"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"
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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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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
"a suburban swimming pool is simultaneously everything a fragile family could wish for, and an overwhelming, suffocating nightmare": Bryce McGuire’s overfilled, overheated domestic horror NIGHT SWIM (2024) on UK Blu/DVD from today. Review for SciFiNow
02:09 AM - Apr 22, 2024
Junya Sato’s high-speed ensemble thriller sends an explosives-laden locomotive barrelling into the future: THE BULLET TRAIN (SHINKANSEN DAIBAKUHA, 1975). On Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment https://projectedfigures.c...
03:16 PM - Apr 21, 2024
"these demons deconstruct and reconstruct their victims much as Kassie does her dolls, or Cronin the franchise’s formulae": Lee Cronin's rambunctious reek-quel EVIL DEAD RISE is the bloody mother of the franchise https://projectedfigures.c...
02:42 PM - Apr 21, 2024
Iván Zulueta’s vampiric post-Franco ‘hallucinema’ is a triangle of eros, addiction and filmmaking, rooting its horror in absence and elision: ARREBATO (RAPTURE, 1979) https://projectedfigures.c...
05:53 AM - Apr 21, 2024
"Chris McKay’s therapeutic horror comedy lets its side character find his centre while trying to free himself from a monstrous partner": RENFIELD (2023)
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05:06 AM - Apr 21, 2024
Send 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 Fantaspoa
04:37 AM - Apr 21, 2024
"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
THE INVISIBLE FIGHT re-screens 3.30pm today at Fantaspoa
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Anton Bitel @AntBit"a holy fool on an (un)orthodox spiritual journey in occupied Estonia": Rainer (NOVEMBER) Sarnet’s hard-rocking, genre-crossing kung fu comedy THE INVISIBLE FIGHT (Nähtamatu võitlus, 2023) screens 5.30pm today at Fantaspoa02:07 PM - Apr 12, 2024
05:29 AM - Apr 20, 2024
"a lean, mean confrontation of ideologies in capitalism’s polarising marketplace": François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell's slasher WAKE UP (2024) screens 9.30pm tonight at BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival https://projectedfigures.c...
05:25 AM - Apr 20, 2024
"locks a dysfunctional family in with a troubled adolescent – and an evolving arachnid alien": Kiah Roache-Turner’s funny, savvy creature feature STING (2024) screens 9pm tonight at BIFFF (and in UK cinemas 31 May) https://projectedfigures.c...
05:20 AM - Apr 20, 2024
Cult movie: honoured to have contributed a booklet essay to this Limited Edition Blu-ray of Ti West's THE SACRAMENT (2013), released 17 June via Second Sight Films. Pre-order here https://bit.ly/SacramentLt...
11:27 AM - Apr 19, 2024
"an apartment complex in the Parisian banlieue aggressively invaded by a terrifying foreign species": Sébastien Vanicek’s spidery feature debut INFESTED (VERMINES, 2023) screens 6.15pm tonight (with Q&A) at The Prince Charles Cinema, and comes to Shudder 26 April
05:48 AM - Apr 19, 2024
"a take on the human capacity both to draw others close and to keep them at a distance that is as much psychological as sci-fi": Kim Albright's dystopian romantic allegory WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN (2023) screens 2.45pm today at Fantaspoa
04:48 AM - Apr 19, 2024
"a contemporary tale – with retrospective stylings – of American tourists entrapped in local ritual": Austin Jennings' 'heady love letter to 70s exploitation cinema' EIGHT EYES screens 2pm today at Fantaspoa. Review for SciFiNow
04:14 AM - Apr 19, 2024
