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VS FANTASTIC! 2025: Blood Window Rebrands, Opens Call For Entries
The folks at Ventana Sur have sent out word that their genre program, VS - FANTASTIC!, is now accepting submissions for this year's program. Highlight projects from the fantastic genres - horror, sci-fi, fantasy, etc - the program offers two...
NIGHT OF THE REAPER: Trailer & Poster Debut For 80s Throwback Slasher
Brandon Christensen's throwback slasher, Night of the Reaper, starts streaming on Shudder on September 19th. Today, we have the poster and trailer debut for the flick, along with a large gallery of images from the production. In the heart...
CAIRO STATION Blu-ray Review: An Egyptian Classic Gets the Proper Treatment
It's impossible for any one film to complete define a particular country at a specific moment in time. Countries and cultures are too vast, too multiple, too varied to be quantified in 90 minutes. But a film can capture a...
Locarno 2025 Review: PHANTOMS OF JULY Excavates Local Mythology Through Soft Melancholy and Mundane Surrealism
German director Julian Radlmaier shifts from overt satire to a more lyrical mode, delivering a psychogeographic portrait of precarious lives and fleeting solidarities in a post-socialist landscape.
Locarno 2025 Review: DON'T LET THE SUN Envisions a Sociological Dystopia of Emotional Surrogacy and Climatic Disconnection
Jacqueline Zünd´s fiction debut, set in a nocturnal world rendered uninhabitable by climate collapse, follows a professional emotional surrogate whose carefully managed detachment begins to unravel when he's hired to play the father of a withdrawn young girl.
Locarno 2025 Industry: Canada Opens Doors to Flexible Co-Production and Fresh Funding Pathways
Canada used its spotlight at Locarno Pro to signal that international co-production is no longer an exception but a growing norm, backed by modernized treaties, robust financing, and globally competitive tax incentives.
SILVER SCREAMERS Exclusive Clip: Getting Their Hands Dirty, Their Vocal Chords Ready, For The Sake of Horror
It was announced today that Sean Cisterna's documentary, Silver Screamers, will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. Silver Screamers is a heartwarming and spine-tingling documentary that follows a group of spirited senior citizens as they embark on an...
BAD HAIRCUT: Your First Look at Debut Horror Comedy From Kyle Misak to Premiere at Fantastic Fest
Hot off yesterday's announcement that it will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest next month, we have your first look at Bad Haircut the debut horror comedy from Michigan filmmaker Kyle Misak. When a college kid goes to...
THE HAUNTED FOREST Trailer: It is All Fun And Games Until Someone Hands You a Chainsaw With The Chain Still Attached
When Zach, a high-school senior obsessed with all things horror and Halloween, goes to work at his cousin's famous "haunted forest" attraction, a series of real-life killings makes him question his devotion to the world of the macabre...
Locarno 2025 Industry: Story Lab Showcases New Projects Merging Place, Politics, and Hybrid Storytelling
New generation of filmmakers unveiled projects that blur fiction and documentary, reclaim overlooked histories, and probe urgent social questions, offering international partners early access to bold, globally resonant storytelling at Locarno's Story Lab Pitching Session.
SCARED SHITLESS: Canadian Horror Comedy Picked up by Blue Fox Entertainment For Digital Release
Honestly, we are a bit surprised it has taken this long for Vivieno Caldinelli's gross-out horror comedy Scared Shitless to find a home here on home soil. Scared Shitless premiered at last year's Fantasia Film Festival where our own...
Locarno 2025 Review: FANTASY Merges Coming of Age and Social Drama on Identity Through a Music Video Aesthetics
Slovenian director Kukla creates an intimate exploration of gender fluidity and self-discovery within the framework of a coming-of-age tale set in the contemporary Balkans in her fiction debut.
Locarno 2025 Industry: Ed Guiney and Radu Jude on Trust, Conflict, and Resisting the Bigger-Is-Better Trap
Producer Ed Guiney and director Radu Jude offered international film professionals a candid set of lessons on how trust, transparency, and the creative use of constraints can define, and ultimately strengthen, the producer-director relationship.
SILENCE: An Introduction to Eduardo Casanova's Debut Series Before Fantastic Fest U.S. Premiere
Eduardo Casanova, the evocative director of a ScreenAnarchy favorite, La Piedad/La Pieta, has set out unto the World their new project, Silence. Silence reimagines the vampire myth to explore queer identity, HIV stigma, and social silence, spanning the Black...
HIGHEST 2 LOWEST Review: Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Reunite for Modern Update of Akira Kurosawa's Classic Crime-Thriller
Spike Lee (Inside Man, Malcolm X, Mo’Better Blues) and Denzel Washington’s (Gladiator II, The Equalizer series, The Tragedy of Macbeth) first collaboration in almost 20 years and their fifth overall, Highest 2 Lowest, masterfully reinterprets and reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s seminal...
Popcorn Frights 2025: F*CKTOYS, QUEENS OF THE DEAD Lead Award Winners
Genre fans, rejoice! The 11th edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival has bestowed Annapurna Sriram's "pastel-slashed" horror comedy Fucktoys with its Jury Prize for Best Feature Film. Several other awards were also announced. According to the official statement: "The...
Locarno 2025 Review: IRKALLA: GILGAMESH'S DREAM Confronts Iraq's Haunted Present Through Myth, Memory and Children as Collateral Damage
Director Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji constructs a fragmented, myth-infused portrait of post-ISIS Baghdad, where the traumas of a lost generation unfold through the eyes of a silent child wandering between memory, violence, and ancient legend.
Locarno 2025 Review: SOLOMAMMA Fuses Arthouse Intimacy with Genre-Inflected Reflections on Single Motherhood
Norwegian director Janicke Askevold offers a restrained yet layered exploration of solo motherhood, merging Scandinavian arthouse sensibilities with subtle genre elements to examine shifting family dynamics in contemporary society.
Shudder in September: Highlights Include GUTS & GLORY, DANGEROUS ANIMALS, NIGHT OF THE REAPER and More!
With Summer nearing an end and the routine of life resuming, respite may be found in Shudder's lineup for September. The big one is Sean Byrne's horror flick, Dangerous Animals, so big that only subscribers in the U.S. will...