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Friday One Sheet: SHARP CORNER Teaser
This will be a short one today, with this minimalist teaser for Jason Buxton's dark character study, Sharp Corner. A family man (Ben Foster) becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front...
Fantastic Fest 2024 Interview: FRANKIE FREAKO Director Steve Kostanski
I should start by saying I’m a Steve Kostanski stan. Does that make me a Kost-FAN-ski? In any event, his name on a project automatically elevates my interest. This is especially true when he’s in the director's chair. Manborg (2011),...
Highlands Horror Film Fest 2024: Two Days of Spooky Season Wierdness
Folks in New Jersey looking for a way to kick off the first weekend of spooky season won't have to look too far. The Highlands Horror Film Festival returns with another two-day event next weekend, October 3rd and 4th, over...
SLEEP Review: On the Merits of Insomnia
Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) are the sweetest young couple, full of promise and hope. Soo-jin works in business, hoping to make her way to the executive branch. Hyun-su is an actor; while he's only had small roles,...
THE BIRTHDAY Exclusive: Watch This Never Seen Before Featurette
Norman, a young man very much in love with his girlfriend, attends her father's birthday party, held in a hotel where a sect happens to be preparing for the birth of the god it worships.
AZRAEL Review: No Words Needed. Just Survive.
Samara Weaving stars and E.L. Katz directs the survival horror-thriller. Simon Barrett wrote the original screenplay.
Fantastic Fest 2024: BRING THEM DOWN, THE RULE OF JENNY PEN Among Winners
With a couple more days left in the madness that is Fantastic Fest this year's award winners were announced by the festival. Christopher Andrews' drama thriller Bring Them Down, starring Barry Keoghegan and Christopher Abbott was awarded Best Picture...
V/H/S/BEYOND Official Trailer: Lots of Horror Action And Cosmic Gore in Store For Franchise Fans
With the Fantastic Fest world premiere of V/H/S/Beyond in the bag our attention now turns to the streaming premiere next week on Shudder, on October 4th. Today, Shudder released the official trailer for it and it looks like each...
Fantastic Fest 2024 Review: WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? It Will Happen to Everyone
As found footage has firmly established itself as a genre, its foothold on the public imagination (and on that of filmmakers) bears scrutiny. The excellent documentary The Found Footage Phenomena (2021) and books such as Found Footage Horror Films by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas...
Hollywood Suite's Shocktober Lineup Includes R.L. Stine's ZOMBIE LAND, The Rarely Seen THE HAUNTING OF JULIA, And More
There you are, preparing your spooky season viewing schedule as October approaches. If you're a subscriber to Hollywood Suite here in Canada then you have to pay mind to their Shocktober lineup. The highlights of the month, over a...
MUBI's Spooky Season Offerings This October Include REVENGE And KNIVES AND SKIN
As spooky season approaches consider what streamer MUBI has to offer this October, starting with their collection The New Coven: A Female Horror Renaissance. The collection includes breakout hits Revenge from Coralie Fargeat and Jennifer Reeder's Knives And Skin, perennial...
TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY 4K Review: Gregg Araki Takes You Back To The '90s
The 1990s already felt mid-apocalyptic to the queer community -- AIDS had torn through America largely unimpeded in the '80s thanks to the utter disregard of the Reagan and Bush governments, and though life-sustaining treatments began to roll out in...
KRAZY HOUSE Official Trailer: Nick Frost And Alicia Silverstone Star in New Flick From NEW KIDS Duo
Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil's violent satire Krazy House is coming to VOD on October 4th and the official trailer is here to mark the occasion. When Russian workers in Bernie’s house turn out to be wanted...
Toronto 2024 Review: THE CUT, Orlando Bloom Gets Shredded in Harrowing Boxing Drama
Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and John Turturro lead Sean Ellis' sports drama.
DADDY'S HEAD Official Trailer: UK Familial Horror on Shudder Next Month
Benjamin Barfoot's horror flick Daddy's Head has its world premiere at Fantastic Fest this Sunday, and swiftly moves to streaming on Shudder on Friday, October 11th. The official trailer arrived today. Check it out down below. In the...
SLASH Filmfestival 2024: Shorts Program Profile
SLASH Filmfestival is currently underway in Vienna, Austria, having launched their latest edition yesterday. One time Anarchist Tom Kiesecoms is part of the team there and they’re very proud of the shorts programmes that have been put together this year....
Friday One Sheet: DEAD MAIL
Delightfully low-fi and textured, the key art for Joe DeBoer's and Kyle McConaghy's Dead Mail not only is a great reflection of the analog style of the film, but also offers a significant amount of information about the plot. The...
MotelX 2024: ODDITY And THE SUBSTANCE Among Award Winners
MotelX has wrapped up this year's edition of the festival. As per usual, the festival had a program packed with local and international talent. In that regard everyone is a winner but when it comes to to the awards handed...
REPO MAN 4K Review: This Criterion Release Rocks
For those who like a good dose of honesty and chaos, the 1984 punk cult classic debut from Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell), Repo Man is out in a 4K/Blu-ray combo. The release is beautiful; from the...
THE SHADE Exclusive Clip: Supernatural Horror in Theaters Tomorrow
Following the loss of his father, a grieving twenty-year-old struggles to hold his family together as an unspeakable darkness plagues his older brother.
