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Rural horror and social issues meld in director Craig Oullette’s gruesome fear-fare feature Straight on Till Morning.
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The Letter sumptuously recreates the era of H.P. Lovecraft's 1930's New England. This languidly paced mystery feels like a Call of Cthulhu adventure, set in an elaborate mansion, and stocked with scheming characters with old grudges. This little indie film has big aspirations and ambitions but could have used a little streamlining. Prepare yourselves for lots of exposition and dark musings in period dialogue, while appreciating the fine details and rich textures.
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Things Will Be Different mashes together three tropes that require finesse and careful mechanics. The film fuses a bank heist, a time paradox, and a "don't cheat fate" theme, creating an intricate and complex plot. The story strings together an array of plot threads that could throw time out of balance. It elegantly presents its plot, but inevitably it challenges the audience to keep pace with the story.
The Scariest Things previews seven short films from Utah's FilmQuest.
Aaron Moorhead is one half of the prolific writing/acting/directing duo of Moorhead and Benson. The acclaimed duo produced some of the past decade's most mind-bending cosmic horror movies. It was only appropriate that he would serve as the keynote speaker at this year's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, and he took some time out of his busy festival schedule to talk with Eric Li about his Cosmic theories and theses.
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Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire documents a string of unsolved grisly murders in California's Inland Empire. This faux documentary is at once both sensational and plausible, treated as a real account of a heinous cosmically influenced serial killing spree. This film is hugely disturbing and is coated with a thick layer of bloody possible sauce.
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Filmmaker Jason Trost serves up a side-scrolling genre film that will have you digging out your favorite action horror video games.
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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.
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The Daemon was a perfect vessel to be unleashed at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. The debut feature from Devino and Yohe taps into all of the key tropes of Cosmic Horror: coping with inner demons, battling psychoses and grief, dreams from the underworld, and elder gods rising from the deep. Add in some wonderfully grotesque body horror and you get a banger of a movie. Plus: we get Azathoth. If you know, you know.
From monsters to murderous maniacs and beyond, London's FrightFest Halloween has something for fright-fare fans of all stripes!
Screamfest presents it full 2024 lineup.
If it's October, that means it is time for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. The legendary and beloved festival arrives in just a couple weeks so prepare your brains for cosmic madness! Our friends at the H.P.L.F.F. just released their press release!
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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!
Dark Nights Film Fest debuts in Australia in October
England's Dead Northern Film Festival announces its 2024 lineup
Back for its 8th year of frightening delights, Dead And SudBuried Horrorthon film festival has a weekend of horror coming up fast. Featuring 9 brand new festival circuit features including a UK premiere, 9 classic movies, and 18 new horror shorts plus Director/Cast Q&A’s and much, much more!
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Strange Darling is a masterclass in story narrative, full of breathtaking surprises and harrowing thrills. JT Mollner applied the non-linear storytelling cinema rules from Tarantino and Nolan to the horror genre and succeeded brilliantly. In a year that thus far has struggled to impress horror fans, Strange Darling is destined to be a classic. A fair warning, though: as impressive as this movie is, its use of sexual violence may be severely triggering for some audiences.
The 19th annual Fantastic Fest feature film lineup is here! Festival goers will be treated to 28 World Premieres, 23 International and North American Premieres, and 15 U.S. Premieres as well as parties, guests and MORE!
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In The Bunker, an alien fleet has arrived on Earth. Dr. Michelle Riley has been assigned to work in a deep underground bunker to find a bio-weapon that will kill the invaders and save Earth's human population. Isolation, alien schemes, and team dysfunction threaten to ruin the project's success. Some nifty effects and visuals offset a script that sometimes drifts into melodrama. The Bunker had its world premiere at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival.
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Booger is a body horror/comedy treatise on grief and loss. Anna's best friend Izzy has just died in a tragic bicycle accident. The only remnant from their relationship is Booger, a cat that the two Brooklyn roommates took in. When Booger bites Anna and runs away, Anna becomes the proverbial crazy cat lady in more ways than one. Grief and comedy are a tough pairing, and this story struggles to marry the two competing themes. Booger just played at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival.
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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.
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Repeat after me: Nothing good comes from conducting a séance! In Scared to Death (2024), a horror film crew conducts field research by invoking a seance in an abandoned orphanage with a sordid past. Bad idea! This breezy fun film is full of familiar seance tropes and charming characters. Though it doesn't introduce anything groundbreaking to the genre, it is solid entertainment from front to back. Scared to Death had its world premiere at Popcorn Frights Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale.
Trailer alert news item for FrightFest film THE FREAKS OF FANCY
Popcorn Frights Second Wave is here! Highlights include the inaugural Golden Skull Award presented to Horror Legend Tony Todd at a Special Presentation of CANDYMAN; an “Up All Night with Freddy” Closing Night marathon featuring all seven ELM STREET films presented overnight; and the unveiling of the Festival’s Virtual Program premiering 20 feature films
AN TAIBHSE, the first horror film produced entirely in the Irish language, screens at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest
Oddity is the scariest horror movie of 2024. It crushed the film festival circuit, drawing acclaim at SXSW, Overlook, BiFan, and Fantasia Fest. The director, Damian McCarthy, took some time to talk with The Scariest Things to tell us about how he crafted the surprise horror hit of the year.
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The Dead Thing is a slick, good looking film, but the story is a dull affair despite attempts at going for something sexy.