Foreign Articles

The Overlook Film Festival Announces Its Fear-Fraught First Wave 

Fright fare fanatics, get your drool cups ready! The Overlook Film Festival has just released the first wave of films for its 2025 edition, taking place April 3–6 in New Orleans. No matter what your favorite form of scare fare might be, the fest is...

Movie Review: Caligula (1979): The Ultimate Cut

As so many of my reviews don't begin, let's travel back to the ancient days of the Roman Empire! Caligula (Malcom McDowell, A Clockwork Orange) is busy fucking around (literally) with his sister Drusilla (Teresa Ann Savoy, Salon Kitty... which just...

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...