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Echoes: Why Is Horror the Most Untapped Genre in Lollywood?

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:01:02 -0500

Where horror films began in Lollywood, where they have gone, and what might keep them from going forward.

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Popcorn Frights 2026: MONSTROUS ME Rides Third Wave Among 72 Shorts

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:00:11 -0500

As August draws near, the frights are popping in Florida. The 12th Popcorn Frights Film Festival released its third wave of programming "for its 2026 edition," per an official release, "expanding an already monster-sized lineup with the world premiere of Ariel Baska's Monstrous Me, produced by Brea Grant and renowned filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, alongside an exceptional slate of world premieres, landmark restorations, and daring new short films from some of the most exciting voices working in genre cinema today." I appreciate that Popcorn Frights is shining a big spotlight on short films, which are always made by ambitious filmmakers who press onward, despite the limitations of time and, inevitably, budget. Read onward for their description: "Running August 6-16, Popcorn Frights' 11-day hybrid festival will present...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: TRISTES TROPIQUES, Lots of Blood, Little Reward

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0500

Roo (Tears in Chinese) was abandoned by his mother at an early age and taken into the care of a man he has only ever known as Master. Raised in the jungle with other discarded children, Roo was taught to be a killer, brought up to be a deadly arm of the group known as Tristes Tropiques. Years later, Roo is working at a coffee shop when JoJo, one of the other children in the group, shows up and tells him that Master has been assassinated. After the news was announced, rival gangs and criminal organizations throughout the city vie for control while an equally deadly group of assassins called the Kons linger in the dark. As bodies pile up and the truth...

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Now Streaming: HANNIBAL Returns

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Plus: 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and 'President Curtis.'

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Opening This Week: SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, I WANT YOUR SEX, THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Heading to cinemas: Unlikely people team up.

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FIGHTLAND Review: Strap On for a Wild Ride

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Howard Charles, Nicholas Pinnock, and Deborah Ayorinde star in the dynamic crime drama series from executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, debuting on Starz.

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Fantasia 2026 Review: CORPUS, Languid Queer Thriller Delivers a Killer Horror Payoff

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:35:00 -0500

Sayo photographs New York’s nightlife, dealing drugs to partygoers at clubs and generally stays out of trouble with the owners of those clubs with free samples. Life takes a spin when he learns that Vince, an old friend whose star is on the rise in Hollywood, is back in town. Sayo also happens to have a massive crush on Vince. Time moves slowly with each picture Sayo takes and it almost grinds to a halt when Vince shows up at the club that night. Old passions are rekindled; Sayo does not know if he is coming or going. He tries to keep distance between Vince and himself despite past desires igniting once again. Vince invites Sayo and their friend Ross to a party upstate,...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: OUR EFFED UP WORLD, Alice Maio Mackay's Hang Out Movie... With Aliens!

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:20:54 -0500

Australian wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay returns to the director’s chair for her eighth feature film, Our Effed Up World, celebrating its Canadian premiere at this year’s Fantasia. A science-fiction story about a group of young adults fighting off an alien invasion in the midst of life changing events that have already knocked them all off balance, Mackay has created an adrenaline spiked hang out movie that perhaps works better when it shifts its focus away from the danger. There was no one more important in Sherri’s (Sara Thompson) life than her grandmother, Grace (Kerry Armstrong), so when cancer claimed her hero, Sherri’s life suddenly turned grey. She spends her days making sure her workaholic scientist father, Hank (Scott Major), remembers to eat, having banal, unsatisfying...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY, It's Nazi Killin' Time Again

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:05:11 -0500

One of genre cinema’s most unexpected franchises expands beyond its humble roots in Jenn Wexler’s The Last Temptation of Becky. The titular teen with a serious attitude problem is off to Poland this time, when a Nazi scion with dreams of global domination comes across her radar. The action is just as bloody, but definitely a little sillier than its predecessors’ in this raucous revenge thriller. At the end of 2023’s The Wrath of Becky, our heroine (Lulu Wilson) was approached by CIA agent Kate Montana (Kate Siegel) to become the agency’s youngest specialist, an offer she accepted. We now find her several years later as the CIA’s most notorious problem child, barreling through intricately planned espionage missions with the grace of a bull in...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: BEASTS CLUTCHING AT STRAWS, A Sack Of Cash Causes Problems In This Black Comedy Thriller

