★★3/4 out of ★★★★★
Evil is lurking under the streets of Paris in Deep Fear!
Archive for ‘Festivals’
Liz’s Review: The Antares Paradox (Fantastic Fest 2022)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Will the search for life on other planets alienate us from each other? That is at the heart of The Antares Paradox.
Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Films We Can’t Wait to See at Australia’s A Night of Horror International Film Festival
The 14th edition of A Night of Horror International Film Festival takes place at Dendy Cinemas Newtown, Sydney, Australia, from October 17th until October 23rd, 2022, and what a lineup the fest has in store!
Vienna’s SLASH Film Festival 2022 Opens This Week
Vienna’s SLASH Film Festival is set to kick off in a couple of days, and it’s a stunner! From the world premieres of Austrian features Rupture and Mother Superior to the opening episodes of Lars von Trier’s Kingdom Exodus to a fine selection of other horror features and shorts from around the globe boasting monsters, murderers, and all other sorts of mayhem, SLASH Film Festival is a can’t-miss event.
Popcorn Frights’ 2022 Wicked Weekend lineup reveal!
TERRIFIER 2, SMILE, and the North American premiere of SCARE PACKAGE II headline this year’s Popcorn Frights’ Wicked Weekend!
Joseph’s Review: FINAL CUT (Arrow Video FrightFest)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
This remake of the surprise Japanese hit One Cut of the Dead puts a French spin on the proceedings — and it works!
Joseph’s Reviews: THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN and THE GHOSTS OF MONDAY (Arrow Video FrightFest)
The Ones You Didn’t Burn ★★★★ out of ★★★★★
The Ghosts of Monday ★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
These two features from Arrow Video FrightFest offer plenty of supernatural eeriness.
Fortean Film Festival Brings High Strangeness to the U.K.
Aficionados of the weird, the wild, and the wonderful, prepare yourselves for two days of stimulating cinema as The International Fortean Film Festival presents its 2022 edition on September 2 and 3 in Gloucester, U.K. From the supernatural to cryptozoology to alien life and far beyond, the fest has selected a tantalizing array of narrative and documentary features and short films.
Joseph’s Reviews: STALKER and MEAN SPIRITED (Arrow Video FrightFest)
Stalker ★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Mean Spirited ★★★ out of ★★★★★
Two premieres from Arrow Video FrightFest are well worth the attention of horror film fans.
The Scariest Things Podcast Extra: An interview with Stag director Alexandra Spieth
Alexandra Spieth’s debut horror-comedy feature Stag was the revelation of the Portland Horror Film Festival 2022. Spieth is an enthusiastic interview and a total blast to talk to. Check out our exclusive discussion with the emerging horror writer-director right here!
Joseph’s Reviews: OLD MAN and PUSSYCAKE (Popcorn Frights)
Old Man ★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Pussycake ★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Two wild features from Popcorn Frights are both worth putting on your cinema radar.
Joseph’s Review: The Loneliest Boy in the World (Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2022)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A troubled teen boy tries to put together a friend and a family consisting of dead people in this poignant, breezy, fanciful fairy tale.
Eric’s Review: Distress Signals (Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2022)
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Distress Signals is a micro-budget survival thriller, done simply, and executed well. This is a lost in the woods scenario, a story that we can all identify with. In its simplicity though, I found myself wishing there was more dramatic tension and more visceral threat. As thrillers go, this is more solitary drama than thrills.
Robert’s Review: Living With Chucky (2022 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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.
Fantastic Fest 2022 Preview!
Fantastic Fest is turning 17 and celebrating with 8 days of parties, events and over 70 films!
Eric’s Review: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (2022 Popcorn Frights)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
The unique and stylistically powerful art of Mike Mignola is put into the shadowy spotlight of the documentary of the Hellboy artist. A documentary is only as interesting as the subject material, and Mr. Mignola proved to be a fascinating study of a complex individual and a late blooming artistic genius.
Mike’s Review: Third Saturday in October Part IV (2022 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)
★★ out of ★★★★★
We all know the rule. Sequels are (mostly) awful. Always (most of the the time). The further you Get in to a franchise the sequels will GROW proportionally more awful. Two might be passable, but by the time you get to Part IV you’ve just purchased a non-refundable one way ticket to stink town. Population: suck.
Mike’s Review: Third Saturday in October (2022 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)
★★★.5 out of ★★★★★
Many horror films try, but equally, many films fail to concoct the perfect period piece. Often times concept for period pieces in the world of horror seems to be centered around someone’s uncle who has a really mint 1977 Trans Am. Seems like an easy tasked to build an entire film around some funky vintage clothes and a sweet ride, but more often than not it’s a task where many fail.
Mike’s Review: Malibu Horror Story (2022 Popocorn Frights Film Festival)
★★ out of ★★★★★
The CW made a found footage horror movie! Well, not really, but it sure feels like it. Too perfect kids. Too beautiful actors. Too perfectly clean footage and technology. Replete with a rag tag group of Scooby Doo-esque paranormal researchers!
Joseph’s Review: Tiny Cinema (Popcorn Frights)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Fans of horror comedy should consider the deliciously delirious horror comedy anthology Tiny Cinema required viewing.
Liz’s Review: Confession (Fantasia International Film Festival)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A locked room mystery that explores how far one lawyer will go to get a Confession.
Eric’s Review: The Eyes Below (2022 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
The Eyes Below is perhaps the closest thing to a real nightmare since David Lynch’s 1977 opus, Eraserhead. If you have ever had dreams of being smothered, suffocated, or strangled, this is your unrelenting torment. Be mindful though, it also includes the occasionally repetitive tedium of a dream you can’t get out of..
Joseph’s Review: Skinamarink (Fantasia)
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Skinamarink is a mesmerizing work set in the dark of a nighttime home that finds two young siblings confronted by a chilling evil, with visual and aural approaches that make the proceedings all the more unsettling.
Liz’s Review: Cult Hero (Fantasia International Film Festival)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Gather your fellow members, put out a tray of deviled eggs and prepare to be busted by CULT HERO!
Liz’s Review: The Breach (Fantasia International Film Festival)
★★ out of ★★★★★
A small town cop works to unravel the mystery of a mangled body and missing child in The Breach.
Liz’s Review: Megalomaniac (Fantasia International Film Festival)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Nature versus nurture…when you’re the descendants of a serial killer, it’s both.
2022 Popcorn Frights’ Second Wave of Programming!
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!
Liz’s Review: Employee of the Month (Fantasia International Film Fest)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A hilarious, scathing and deadly look at misogyny through the lens of office politics.
Joseph’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival Reviews: THE WOMB and THE DEVIL’S DECEPTION
The Womb ★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
The Devil’s Deception
Southeast Asian creepfests The Womb and The Devils’ Deception are two of the finest pregnancy horror films in recent memory, with unforgettable images and unsettling goings-on.
From Monsters to Slashers to Supernatural Entities, UK’s Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 Lineup Has It All
Each summer, Arrow Video FrightFest brings a cinematic bounty of chillers and thrillers to London. This year’s lineup is mind boggling in size and scope, offering such riches as the world premiere of renowned director Neil Marshall’s latest offeringThe Lair to horror icon Dario Argento’s newest feature Dark Glasses to premieres by up and coming filmmakers from across the globe.