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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival Offers In-Person and Online Viewing for Its Ninth Edition

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival Offers In-Person and Online Viewing for Its Ninth Edition

The FINAL GIRLS BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL proudly unveils its 9th edition, featuring a captivating array of horror cinema that includes nine feature films, twelve short film blocks, and a variety of horror-themed events and workshops led by international genre experts. This year’s program highlights queer horror narratives, digital dystopias, eco horror, folk horror, the absurd & surreal, and more. Scheduled from February 7-11, 2023, the festival will take place at City Kino Wedding and will also feature an online component for broader accessibility. Dedicated to elevating the work of women and non-binary filmmakers in the horror genre, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival has earned recognition as one of MovieMaker Magazine’s Top 50 Genre Festivals in the World and has been named among Dead Central’s The Best Horror Festivals in the World. This edition continues the festival’s tradition of challenging conventions and showcasing groundbreaking horror that pushes boundaries and sparks conversation. Watch our 2024 trailer here! FEATURE FILMS BOOGER Written and

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Joseph Perry
Jan 8, 2024
HorrorFuel.com's "Top 10 Shows Of 2023"

HorrorFuel.com’s “Top 10 Shows Of 2023”

Hundreds of new series premiere every year and return for new seasons, but what are the best of 2023? We’ve got a list of the top 10 must-see shows you don’t want to miss. 10. John Carpenter’s Suburban Scream The new six-episode series will explore terrifying true tales of terror that took place in seemingly perfect American hometowns. Each episode will delve into the monstrous evil that lurks beneath the surface of friendly suburbia through the lens of one frightful tale. In addition to firsthand accounts, the episodes will include cinematic reenactments, personal archives, and historic town press coverage. Check out our interview with the series’ director Jordan Roberts. 9. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Godzilla returns this week in the new Apple TV+ series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” and he’s bringing some friends, well, enemies too. Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, “Monarch: Legacy of

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HorrorFuel
Dec 27, 2023
Riverdale And More: Horror Comics That Provide Chills And Thrills This October

Riverdale And More: Horror Comics That Provide Chills And Thrills This October

Get your spooky on with these new horror (and kiddie horror) comics that are real treats, no tricks. MAGE AND THE ENDLESS UNKNOWN is surprisingly terrifying wordless YA horror with echoes of Junji Ito disguised in a cute TV animation style. MAGE features a nonbinary protagonist created by nonbinary artist SJ Miller, battling inventive and haunting monsters on a quest to save their realm! PUB DATE: August 29, 2023 One of the best YA graphic novels of the year was quietly released by Dark Horse Comics this summer and it is due for its moment now that Fall is here! A blend of Stranger Things horror and high school nostalgia, THE ROCK GODS OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE by Rafer Roberts and Mike Norton follows a garage band trying to impress one of their idols at a gig that, unfortunately for them, coincides with a vicious monster invasion. It’s got John Hughes heart and all-out horror action. A true can’t miss! PUB

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 8, 2023
Get Your Spooky On This October Free With Redbox (Guide)

Get Your Spooky On This October Free With Redbox (Guide)

Here are all the FREE thrills, chills, and jump-scares you need to properly enjoy the SPOOKIEST month of the year! Enjoy your Halloween with these terrifically terrifying titles free on Redbox streaming! Halloween Feature Film Anyone who’s ever watched a horror film in the last 35 years knows the story of Michael Myers, who as a child, butchered his sister with a kitchen knife. Committed to a mental institution and watched over by Dr. Loomis, he engineers his escape 15 years later, returning to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night to terrorize anyone who gets in his way, including babysitter Laurie Strode. Cast: Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape), Jamie Lee Curtis (Knives Out), Tony Moran (Death House) Available: 10/1 Day of the Dead Feature Film A small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry zombies after the US Army’s failed attempt to quarantine an influenza like epidemic. A small group of survivors try to escape in a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 28, 2023
Movie Review: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)/The Killer Shrews (1959) - Film Masters Blu-ray

Movie Review: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)/The Killer Shrews (1959) – Film Masters Blu-ray

Just outside of a small town, deep within a ravine, a gila monster has grown to enormous size (and magically became a bearded lizard which is in turn presented on miniature sets to simulate it’s large scale) where it promptly eats two folks sucking face out on Lover’s Lane. This causes the local teeny-bopper community to spring into action to assist the local sheriff (Fred Graham) in finding their chums, but even when their pal, ace mechanic/drag racer Chase Winstead (Don Sullivan, The Monster of Piedras Blancas) eventually locates the couple’s car and the mysterious damage it displays, no one expects a giant monster to be the cause… because they aren’t completely insane. The monster biz escalates however from attacks on cars and trucks, to trains… which finally gets people to start digging on the possibility of a dinosaur-sized lizard hissing it’s ass off all over town… Will Chase be able to save the town, and more importantly the sock