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:45:40 -0500

A desperately unpopular streamer with a dementia-stricken mother, a crooked cop, a duplicitous femme fatale, and a sack full of money collide in director Jojo Hideo's Beasts Clutching at Straws, an adaptation of the Sone Keisuke novel previously filmed by Korean filmmaker Kim Yong-hoon in 2020. Kanji (Ouji Suzuka) works the reception desk at an internet cafe, but his real passion is streaming fresh content for a following of over a dozen local college students. While cleaning up a private booth after a mysterious patron skips the bill, he stumbles onto a sack full of cash, one hundred million yen to be exact. Being a dutiful employee, he puts it with the other items in the lost and found, but it isn't too long before...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: INSECTASY, Are You Into Bugs?

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:09:24 -0500

Sadie is horny. Really horny. She has let real life, either working at the walk-in-clinic as a receptionist, or hanging out with her friends, fade into the background like radio-static, only half awares and mostly filtered out. She only thinks about sex and bugs. Sex reinforced via the whisper sultry podcast she always has in her ear, and insects through the brightly lit macro-cinematography, extreme close ups of creepy crawlies peppered through the film. She can only get herself off by having crickets walking on her bare skin at the penultimate second, or three, before orgasm. (It is notable that the word bug can also mean mania.) She has presumably worked out the details on self pleasure, her kink, by containing the insects in...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: LEVITATING, Get Swept Up In This Ecstatic Vision Of Folk Cinema

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:30:15 -0500

The drums pound, the guitar drones, the flute splashes a chaotic layer of color over it all as the guru chants, the spirit addicts undulate, enraptured by their ecstatic trance, directed by the spirits of the Indonesian jungle. This vision of chaos that opens Wregas Bhanuteja’s magical realist folk fable, Levitating, sets the scene for what is one of Fantasia’s most eye-opening surprises of the year. A coming-of-age story about a young man following his dreams and the battle he fights to achieve them against all odds. A truly unique gem that utilizes familiar film tropes in a search for meaning against the pressures of modernization. Bayu (Angga Yunanda) is a young man with the weight of the world on his shoulders. His rural town...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: FERINE, A Stunning Feature Debut From Andrea Corsini

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:30:18 -0500

Motherhood is a beast in first time feature filmmaker Andrea Corsini’s lush Italian psychological horror stunner, Ferine, celebrating its international premiere at this year’s Fantasia. Bolstered by a captivating lead performance from Oddity’s Carolyn Bracken and an unforgettable score from the fresh out of retirement Pino Donaggio, Ferine is set to make waves on the festival circuit with its fearsome look at what it takes to be a mother. Art collector Irene (Bracken) is finally ready to leave the fast pace of the art world behind and settle into life as a mother. Unable to conceive on her own, she reaches out to Rosa (Paola Lavini) to arrange a private adoption at her secretive maternity clinic. The process doesn’t turn out exactly as Irene planned,...

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Fantasia 2026 Exclusive: CHAAR DIWAARI Trailer Examines The Creeping Feeling That The Walls Are Closing In

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:20:17 -0500

Celebrating its upcoming North American premiere on July 30th at the Fantasia International Film Festival is Syed Shadan's claustrophobic short film chiller, Chaar Diwaari (Four Walls). Premiering as part of the Fragments of Asia short film program at the festival, the film explores that creeping suspicion that the walls are closing in around you. Shadan is a seasoned filmmaker with a hanfdul of shorts under his belt who is making his Fantasia debut with this very relatable story of a young man who finds himself at the mercy of an apartment with a mind of its own. Does a place have a memory? Chaar Diwaari clearly thinks so. Indian indie stalwart Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur) and his frequent producer Ranjan Singh recently boarded the...

