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Now Streaming: RESIDENT EVIL Reanimates

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Just can't get enough? Where to watch (nearly) all of them -- with trailers!

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Echoes: The Pakistani Films We Need But That Haven't Been Made Yet

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Not every Pakistani film needs a larger-than-life hero or a damsel in distress to be successful. Pakistan is culturally diverse, and a plethora of films still have not been able to see the light of day. A wish list of stories, genres, and ideas that could broaden the horizons of Pakistani cinema is long overdue. What do I mean by "films we need"? These stories could include overlooked Pakistani communities, addressing social issues without becoming preachy, revisiting history from fresh perspectives, showcasing different regions of Pakistan, experimenting with genres, telling ordinary stories, giving new filmmakers and actors opportunities, and moving beyond predictable romance, comedy, action, or family drama. Hundan-An Echo of a Dirge (2025) is the first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, focusing...

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CHRONOVISOR Review: Book Detective Becomes Something More

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Jack Auen and Kevin Walker's cerebral debut is about the greatest story never told.

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KNIGHTFALL Clip: No Where is Safe (Exclusive)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:45:00 -0500

Ben Fortune's spy action thriller, Knightfall, will be made available on Digital and On Demand on September 11th, thanks to the folks at Saban Films. We have an exclusive clip to to share with you today. Find it, and the trailer, down below. Charles Knight, an infamous spy catcher, is thrust back into action when his daughter Ros, a scientist with the only key to a stolen briefcase, becomes hunted. Inside that case: a man-made biological weapon. With deadly killers closing in, father and daughter must trust each other to prevent a homeland security catastrophe. Knightfall stars Ian Ogilvy, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, Geoffrey Moore, Robert Cavanah, Rupert Holliday Evans, Nick Moran, and Michael Paré. And if you are thinking, 'Geoffrey Moore looks...

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Opening This Week: ONSLAUGHT, BY ANY MEANS, FALL 2: DEADPOINT

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Chronovisor,' 'Cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood,' 'Ever After,' 'Dear You.'

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FrightFest 2026 Review: ITHAQUA, A Chilling Western Gothic Nightmare

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:00:00 -0500

Set in a harsh 1821 Canadian winter, the folk horror film Ithaqua follows the starving residents of an isolated fur-trading fort as they turn against each other and face a primordial, hunger-inducing creature.

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Vlissingen 2026: FILM BY THE SEA Recommendations

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:08 -0500

On Friday the 11th of September, Vlissingen's Film by the Sea festival starts. It's the 28th edition this year, and it has become one of the largest and most glamorous festivals in the Netherlands. Last year saw over 45 thousand tickets sold, and the average audience rating for the films was a whopping 4.2 out of 5. The increase in ticket sales has been considerable each year, so will the festival hit 50K in 2026? We'll see! It's quite an achievement for a festival which is, geographically, a bit out-of-the-way for most people. Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Leiden are all within an hour's travel of each other, but Vlissingen (or Flushing) is in Old Zeeland, in the South-West, part of a group of islands and...

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Now Playing: COLONY Zombies, FILIPINANA Caddies, BUDDY Cracks, THE DOG STARS Woof

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Coyote vs. Acme,' 'Boorman and the Devil,' 'Legend of the White Dragon,' 'The Sun Never Sets.'

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Now Streaming: DARK MATTER S2, Here We Go Again

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, and Jimmi Simpson reprise their roles in the series adapted from Blake Crouch's novel.

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BLUE SUNSHINE Remains a Hair-Raising Genre-Bender

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Synapse Films brings two cult classic horror films home on 4K UHD.

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FILIPIÑANA Review: Rafael Manuel's Feature Redefines Must-See Filmmaking

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:02:09 -0500

There’s a moment in writer-director Rafael Manuel’s often brilliant, always enthralling feature debut, Filipiñana, an expansion of his award-winning 2021 short, where Clara (Carmen Castellanos), the American-born-and-raised niece of a wealthy Filipino businessman, Renato (Carlitos Siguion-Reyna), refuses to bend — or rather, break — the rules and accept a penalty in an otherwise meaningless game of golf. Her personal, pink-clad caddie, Ina (Isabel Sicat), chides Clara for the latter's intransigence. Ina reminds Clara that her uncle regularly “bends” the rules (cheats), as do the other elites at the golf resort where the game unfolds. For Clara, it’s a momentary, perhaps all-too-brief, moment of moral and ethical clarity: She recognizes the social, political, and cultural stratification of the golf club and resort as a...

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GOODY GOODY: Trailer And Key Art Debut For Birthing Body Horror

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0500

Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents and their midwife begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications arise. There are definitely some doozies out there when it comes to horror flicks centered around giving birth. Writer and director Raymond Creamer is looking to add their name to that list with their flick, Goody Goody, streaming on Shudder on September 18th. The trailer and key art debuted today. You will find the trailer down below. Goody Goody stars Samantha Robinson, Zoe Renee, Colby Hollman, and Colleen Foy. ...