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DanXIII
Sep 10, 2023
Free Titles Coming To Redbox And Crackle This July

Free Titles Coming To Redbox And Crackle This July

What’s better than a good horror movie? A free one and Rebox and Crackle have plenty coming this July! REDBOX Available on July 1, 2023: The ABCs of Death A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty. The Void A blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road is rushOfficerfficer Carter to a nearby hospital with a skeleton crew. Trapped inside by hooded figures, Carter discovers that the patients and staff are transforming into something inhuman. Kiss of the Damned A lonely vampire falls in love with a screenwriter and transforms him into one of the undead, but their budding romance is threatened by her vivacious, troublemaking sister. Fear Pharm 2 Melanie has just gained consciousness to discover that she is being held hostage by the Walker family so they can harvest her special skin in order to create a breakthrough skin care cream and bloom the business; also, she’s not alone. Cast: John Littlefield

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 1, 2023
Killer Horror Films Coming To Shudder This June

Killer Horror Films Coming To Shudder This June

BROOKLYN 45 Streaming on Shudder June 9 **SHUDDER PREMIERE** (Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ) Writer & Director: Ted Geoghegan Cast: Anne Ramsey, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Kristina Klebe Synopsis: Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all too literal. QUICKSAND Streaming on Shudder June 23 **SHUDDER PREMIERE** (Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ) Director: Andres Beltran Writer: Matt Pitts Cast: Carolina Gaitan, Allan Hawco Language: English Synopsis: On the brink of divorce, an American couple travels to Colombia for a work conference. While hiking through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake in order to escape. CHILDREN OF THE CORN Streaming on Shudder June 30 (Available in US, CA) Writer &

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 22, 2023
Criminally Underrated Horror Movies You Need To Watch - Part I

Criminally Underrated Horror Movies You Need To Watch – Part I

Many great horror films have been released over the years that have fallen between the cracks, movies that everyone should have seen. We’re here to remedy that. This movie list series will put a spotlight on some of those films. Frailty (2001) In the dark, thrilling, and brilliant film directed by and starring Bill Paxton and also starring Matthew McConaughey, “a mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were, in fact, “demons.” Frailty is a must-see. Where to watch: HBO Max, Roku, Direct TV The Others (2001) Written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, the film stars Nicole Kidman as a woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children and becomes convinced that the home is haunted. Where to watch: DVD Session 9 (2001) This movie is simple, effective, and brilliant. In the film, tensions

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2023
10 Horror Comedies Streaming Now On Tubi (Part I)

10 Horror Comedies Streaming Now On Tubi (Part I)

The only thing we love more than a scary movie is a horror comedy that will leave you in stitches. Tubi has a ton of horror comedies, and we’ve got a list of some of the best the free service has to offer (in no particular order). Burying the Ex (2014) Joe Dante’s fun flick finds a guy regretting moving in with his girlfriend when she dies and returns as a zombie. How can he move on when she won’t die? Office Uprising (2018) An employee at a weapons factory discovers that an energy drink turns his co-workers into zombies. Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil (2010) This classic horror comedy is as good as it gets. It offers everything a horror fan could want: blood, gore, and plenty of action, and it’s funny as hell. Affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 9, 2023
Panic Fest Brings the Fearful and the Frightening to Kansas City --- and Your Home --- This April

Panic Fest Brings the Fearful and the Frightening to Kansas City — and Your Home — This April

Kansas City’s renowned Panic Fest has announced a 2023 hybrid slate that will have horror and genre-film fans reaching for their drool cups! Whether your cinematic appetites lean toward slashers or slitherers, maniacs or monsters, or practically anything in between, Panic Fest offers something for pretty much everyone next month. Have a gander at the fest’s official press announcement, which follows. Universal Pictures’ new Dracula horror-comedy Renfield, starring Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult as Renfield and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as The Prince of Darkness, kicks off the 11th annual Panic Fest on Thursday, April 13, at Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, MO. Our festival expands its 2023 programming to feature over 100 films along with special guest filmmakers and special events for opening weekend. Panic Fest will once again be a hybrid festival allowing genre fans to enjoy programming in-person and keep the party going online at home with our virtual programming. In-Person: April 13-19, 2023 Virtual Fest: April

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Joseph Perry
Mar 15, 2023
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