The amazing Wendy Lloyd invited me to be a guest on Open 2 Criticism, discussing the rise of the influencer, the never-ending death of the critic, and the relationship of both with the distributor https://podfollow.com/1675...
01:30 PM - Apr 26, 2024
"This is horror at its most probing, subversive and socially aware, with a truly harrowing ending that reveals the dangers of misdirected fear and prejudice." Romero's genuinely game-changing NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) screens 9.45pm tonight at Salem Horror Fest
04:24 AM - Apr 26, 2024
"Federico Zampaglione’s gory gothic delves deep into Italian cinema past to restore and resurrect a particular kind of grotesquery": Federico Zampaglione's THE WELL (2023) screens 00:45 tomorrow morning at Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (HÕFF)
04:19 AM - Apr 26, 2024
"paranormal prequel gets three outsiders moving to a rural community's surreal beat in Eighties Indonesia":
Kimo Stamboel's DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS (BADARAWUHI DI DESA PENARI, 2024) is in select US theatres from today via Lionsgate
Kimo Stamboel's DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS (BADARAWUHI DI DESA PENARI, 2024) is in select US theatres from today via Lionsgate
04:09 AM - Apr 26, 2024
"an apartment complex in the Parisian banlieue aggressively invaded by a terrifying foreign species": Sébastien Vanicek’s spidery feature debut INFESTED (VERMINES, 2023) formicates its way onto Shudder from today https://projectedfigures.c...
03:56 AM - Apr 26, 2024
Locked in with the patriarchy: Greg Swinson & Ryan Thiessen's HUNT HER, KILL HER (2022) "is a lean, taut, tense thriller in which male predators had better prey."
Screens 10.30pm tonight in a UK cinemas double bill (with MALUM) via Screenbound / Blue Dolphin
Screens 10.30pm tonight in a UK cinemas double bill (with MALUM) via Screenbound / Blue Dolphin
03:51 AM - Apr 26, 2024
With the psychological tragedy MALUM (2023), Anthony DiBlasi "updates the haunted police station of his own LAST SHIFT to the #blacklivesmatter era". Screens 10.30pm tonight in a UK cinemas double-feature (with HUNT HER KILL HER) via Screenbound Entertainment / Blue Dolphin
03:45 AM - Apr 26, 2024
Fungi to be with: Corin Hardy's nature's revenger THE HALLOW (2015) is "an inventive ecological variant on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, reconfiguring Celtic folklore for a more rationalist age". Screens 9pm tonight on NYX UK https://projectedfigures.c...
03:35 AM - Apr 26, 2024
"George Miller's mad, maximalist genre juggernaut allegorises patriarchy's dead end as a spectacular car chase": MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) screens 9pm tonight at BFI IMAX https://projectedfigures.c...
03:30 AM - Apr 26, 2024
"Moritz Mohr’s revenge flick conceals a home truth beneath brutal action and surreal comedy in a pure-genre dystopia": BOY KILLS WORLD (2023) in UK/Irish cinemas from today via Signature Entertainment. Review for SciFiNow
03:09 AM - Apr 26, 2024
"Udo Flohr’s poisonous period drama contrasts two women struggling to make their mark in the toxic patriarchy of nineteenth-century Bremen": serial-killer drama EFFIGY: POISON AND THE CITY (EFFIGIE – DAS GIFT UND DIE STADT, 2019)
03:09 AM - Apr 26, 2024
Ghost(re)watch: Dominic O’Neill’s feature debut HAUNTED ULSTER LIVE (2023) "purports to be a live television broadcast from a haunted house over Halloween in 1998". Screens 5pm today at Fantaspoa https://projectedfigures.c...
02:22 AM - Apr 25, 2024
"myth and modernity wash violently against each other in a fragile coastal utopia": C.j. 'Fiery' Obasi's shimmering West African parable MAMI WATA (2023) re-screens 2.45pm today at Fantaspoa https://projectedfigures.c...
02:17 AM - Apr 25, 2024
"a Carpenter-esque siege survival thriller set in an isolated Sheriff's Office": Will Gilbey's feature debut JERICHO RIDGE (2023) in UK/Irish cinemas from today via The Movie Partnership https://projectedfigures.c...
02:11 AM - Apr 25, 2024
"paranormal prequel gets three outsiders moving to a rural community's surreal beat in Eighties Indonesia": Kimo Stamboel's DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS (BADARAWUHI DI DESA PENARI, 2024) is in select US theatres from this Friday via Lionsgate
06:54 AM - Apr 24, 2024
Video nasty habit: Giulio Berruti's giallo-esque KILLER NUN (1979) is now available uncut on region-free Blu-ray (in a new restored 1080p encode) from Shameless Films https://projectedfigures.c...