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Now Playing: HER PRIVATE HELL, SHEEP IN THE BOX, MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Our primary focus remains the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, but not all of us could make the trip this year, so instead we cast our eyes on what opened in movie theaters today. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey continues to dominate social media and online media coverage, and deservedly so. Beyond that very large elephant in the room, we hasten to point out that other worthy genre films are worth watching. The new releases are highlighted by new films by Nicolas Winding Refn and Hirokazu Kore-eda. Alternately, a serial killer classic by Michael Mann will be returning to select theaters in an undoubtedly chilling 4K restoration, as well as the intriguing Australian thriller Cruel Hands and a new take on a legendary puppet,...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: NIGHTBORN, A Mother's Dream Turned Folk Horror Nightmare

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:45:05 -0500

Saga’s (Seidi Haarla) blissful fantasies of motherhood are upended when her and her husband Jon’s (Rupert Grint) son turns out to be a bit more difficult than they were expecting in Hanna Bergholm’s sophomore feature, Nightborn. Following up on her 2022 Sundance selection, Hatching, Bergholm establishes herself as one of Europe’s most talented up and coming filmmakers with this duo about the unseen challenges of parenthood and the chaos they can bring. The baby crazy couple have decided to put their lives in the city behind them to move out to Saga’s grandmother’s cottage in the Finnish woods. Even in its current state, overtaken by the surrounding forest and barely held together by rotting wood, Saga is enamored. She sees the home she remembers from...

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Friday One Sheet: BRUNELLO

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:01:39 -0500

Books, Books, Books! The beige and paper tones of the poster for Brunello, the latest film from Giuseppe Tornatore are something to get lost in. The sheer volume of this poster is impressive in and of itself. A hybrid documentary on the famous fashion designer-philosopher, and the so-called "King of Cashmere" Brunello Cucinellii, from the director of the cinema classic Cinema Paradiso, is enough to get many into the cinema, and dropping this marvel of a one-sheet is brilliant icing on the cake. The title and text and credit block at the bottom has the good sense to stay out of the way of this image, and is tucked down in the shadows of the stacks of books. The poster was designed by the Federico...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: NIKO, All Night Pretentious Delight

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Cyber-punk adjacent, arthouse romance, pop-philosophical musing Niko debuts K-pop Girls' Generation member, Tiffany Young in the titular role as a woman who runs a business hiring herself out to comfort and talk to people who have locked themselves out of their apartment. The city is in some sort ongoing, but very loosely enforced, government curfew. The locksmiths are busy helping get people off the streets. Niko’s niche business is fine, but hardly booming, and she cannot continue to pay her bar tab or her rent. Even supplementing her income with a day job as a street vendor selling candy floss to passers by is not enough. In the moments between, she spends time drinking with her sad, but very hot and very French...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: YOU ARE THE FILM, A Meta-Cinema Romance That Tears a Hole in the Universe

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:02:09 -0500

As someone who typically goes to the movies on a Sunday night for the 10:30pm show, and typically to go watch the stranger side of cinema, I am often given a ‘private screening’ from the local Cineplex chain. Because, seriously, who else living in the suburbs would go see Terrence Malick's The New World, Paul Cox's Innocence, Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea, or Bruce McDonald's Pontypool at that odd hour? In short, I love being in a movie auditorium alone and having the place all to myself for just about any film. Clearly, I am not at all alone in this aspect, as Ueda Makoto, the writer of charming and inventive time loop films, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River, sets his directorial debut...

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SHEEP IN THE BOX Review: Tale of Not So Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:32:07 -0500

It is indeed a perilous fate to be a film festival darling. On the one hand, sure, you might have a standing invitation for your next work in one of the “Big Five”. The downside is that, after a while, everyone starts believing they know what this new work should and shouldn’t be, as they’ve come to expect certain things. It would seem that Hirokazu Koreeda, the author of Shoplifters and Monster, has become the latest victim of this phenomenon. His latest film, Sheep in the Box, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, has been met with mostly reserved or outright negative reviews, most of which cite the lack of originality and the absence of true emotion in the...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: PERMANENT DAMAGE, A Loosey-Goosey, Drug-Addled, Hanging-Out Thriller On Housing Insecurity

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:00 -0500

Reborn in the opening scene by tearing his way out of a black garbage bag after being tossed in the trash from a prison van, Tommy irrevocably changes his life through a chance encounter in a Dollarama, the house of poverty. Helping an old woman — appropriately named Mrs. Whynot — get home with her purchases. Once inside, Tommy takes on the role of her surrogate son, Donnie, and moves into her house, a dilapidated/hoarder Dartmouth rowhome, with an eccentric number of characters, and lots of detritus on the front lawn. Standing in the way of the demolition of the complex, or perhaps renovating it towards future gentrification, is aggro-arsehole, drug dealer, and would-be kingpin LL Plísek. He has a bumper sticker on his contractor truck...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: ANCESTRAL BEASTS, An Indigenous Creature Feature About Generational Trauma

