Foreign Articles

Shorts Reviews: Spell On You, Chicks, Blood Rites (SLASH Film Festival)

Spell On You (La Verrue) Salomé (Inès Angelina Mnafek-Amandio) is a young girl facing problems at home, including having warts growing on her nose and adjusting to the polyamorous relationship that her father Gabriel (Sébastien Houbani) and mother...

Movie Review: “Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux” (Toronto International Film Festival)

I first saw famed Canadian auteur Guy Maddin’s debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital at the San Francisco International Film Festival when the film was on the festival circuit in 1988, and I was instantly captivated by its old-fashioned...

Blu-ray Review: Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)

Somewhere in the late 1970's, a man murders his demon possessed lady pal, and said evil force enters a necklace... he then proceeds to bury her under the floor of the house they shared. Enter Shinji: (Shinichi Fukazawa... a name you'll be hearing a...

Beyond Fest Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary with Premieres and Repertory Screenings Galore

Beyond Fest, the highest-attended genre film festival in the US, is excited to announce its complete slate of 2022 programming comprising 63 features, including 10 world premieres, 3 US premieres, and 25 West Coast Premieres. Following a sold-out...