Being queer is pretty cool, but also pretty exhausting. As you search to find yourself in film, television, books, and...
Gut the Punks! is a monthly dissection of genre film with some loose connection to punk rock music and culture....
In Sao Paulo, a city already rife with poverty, death and corruption, an ancient evil will be awakened, bringing destruction upon the favelas. Directed by Kapel Furman and Armando Fonseca, the action-packed Brazilian supernatural slasher Skull: The Mask (originally titled Skull: A Máscara De Anhangá) had its World Premiere at...
Joining prime examples of the power of good filmmaking is director Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo, a film with a truly bizarre...
Bringing back a beloved series like Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone is bound to be met with mixed reviews. Anyone...
While horror has delved into the subconscious waters of our dreams many times before, director Anthony Scott Burns (Our House) manages to pull off a unique take on the subject in his latest film, Come True. The atmospheric sci-fi horror film celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia Film...
It’s a Haunting on Film Street this month at NOFS. We’re talking poltergeists, haunted houses and evil spirits. At first,...
This month at Nightmare On Film Street, we’re nearing the End of Days. Like many tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts, I’ve...
Sometimes all that’s needed to bring new energy to a well-trod genre is to inject some deceptively simple innovation into it. In the case of haunted house films, the subgenre has been explored and re-explored in horror until it would seem we’ve seen every possible variation several times over. More...
Fellow NOFS contributor Dave Richards described PG: Psycho Goreman to me as “E.T. meets Gwar,” which I have to say...
[Editor’s Note: Welcome back, Fiends! If you haven’t already read Chris’s Poor Decisions of Polarizing Remakes – Part One, go...
[Sundance 2021 Review] Analog Era Love Letter CENSOR Blurs The Lines Between Video Nasty and Reality
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight opener Censor takes viewers beyond the cold, grey world of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain into the vibrant, violent world of the Video Nasties. As a North American, “Video Nasties” were something I didn’t learn about until well after the British censorship craze has cooled. Heck,...