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:00:05 -0500

Generational trauma manifests as a deadly creepy crawler in Tim Riedel’s debut feature, Ancestral Beasts, which just celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia. Set among the indigenous Métis community, the film is a glowing reminder of the festival’s commitment to not only Canadian film, but specifically indigenous films and filmmakers. Elyse Poitras (Morgan Holmstrom) is going through a real rough patch. The sudden and shocking loss of her mother amplified an already tense relationship with her toxic sister, Nikki (Darla Contois), sending Elyse running back to her family’s rural home, a place she hadn’t laid eyes on in years. What was intended to be a healing respite from the pressures of her new life turns sour when she discovers that she’s not the...

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Now Streaming: Nicholas Winding Refn, From PUSHER to COPENHAGEN COWBOY

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

With 'Her Private Hell' set to open this weekend, we look back at the director's distinguished career in genre cinema.

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Fantasia 2026 Review: TIGHT LETTUCE, Addiction Both Binds and Tears Families Apart

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

There are many kinds of addiction stories on film, from the invigorating buddy shenanigans of Transpotting to the stylish personal infernos of Requiem For A Dream to the gritty autobiographical redemption arc of The Basketball Diaries. Harrison Houde’s Tight Lettuce discovers a novel, more intimately Canadian character-driven narrative by way of a multi-generational family-on-hold tragicomedy. One that achieves a heartbreaking melancholy via the unrestrained joy and laughter, against the stark failures of its central character. Tooling around on his decalled moped on rural roads somewhere near the Ontario-Quebec border with a shit-eating grin on his face, seemingly without a care in the world, we meet Bodo in all his exuberant glory. An ex-roofer, ex-husband, and almost ex-father to his only child, Joel, Bodo’s dabbling with heroin...

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SMOKING BEHIND THE SUPERMARKET WITH YOU Review: Cigarettes Spark Uncertain Yet Smoldering, Troubling Romance

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:02:04 -0500

Crunchyroll's series takes a far different approach to the smoking habit, compared to Netflix's crass take in 'Chainsmoker Cat.'

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PURE SCUM: Australian Thriller Acquired by Chroma, Releases at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in August

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:30:00 -0500

After a drug-fueled car crash, two recently graduated private-school boys flee into downtown Melbourne, hoping to outrun the consequences. What begins as a night of excess and indulgence spirals out of control, exposing the dangerous entitlement beneath their privilege as the city closes in.

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SHEEP IN THE BOX Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda on the Future of AI Technology and Human Society

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

The science fiction drama stars Haruka Ayase and Daigo Yamamoto as a couple and Kuwaki Rimu as the humanoid son.

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS S4 Review: Reinvigorated, And It Feels So Good

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:00:03 -0500

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn lead the prequel series on a new series of jaunty adventures.

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CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH 4K Review: Anger and Desire in Post-War Japan

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0500

In western cinema, the 1950s and 1960s are often portrayed as a time of youth in revolt: the birth of a teenager as a particular cultural and social entity, and with it, the problems of education, social life, work, and integration into society, or resistance to that. But it wasn't just an issue of the west. Japan had its own situation around young people. The generation that grew up in the aftermath of World War Two and what that meant for Japan, often found themselves at odds with their parents and those in power. And many filmmakers responded with stories of that generation. Criterion Collection has reissued one of the key films of that era with a new 4K restoration, Cruel Story of Youth. Oshima Nagisa's...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: PENNY LANE IS DEAD Is Not For The Weak Of Heart

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:49:45 -0500

A celebratory girls’ night at the family beach house devolves into a night of unrelenting, brutal terror in Penny Lane is Dead, the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Mia’Kate Russell. A blood-soaked throwback to the wild days of ‘80s Ozploitation, this Adelaide set revenge thriller pulls no punches in delivering one of the meanest, grimiest, most nihilistic entries in the rape-revenge canon in recent years. Prepare yourselves for this one, it’s not for the weak of heart. Penny Lane (Bailey Spalding) just got into university and she has convinced her mother to let her and her friends, the Joan Jett-coded rough and tumble, Toni (Tahlee Fereday) and big softie Amy (Alexandra Jensen), use the family cottage for an evening of low-key fun. Unfortunately, they won’t...

