You may never make friends on vacation again after sitting through Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil. What begins as a pleasant friendly connection with strangers slowly becomes a sinister, irreversible mistake in this deep dark Danish thriller. Celebrating its World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Speak No Evil has...
Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence features some pretty elaborate deaths, tailor-made for the Midnight Madness crowd. Adapted from his short Conductor, the...
Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before follows a woman’s obsessive grief and how her desire to reconnect with her deceased daughter upends the lives of everyone around her. It’s a twisting tale that holds its “supernatural” elements close to the chest, forever toying with the possibility of reincarnation. Unlike Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, Here Before never...
As Violation premiered at TIFF 2020 and Sundance 2021, co-directors Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer revealed the inspiration for their debut feature....
Nyla Innuksuk’s Slash/Back is an alien-infested sci-fi thriller set in a remote Innuit village of Nunavut, Canada. After encountering an alien creature...
A harmless internet prank gets out of hand real fast in Maureen Bharoocha’s dark comedy The Prank. Celebrating its World Premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival The Prank is a coming-of-age tale, a high school hijinks flick, and a murder mystery all rolled up into one silly story. I think we...
Three hired guns find themselves in over their heads after a routine rescue mission goes from bad to worse in Jean Luc Herbulot’s Saloum. It’s a story filled with twists and turns and a gripping, manic energy that mashes up nearly all of your favorite genres. If you strung all its...