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#Manhole is a tense thriller that will keep your guessing until the very end.
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★★★★ out of ★★★★★ if you are a Troma fan and appreciate trashy and depraved satire.
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Lloyd Kaufman and team Troma return to their Shakespearean roots and turn this loose-bowel take on The Tempest into a skewering of the social norms of today's culture. This is the strongest, funniest, and most consistent Troma film I have seen since the '80s Troma glory days but it also pushes the censorship limbo bar so low that there may not be room to go more lowbrow than this.
A Night of Horror International Film Festival announces its first programming wave for 2025
The 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival has so many films, that it merits a 2 part preview!
The juggernaut genre festival is back for its 26th anniversary and is celebrating by showcasing 3 week's worth of international genre features, short films and special events in Montreal, Canada.
Florida's Popcorn Frights genre festival is coming back in 2022 with another monumental lineup! Here's what we know so far.
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!
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The post-apocalyptic Canadian survival tale 40 Acres is a savage and emotional story that tests the boundaries of Darwinian society at the brink. In the end, when countries and governments fail, the family unit survives. This movie has increased prominence due to the current tensions between Canada and the US. The sense of dread only increases when the plausibility factor of this story has increased tenfold in recent months. The plot mirrors a thrilling opening scene with a devastating closing act, which stacks the deck heavily against our protagonists. Pulses will pound.
It's that time again! The ninth annual MidWest WeirdFest will blast off with its undeniably eclectic mix of cinematic excellence March 6-9, 2025. We've got the full schedule and program right here!
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Betrayal. At its core, A Blind Bargain is a movie about the worst kind of betrayal you can imagine. Desperation and greed convince a young and troubled Vietnam veteran to submit his own mother to the schemes of a mad scientist. This groovy '70s retro thriller takes a cosmic turn through life-extending experimentation. This was the centerpiece movie of the 2025 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
Every year, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival serves up North America’s largest selection of genre-film goodness, and this year’s 25th edition running August 5–25 is no exception. Along with science fiction, thriller, dark comedy, action, animation, and other exciting genres, horror has always been a big part of Fantasia. Here are six of Fantasia’s exciting fear-fare feature offerings on tap this year.
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Director Cristian Ponce's terrific Brazilian chiller A MOTHER'S EMBRACE weaves an eerie nursing home filled with mysterious residents, something weird winding through water, and trauma from childhood into a suspenseful, mysterious work with a riveting third act.
A Night of Horror Film Festival brings you the best and bloodiest new horror films from America and the world March 6-9, 2025. We've got all the details you need!
Preview of A Night of Horror, which makes its initial run in the United States from March 1–3, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
A Night of Horror International Film Festival announces its move from Australia to the United States in 2024.
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Abigail pits a group of misfit criminals up against their captive, a little ballerina dancer named Abigail. Much to their surprise, she's a powerful vampire. The movie is action packed, with plenty of gore and laughs, but is a station to station production that while fun, telegraphs its moves well in advance. It's empty calories, but, for many fans, sometimes this is exactly what you crave.
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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.
Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest has announced the full lineup for its March 4-6 run this year, and it’s a doozy! Along...
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Alma and the Wolf spins a strange and surprising story that weaves themes of unfulfilled dreams and dark secrets. Ethan Embry, Li Jun Li, and the rest of the cast provide an emotionally poignant and ultimately tragic fable. Part psychological thriller, part folk horror, this film may be the best showcase of Embry's acting chops in his extensive filmography. This movie was the opening film at the Portland Horror Film Festival.
New York's new Amazing Fantasy Fest kicks off this September with a jaw-dropping array of genre-film fare .
AN TAIBHSE, the first horror film produced entirely in the Irish language, screens at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest
Our good friends at the Portland Horror Film Festival have announced their 2024 film lineup! Once again, we are proud to sponsor one of the great little horror film festivals in the country. The festival will be held over five days and feature nonstop horror films, headlined by the West Coast premiere of Jill Gevargizian's (The Stylist) new film Ghost Game. This year TEN feature films will be presented, and as usual, some of the country's best curated horror short film blocks will be shown. Also, join The Scariest Things on Saturday, June 8 after the movies are done and play in our Horror Movie Greenlight Pitch!
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This is not a dream, this is really happening...Apartment 7A , a prequel to the 1968 horror masterpiece Rosemary's Baby, is GOOD!
The United Kingdom's superb Arrow Video FrightFest is one of the highlights each summer for scare-fare fans, and the fest has just presented its stunning poster this year, designed by Graham Humphreys. Following is the official press announcement.
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Ash is a big, bombastic science fiction horror film that wears its influences on its sleeves. It offers a thrilling opening sequence and a monstrous conclusion but gets completely lost in its storytelling. Director/composer Flying Lotus crafted lovely psychedelic visuals and composed a soundtrack that thunders with propulsive energy, but unmemorable characters prove to be this film's undoing.
Austria's prestigious SLASH Filmfestival is currently accepting submissions for its 13th edition next year.
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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.
Los Angeles’ Beyond Fest returns to indoor cinemas this year with a mouth-watering lineup of horror, science fiction, and genre-film fare. From September 29th–October 11th, the festival features cutting edge fear fare including world and west coast premieres, 4K restorations of beloved classics, and much more.
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Birthrite is a slow-burning American Folk Horror tale of a pregnant woman who inherits a New England home with a hidden occult legacy. She and her girlfriend struggle to start a family with the specter of a curse hanging over them. Birthrite had its world premiere showing at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2024.