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BUDDY: Second Teaser, Official Poster & COMIC-CON Event Info!

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:30:00 -0500

Inside the colorful world of "It's Buddy!", a group of children spend their days singing, dancing, and helping Buddy spread happiness. But when one child refuses to play along, Buddy is not pleased and cracks begin to appear in this seemingly perfect world.

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THE DINK Review: Hit It Slow and Soft, But Funny

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris star in Apple TV's pickleball comedy from director Josh Greenbaum ('Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar').

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THE PATRIOT, ERASER, and More Action-Heavy Arrivals to Home Video

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

New home video releases of action films headlined by Schwarzenegger, Gibson, Berenger, and Beetz!

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Shanghai 2026 Interview: 9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse on His Debut Feature and Thai Independent Cinema

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Independent Thai cinema has been rising on the international festival circuit in recent years. Following the success of A Useful Ghost in 2025, Thai independent filmmaker and longtime collaborator of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sompot Chidgasornpongse, premiered his feature debut, 9 Temples to Heaven, in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes earlier this year. The film later continued its festival run at the Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Goblet Awards for Best Director and Best Actor in the Asian New Talent section. In Shanghai, Screen Anarchy sat down with Sompot to discuss the family memories that inspired this deeply personal and spiritual debut. We also talked about religious culture in Thailand, the current state of Thailand's independent film scene, and the challenges...

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Echoes: JAVED IQBAL, The Netflix-Worthy Film Pakistan Already Had

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:02:01 -0500

A recent conversation in Pakistan has stirred concerns over Pakistani content being valuable enough to be allowed to stream on Netflix. Some local stars debated among themselves that Pakistani content is not ready to meet the standards of global streaming giants, due to the absence of widely relatable narratives or technical expertise. One of the films that became a debate even before its release, however, somehow matches the content style that Netflix adopted in its documentaries years ago. Just like Taxali Gate (2024), Javed Iqbal: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer (2022) is a bold directorial endeavor from Abu Aleeha, which was banned two days before its scheduled release in theaters, despite initially getting censor approval. After a preview screening in Karachi, the government's...

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Watch Exclusive DEMON HUNTERS Clips Before Action / Horror / Comedy / Romance Hits VOD

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:00:03 -0500

JC Lin and Arjan Bajwa star in director Mei-Juin Che's action / horror / comedy / romance hit from Taiwan and India, heading to VOD on August 7.

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Shudder in August: HELLCAT, PENNY LANE IS DEAD, THE YETI & BUFFER INFINITY

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:30:00 -0500

The folks at Shudder have revealed their lineups of films, watch parties and repertory titles for the month of August. Four Shudder Originals will premiere during the month. The other day we shared the trailer for horror flick, Hellcat. Today Shudder announced that they picked up Ozploitation homage, Penny Lane is Dead. Creature feature The Yeti and the bewlidering buy highly amusing Buffet Infinity join the month's lineup. Lots of possession flicks, a couple entries from the Tales From the Crypt series, and a harrowing nuclear holocaust story that still freaks people out to this day. It's all in the following announcement. August 2026 Programming Highlights Here's what's coming to Shudder next month! FILMS HELLCAT Shudder...

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TALES OF THE WILD WEST: COLLECTION TWO Celebrates Five Underseen Westerns from the 60s and 70s

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Charlton Heston, William Holden, and Kirk Douglas headline five memorable but underseen Westerns.

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Opening This Week: HER PRIVATE HELL by NWR, SHEEP IN THE BOX by Kore-eda, MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT by Mann

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Cruel Hands' and 'Pinocchio Unstrung.'

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Fantasia 2026 Review: ATTACK ON PARADISE, A Belgian Single Setting Siege Story With Heart

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:30:39 -0500

In a dystopic corner of urban Antwerp stands Paradise, a ten-story apartment block that houses some of the baddest dudes and dudettes in all of Belgium. Packed to the gills with drug hustlers, arms dealers, illicit brothels, and every other brand of seedy, dangerous commerce you can imagine, Paradise is a thorn in the side of the authorities and the time has come to bring it all down. Unfortunately for Suleyman (Saïd Boumazoughe), it is also home to an ailing mother he hasn’t seen in seven years after he was arrested for killing a cop in a contentious confrontation while bringing home her diabetes medication late one night. The day that Suleyman returns to Paradise is also unfortunately the day that Belgian special forces have...