06:08 AM - Apr 24, 2024
"myth and modernity wash violently against each other in a fragile coastal utopia": C.j. 'Fiery' Obasi's shimmering West African parable MAMI WATA (2023) screens 8.30pm tonight at Fantaspoa https://projectedfigures.c...
02:27 AM - Apr 24, 2024
Legless: Jesse Thomas Cook’s succession sci-fi comedy THE HYPERBOREAN (2023), written by and starring PONTYPOOL's Tony Burgess, "confronts a privileged family with its own drunken dysfunction". Screens 3.30pm today at Fantaspoa https://projectedfigures.c...
02:09 AM - Apr 24, 2024
The adolescent rites de passage in RAW (2016) expose the accommodations we all have to make with our darker appetites. Julia Ducournau's extraordinary debut screens 8pm tonight as part of Femme Fatalities at Gateway Film Center https://projectedfigures.c...
02:04 AM - Apr 24, 2024
"Moritz Mohr’s revenge flick conceals a home truth beneath brutal action and surreal comedy in a pure-genre dystopia": BOY KILLS WORLD (2023) will be in UK/Irish cinemas from this Friday via Signature Entertainment Review for SciFiNow
02:10 PM - Apr 23, 2024
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Funerary Wales: Kelly Holmes' unnerving period short THE SIN-EATER (2024) "marks a grieving, guilt-ridden new mother with her own anxiety-riddled alienation"
https://projectedfigures.c...
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12:58 PM - Apr 23, 2024
FACELESS AFTER DARK re-screens 2.45pm today at Fantaspoa
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Anton Bitel @AntBitSend in the clowns: Raymond Wood’s metacinematic revenge psycho-slasher FACELESS AFTER DARK (2023) "smartly subverts the gendered norms of Hollywood horror", with a phenomenal performance from TERRIFIER star Jenna Kanell. Screens 6.15pm at Fantaspoa04:37 AM - Apr 21, 2024
02:08 AM - Apr 23, 2024
THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR re-screens 1pm today at Fantaspoa
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Anton Bitel @AntBit"comic creature feature sends its lonely, flawed characters hunting a dinosaur – and what is missing from their lives": Mike Hermosa's Spielbergian spoof THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR (2023) screens 8.30pm tonight at Fantaspoa https://projectedfigures.c...05:35 AM - Apr 20, 2024
02:05 AM - Apr 23, 2024
"Jorge Ameer’s apocalyptic sci-fi satire shows an America, manipulated by politicians and media alike, unable to see the wood for the trees": the low-budget Breen-esque ALTERED PERCEPTIONS (2023) is on DVD, Blu & digital in US from today
02:02 AM - Apr 23, 2024
"an abused actress auditions as Satanic serial killer": as its heroine proves to be the sum of her parts, Andrew de Burgh’s hallucinatory Hollywood horror THE SEDUCTRESS FROM HELL (2024) open itself to more than one reading https://projectedfigures.c...
03:46 PM - Apr 22, 2024
Big news! A 6-disc Blu-ray set dedicated to Peter Strickland is coming this Summer from Curzon Film, including all his features, over a dozen short films (one brand new), plus many extras including essays from Strickland himself, Fatma Mohamed and me. Pre-order here:
01:55 PM - Apr 22, 2024
"Peter Medak’s modern yet old-fashioned gothic places a decent, damaged man between dynastic conspiracy and supernatural vendetta." The superb THE CHANGELING (1980) is on Shudder (US) from today. George C. Scott ftw! https://projectedfigures.c...
03:08 AM - Apr 22, 2024
“Look closely, I missed it the first time. It’s gonna blow your mind. Really heavy”: Ti West's ghost story/psychodrama THE INNKEEPERS (2011) shines on a budget. On Shudder (US) from today
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https://projectedfigures.c...
02:53 AM - Apr 22, 2024
Nostalgia fester: Ti West’s slow-burn chiller THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009) "lovingly recreates the Satanic panic of the Eighties". On Shudder (US) from today https://projectedfigures.c...
02:46 AM - Apr 22, 2024
"a stylised succession saga of murder and madness, and a romantic melodrama with claws": Paul Leni's THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) on Blu-ray from today via Eureka Entertainment. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
02:17 AM - Apr 22, 2024
