I’ll admit, other than appreciating the odd festival where you’ll find me buzzing in the corner of a beer tent,...
Listen up Folk Horror fans! There’s a new mythic monster in town calling out to you from those dark woods...
It’s that time of the month, readers. Dust off your battlevest, knock back that 40 oz, and settle in for another edition of Gut The Punks! A monthly column devoted to genre cinema with a loose association to punk rock, heavy metal or any other counterculture, set to a loud,...
Kate Dolan’s debut feature You Are Not My Mother world premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, creeping out the unsuspecting...
DESCRIPTION: Is it getting hot in here, or is it just that misguided police officer lost on an island of...
Two men go into space but three come back in Egor Abramenko’s atmospheric sci-fi horror Sputnik. It’s an alien invasion film of a different variety, opting to infiltrate Earth by hiding inside one man rather than sending an army of spaceships to decimate our planet one monument at a time....
Incorporating religious themes within cinematic narratives has become so widely used, it can easily go unnoticed. Horror may be the...
Sacrifice (2021), written and directed by Andy Collier and Toor Mian, takes a subtle approach to slow-burn folk horror in...
What comes to mind when you think of Hansel and Gretel? Is it crumbs of bread making a path through the forest? Is it a welcoming little house found deep within the woods? Is it two lost, plump children? Is it a hunchbacked old woman stirring a pot? Is it...
If there is any universal notion that proves to be wholly unerring it is that you cannot escape the past....
This review was originally published as part of our 2021 Fantasia Film Festival coverage. Filmmaking is a family affair for...
I wasn’t aware of the prominence of Christianity in South Korea, but according to a quick Google search, close to a third of the population identify as Christians. The question came up when watching Kim Joo-hwan’s The Divine Fury, a religious action thriller about a man who loses his faith,...