA and WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD (Lund Fantastic Film Festival)

Ghosting Gloria Ghost movie, supernatural fantasy, romantic comedy, sex comedy, literary comedy — charming Uruguayan feature Ghosting Gloria (Muerto con Gloria, 2021) is all of this and more. Codirected by husband-and-wife filmmaking team Marcela...

Film Review: Piggy (Lund Fantastic Film Festival)

Spanish chiller Piggy (Cerdita, 2022) is a terrific serial killer/coming-of-age/bullying and revenge mash-up that digs in deep on questions concerning doing what’s right, scapegoating, the dangers of a collective mindset, and more. Writer/director...

Japanese Serial Killer Thriller ‘Missing’ Is Coming Home (Trailer)

Director Shinzô Katayama's Japanese horror film, Missing (Sagasu/さがす) is now playing in select theaters and is heading to VOD this month.    The film centers on "depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells...