The end of 2023 means another Top 10! So much good stuff to choose from, but a few things stabbed just a bit deeper than the rest.
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Positively leaping into the #1 spot of my "How Did I Miss This?" ranking, Maurice Devereaux's Montreal-based End Of The Line is a wicked little surprise. A gory mix of religious fanatics, old skool pagers, subway demons, and possibly tainted muffins!
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Airell Anthony Hayles is back with what might be the first in his Santa Horror trilogy! Werewolf Santa premiered at this year's FrightFest London and shows you don't need piles of cash to make an entertaining horror/comedy monster flick.
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Paco Plaza's supernatural, semi-religious horror tour de force, Verónica, humanizes the demonic harassment sub-genre. Just Say No to Ouija boards, kids!
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The Bloomquist Brothers return with another well written genre romp, Founders Day! Election season can be hazardous to your health.
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Lauren LaVera -- star of Terrifier 2 -- returns to the Horror fold with a practical-effects-laden Euro Horror tale of witchcraft, demons, and human sacrifice. Oh, my!
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What do you get when you combine Doug Bradley, religious horror, practical effects, signals from space, and a cool retro vibe? Who cares! It's DOUG BRADLEY!
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A tense, character-driven survival flick played against a background of feuding paramilitary groups and an epidemic of zombie infection.
With its World Premiere coming up later this month at FrightFest UK, we've got a sneak peak at some stills, the poster, and the first trailer for How To Kill Monsters!
Highlights include a Special Presentation of Clive Barker’s NIGHTBREED: DIRECTOR’S CUT, an Under the Stars event on Miami Beach’s famous Ocean Drive, celebrating Tobe Hooper’s all-time horror classic TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, plus seven more Virtual Film Premieres!
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In keeping with the latest trend in J-Horror, Bldg. N (a.k.a., N-Goto) is based on true events that happened at an apartment complex in Gifu Prefecture back in 2000. Ghosts! Cultists! Corpses! Hooray!
Highlights include seven feature film World Premieres, a special spotlight of made-in-Florida films, and a live original score performance for Herschell Gordon Lewis’ splatter masterpiece BLOOD FEAST for its 60th anniversary. Plus, a “1983-D” celebration of 3-D films and a focus on the “Australian Invasion” of bold new genre films coming from down under!
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Argentina's genre darling Tamae Garateguy returns with her latest period piece/nunsploitation/occult/LGBTQ/feminist manifesto! With its World Premiere at this year's Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), Garateguy's given us a lot to unpack.
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From producer and Japanese horror stalwart, Takashi Shimizu, comes a meandering social-horror tale of a young woman returning to visit her small hometown only to discover that life there was never as rosy as it seemed.
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A psychic has to save an unlucky trio after they run over the wrong old lady in this mid-length chiller!
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A solid entry in the Indie Slasher genre that starts off strong with a claustrophobic, trust-no-one vibe.
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What do you get when you combine the voice talents of Sid Haig, Jordan Peele, and Robert Englund with a cast of creepy life-size puppets and a story that might as well have been written by Philip K Dick? It’s called Abruptio.
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What happens when you get a bunch of Canadian SFX folks together and let them loose in the snowy back-country of rural Canada? You get a giant mutant leech sucking onto people's heads, that's what!
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A fantastic ghost story anthology about a very haunted apartment building in South Korea. Expertly interwoven tales that turn the spookiness up to 11!
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From the writer/director of Nati Morti (2022) comes horror straight out of an Albanian bunker!
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An experimental, kaleidoscope of shaky-cam weirdness. Lovers of slow burning, stream of consciousness film making, this one's for you!
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A splatterrific swissploitation film chock full of mayhem, fascists and, above all, dairy products.
The Golden Age of Horror continues to churn out fun, exciting, imaginative, shocking, and innovative delights for all!
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Ancient curses! Decapitation! Time travel! Hillbillies! Rental property! Aliens! If you're a fan of absurdist horror/comedy, this one's right up your alley.
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The Creeper is back! Unfortunately, he’s as painful to watch this time as he was the last time we saw him.
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A beautifully shot slow-burn B-movie with a goofy looking alien, fun dialog, and a visceral closing act. Meteor showers, man. What's not to love?
TERRIFIER 2, SMILE, and the North American premiere of SCARE PACKAGE II headline this year's Popcorn Frights' Wicked Weekend!
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Covering every entry in the long running Child's Play franchise, this finely crafted documentary is sure to be a hit with fans of the wise-cracking killer doll, Chucky, and horror lovers in general.
Popcorn Frights continues to hit it out of the horror park with their second wave of scheduled films and events. The record-setting scale of their 2022 lineup is inconceivable!
Florida's Popcorn Frights genre festival is coming back in 2022 with another monumental lineup! Here's what we know so far.