Sketch comedian turned horror filmmaker Curry Barker (Milk & Serial) wrings blood-curdling terror from a classic Monkey’s Paw wish fulfillment scenario in Obsession. A simple, well-trodden...
Video games’ capabilities of immersing players directly in their horror rarely translate evenly to film. Even more so when the video game in question can be...
The monster lurking under the bed is real and hungry in “Hannibal” creator Bryan Fuller’s charming feature directorial debut, Dust Bunny. It’s an imaginative bedtime story...
You’ll have to wait until December to discover just how adorable the man-eating monster is in writer/director Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, but the filmmaker’s breakdown of...
The joke is literally in the title of writer/director Todd Rohal’s X-rated gross-out exploitation comedy, Fuck My Son! Described as a throwback to the films of...
Writer/Director duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli (Violation) evoke the psychological unravelings of ’70s films like Robert Altman’s Images and Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now in...
Novelist Mary Shelley translated her complicated relationships with her family to her seminal Gothic literary masterpiece, Frankenstein, reflected in the central relationship between a cruel scientist...
In Aleksandar Radivojević‘s Karmadonna, God is real and he’s extremely displeased with humanity. Prone to profane rants and bloody vengeance, the deity manifests exclusively as a...
Nothing stays buried in director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan)’s latest, The Ugly. The film begins rather innocuously as television producer Kim Su-jin (Han Ji-hyeon) interviews...
The job market is bleak, and in No Other Choice, the latest from visionary filmmaker Park Chan-wook, it’s downright lethal. A layoff leads to murder in...
Writer/Director Rian Johnson leaves behind the sunny beaches of Glass Onion for a locked room mystery in Benoit Blanc’s third outing, Wake Up Dead Man: A...
There’s a mystery at the heart of Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At The Place of Ghosts), a Canadian Indigenous thriller about a pair of Mi’kmaw brothers who have been...
The Man In My Basement begins with an intriguing proposition: if you were in a tight financial position and a rich eccentric showed up, essentially offering...
The Toronto International Film Festival announced today the TIFF 2025 selections for the highly regarded Midnight Madness program, its signature slate of wicked wonders that are sure to...
The Toronto International Film Festival announced today the TIFF 2024 selections for the highly regarded Midnight Madness program, which will open with the North American Premiere of...
There’s nothing quite like a throwback film – whether it’s driven by nostalgia or executed as a creative exercise, it’s fun to see how creatives handle...
The premise of writer/director Jason Yu’s feature debut Sleep is great. Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) are expecting parents living in an apartment with...
An entire horror franchise is dedicated to Freddy Krueger, a boogeyman who corners his prey in their own dreams to seek revenge against their parents for...
There’s an air of sad desperation that hangs over Working Class Goes to Hell. Things have been rough in this unnamed Serbian town since a fire...
Writer/Director Demián Rugna broke onto the horror scene with 2017’s aptly titled Terrified (Aterrados), a paranormal tour de force of shocking imagery and genuine scares. Rugna continues that streak with...
Harmony Korine has always been a provocateur, so it’s hardly surprising that his latest film, Aggro Dr1ft, is unconventional. The 80-minute feature is filmed entirely in...
Writer/director Meshal Aljaser’s NAGA opens with a moment of shocking violence: in 1970, a man with a gun moves through the halls of a hospital, searching...
Slasher riffs and parodies date back nearly as long as slashers themselves, dissecting the enduring tropes and familiar formulas. In Hell of a Summer, first-time directors/writers Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger...
Vengeance and action go hand in hand, with revenge frequently serving as the central motivator for a single action hero to punch and slice their way...
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