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AFTER DARK FOUR Collects Six Neo-Noir Gems from the 1990s

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

New boxset featuring six noir classics including 'Unlawful Entry' in its 4K debut and the highly underrated remake of 'The Getaway.'

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PENNY LANE IS DEAD: Shudder Acquires Homage to 80s Ozploitation Horror Flicks

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:30:00 -0500

Set on a hot summer's night in 1986 Australia, 17-year old Penny Lane is celebrating getting into college with her longtime girlfriends. After Penny's jealous and troubled cousin decides a cruel prank is in order, what begins as a thoughtless spiked cupcake game spirals into a night of bloodshed and revenge.

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PRESIDENT CURTIS Review: This Is an Elected Official I Can Support

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:10 -0500

Keith David, Stephanie Beatriz, and Jim Rash star in the new 'Rick and Morty' spin-off series from co-creators Dan Harmon and James Siciliano.

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Sound And Vision: AG Rojas

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:10 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss the works of AG Rojas. AG Rojas is a director I long wanted to talk about, but per my own set rules I couldn't, as he only released music videos. And for a Sound and Vision there needs to be a cinematic counterpoint to lynchpin the whole article on. Luckily, last year AG Rojas released a mid-length feature called Pare De Sufrir, that is now available for everyone to see on its own website. Pare de Sufrir is vintage AG Rojas. If I had to describe his style, I would call it Magical Neo-realism. Like neo-realism, AG Rojas' films are socially conscious, often looking...

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EVIL FOLLOWS Trailer: What's in the Box? Possession Horror to Premiere on BloodStream Next Month (Exclusive)

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500

A husband's fight to save his wife from a demonic possession that began the moment the dybbuk box chose her as its next host.

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VALLEY OF THE HORNTAK Teaser: Vernon Wells And Kathleen Kinmont Star in Folk Horror

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500

During their search in the woods for a missing boy, an estranged father and son encounter a sinister cult that worships mind and flesh altering creatures.

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MOTELX 2026: More International Titles Added, a Block of Iron Curtain Horror, And Shorts Programmes Announced

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0500

The twentieth edition of MOTELX is coming in September. The Lisbon-based genre festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary so the festival has announced the first ten international titles in the program this year. Joining the previously announced Fuck My Son!, Game, AnyMart and Species (Sanguine) are: The Birthday Party, Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, Our Effed Up World, One Spoon of Chocolate, The Furious, and Poultry Farm. One of the things that we come to expect from MOTELX is eclectic programming and this year they have a special block of programming called Lost in Europe: Horror Behind the Iron Curtain which includes horror films made in eastern bloc countries during the Cold War. The most famous inclusion of all has to be Andrzej Żuławski's Possession, starring the late...

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Karlovy Vary 2026 Review: 3 WEEKS AFTER Turns High-School Cruelty Into Social Horror

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:17:03 -0500

Miroslav Terzić's high-school drama pairs Ruben Östlund's austere formalism with Hanekean social horror in a study of adolescent cruelty and social exclusion, punctuated by unexpected mannerist flourishes.

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Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: Sharon Horgan on BAD SISTERS, Global TV and the Lure of Cinema

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

The writer, actress and producer discusses the contracting television market, the economics of internationally financed comedy and why commercial calculations must stay out of the writing room.

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Fantasia 2026 Review: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, Bold Queer Exploration

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:32:11 -0500

Opening with flesh and blood, Jane Schoenbrun's latest work, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is a continuation of the queer exploration found in their previous films, We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, yet more as a bold, confrontational breakthrough. Hannah Einbinder plays Kris, a talented young filmmaker and devoted fan of the cult horror franchise ‘Camp Miasma’, who is directing its latest remake and finally living out her dream. Her journey leads her to Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), the actress who played the ‘final girl’ in the original film and is still living in the very house where it was shot. Sitting by the fireplace, sharing stories and KFC, the two form a tender connection through...

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