On March 12, when film enthusiasts gather for the 95th Academy Awards, the most prestigious films in Hollywood will be...
The 2022 Overlook Film Festival returns to historic New Orleans, Louisiana beginning June 2nd for a 4-day weekend of weird...
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Analog-obsessed modern horror maestro Scott Derrickson is back from his brief jaunt in the Marvel universe with The Black Phone. This eerie tale of missing children (spoiler alert: they dead) is adapted from the Joe Hill short shorty of the same name and co-written by frequent collaborators Derrickson & C....
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Takahide Hori’s Junk Head first played at the Fantasia International Film Festival back in 2017, with a much longer and...
Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night was the sleeper hit of the 2019 Overlook Film Festival. While the film celebrated...
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Which came first, Jaws or the summer monster movie? Of course, a film historian would point out that Jaws was the first really big monster movie intended for warm weather and drive-ins, but haven’t we known that long before 1975? There’s something so natural, so right about watching Human Vs....
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Sacrifice (2021), written and directed by Andy Collier and Toor Mian, takes a subtle approach to slow-burn folk horror in...
Just in time for Halloween comes a comic book movie about becoming possessed by an entity that turns you into...
For decades now Mortal Kombat fans have been clamoring for an r-rated film adaptation that does the video game justice. That’s no easy feat and even producer Todd Garner is quick to admit that there’s no way the MPAA would allow the full brutality of those video games on movie...
When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how...
DESCRIPTION: Are you suffering from a Halloween Hangover? Election woes got you down? Take a vacation from those real-world horrors...
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Poe is a hard nut to crack. An enigmatic figure of melancholic prose with a life (and death) as dark and mysterious as the tales he wove, is a coveted character in modern-day storytelling; whether to emulate or downright fictionalize. Films have attempted to insert an imagined Edgar Allan Poe...
