There was a time when people lived their lives according to fables, myths, and superstitions. Modern science has almost universally...
I’m going to assume you’ve seen Ridley Scott’s Alien, but have you seen Ridley Scott’s Alien reenacted by the bus...
The Pierce brothers The Wretched recently held it’s Word Premiere at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival, introducing the world to new Witchy rules and Witchy powers. “The vampire,” Brett Pierce shares with us, “has been developing over so long” with very specific strengths and weaknesses, but the traditional Witch is not a monster...
The Ranger is an unabashedly fun and clever new slasher from director Jenn Wexler. The film has been making waves...
It might surprise you to learn that the goriest movie at the virtual Nightstream Film Festival was a movie comprised...
The Brothers Grimm and the like laid the groundwork for modern storytelling. From damsels in distress to wicked parental figures who sacrificed their own young, these antique fables have shaped today’s narratives in countless ways. Although their undiluted forms can be entirely too gruesome for younger listeners, these often morbid...
Perhaps one of the oddest films we’ve seen at this years Fantastic Fest is co-writer/director Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns). This film is...
The new Indian horror-fantasy Tumbbad is a dark and dangerous story of one man’s greed for a fallen god’s gold. Like all men...
Kate Dolan’s debut feature You Are Not My Mother world premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, creeping out the unsuspecting Midnight Madness crowd. The film follows a young girl who suspects that her mentally ill mother might have been replaced by a monster. Set in Ireland, in the days leading...
Crime in Mexico is no joke. In the past 10 years, roughly 160,000 have died in drug-related violence and more...
“She’s actually evil. Not ‘high school’ evil.” We are nearing the end of February here at Nightmare on Film Street,...
One of my favourite films from the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival is finally premiering as a Shudder exclusive. All The Moons (or in Basque, Ilargi Guztiak) is a dramatic fairy tale set in Spain near the end of the 19th century. It is the sophomore feature from Spanish director Igor...