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Spoiler-Free Reviews: A GRAND MOCKERY, LUCID, and LE TOUR DE CANADA (Fantasia 2025)
A GRAND MOCKERY (Australia, 2025) Cowriters/codirectors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon brought my university-days...
Popcorn Frights Announces Its First Wave of Programming For 2025 Edition
Florida’s Popcorn Frights is famous for presenting the finest fear-fare cinema to Florida every summer, and this...
Spoiler-Free Reviews: “Beacon” and “A Family Guide to Hunting” (Tribeca Festival 2024)
Beacon (U.S., 2024) Last year, Tribeca gave the world a top-notch tale of two strangers, a man and a woman, stuck in...
Horror Fuel’s Highly Recommended Fright Fare for Tribeca 2024
New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival is renowned for showcasing incredible films from around the world, created by...
Romford Film Festival Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “Kill Your Lover,” “Ill Fares the Land,” and “Have a Good Day”
Kill Your Lover (U.K.; 2023) The fractured relationship between former rock musician Dakota (Paige Gilmour) and her...
Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Bookworm,” “Hevel,” “Souling,” “Dark Mommy,” “Spooky Crew,” “I Could Just Die, and That Would Be Alright” (Overlook Film Festival)
Following is a capsule review roundup of six of the short-film shockers that screened at this year’s edition of New...
Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Cereal,” “The Curse of the Velvet Vampire,” “We Joined a Cult,” “Up on the Housetop,” “Strange Creatures,” “Howl at the Dead”
Following is a roundup of six of the short-film shockers that screened at this year’s edition of New Orlean’s Overlook...
Calgary Underground Film Festival Unveils Its Terrific 2024 Lineup
Horror buffs and genre-film fans of all stripes: The Calgary Underground Film Festival has just released its lineup...
Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Apotemnofilia,” “Lullaby,” “The Bleacher,” “Make Me a Pizza” (SXSW)
Apotemnofilia The titular condition is the desire of amputation for a healthy limb, and writer/director Jano Pita’s...
Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “The Activated Man,” “Escalation,” and “Ron” (Romford Horror Festival)
THE ACTIVATED MAN (U.S., 2023) Writer/director Nicholas Gyeney’s feature The Activated Man is an interesting variation...
Spoiler-Free Short-Film Reviews: “The Foreboding: Fractured,” “Sour Milk,” and “Dolly Molly’s Playhouse” (Romford Horror Festival)
THE FOREBODING: FRACTURED (U.K., 2024) In director Kemal Yildrim’s short The Foreboding: Fractured, four university...