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CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF Trailer: ETCH and Lilly Wachowski's Anarchists United Studios Announce Release of Comedy Web Series

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:45:00 -0500

As algorithms go, we do not have much truck for them. The Devil's software does someone else's bidding the moment you start browsing and your feed is inundated with demands for your money and time. Mostly your money. Yet somehow - somehow - some good comes from doom scrolling. Because we wrote about Art Show! With Captain Skinner some time ago the Etch YouTube channel continued to show up long after we wrote about that web series. Thank whatever gods and dieties were responsible or else we may not have already known about the upcoming web series, Cassie Workman is Witchy AF, an eight-part, weekly, adult comedic documentary series that explores the history and philosophy of occultism and magic. Anything that we...

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PENDULUM Official Teaser: Horror Fans Know. New-Age Retreats = Bad.

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:03:38 -0500

In Mark Heyman's feature film directorial debut, Pendulum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor go one a new-age retreat to recover from a traumatic event. The official teaser was released today, and at the very end, when Abigail submerges her head under water in a tub, we hear a baby crying. We're going to take a stab at it and say the trauma is the loss of a child. Married couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is willing to do anything to help his wife, but becomes distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic leader even as Abigail falls under her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple must determine if...

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BLOODY TENNIS Official Trailer: Releases on Shudder on September 25th

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:45:20 -0500

Nikias Chryssos's sports themed horror Bloody Tennis releases on Shudder on September 25th. The movie had its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival and is all set to have its North American Premiere at Fantastic Fest next month. The official trailer is here. Check it out below. After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in the South of Europe, Sophie must contend not only with fierce competition but also with the school’s increasingly sinister undercurrents. What begins as a competitive rite of passage soon unravels into something darker, forcing Sophie to choose between chasing greatness and the connections to her friends and lovers. As the stakes rise, she must decide whether to become the player she’s always dreamed of—or keep her...

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FrightFest 2026 Review: In Korea-Set Horror NERVOUS, Sara Bolger Loses the Ability to Hear Men

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:10:00 -0500

The opening film at this year’s Tubi Frightfest London, Nervous is an ambitious psychological thriller set in the South Korean countryside. Irish actress Sarah Bolger reunites with director Abner Pastoll after the success of 2019’s A Good Woman is Hard to Find, which closed the same festival that year, to spin the unnerving tale of a woman who accompanies her Korean husband back to his homeland, in a desperate effort to save their failing marriage, only to lose the ability to hear men. Moving into an empty and isolated house in the countryside, far from the urban sprawl of Seoul, Sarah (Bolger) and Sungsoo (Sungsoo Yune, Smugglers) experience a series of strange and unsettling events. First their furniture has not been delivered, then they...

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NY's MUSCLEFEST: Part Film Festival, Part Celebration of Underground Trans and Queer Cinema

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Running September 3-6, Muscle Distribution and the Roxy Cinema present MuscleFest, a four-night mini-festival celebrating the distributor's deep-cut restorations, alongside a fearless slate of underground trans and queer cinema. I discovered Muscle Distribution last year at Fantastic Fest with their restoration of Dildo Heaven, the charming "Nudie Cutie" from octogenarian filmmaker and "Queen of Sexploitation" Doris Wishman. Working at a sex shop in Miami in the early '90s, Wishman directed the delightfully shameless, all-top-no-bottoms romp while she was in her late 80s. The completed film premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival just months before her death from lymphoma, before being released posthumously on video in 2002--and, like so many of the films Muscle champions, largely disappearing from the conversation. What really sold me...

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FILIPIÑANA Interview: Rafael Manuel Talks the Colonial Legacy of the Philippines

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Also: How he works between different languages, actors and non-actors, and the film's particular visual form. Jorrybell Agoto delivers an understated performance as a marginalised "tee-girl" in this Filipino debut feature.

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THE DOG STARS Review: Offensive and Intermittently Fun, but Mostly Just Forgettable

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Ridley Scott directs Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, and Allison Janney in his post-apocalyptic adventure.

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COLONY Review: Radical, Exciting Zombie Thriller

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Director Yeon Song-ho ('Train to Busan') breaks all the rules. Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan star.

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BUDDY Review: Cringe Comedy Transforms Into Absurdist Horror

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Casper Kelly directs Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Keegan-Michael Key, Jamie King, Michael Shannon and Topher Grace in a horror comedy.

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Locarno 2026: Asia Argento on Failure, Scandal, and Choosing the Road "That Had a Heart"

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Honoured with Locarno's Lifetime Achievement Award, Asia Argento reflects on surviving childhood fame, turning trauma into 'Scarlet Diva,' rejecting Hollywood millions and finding meaning in a career.

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Breda 2026: Prepare For Pests, Poop And Performances

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:06 -0500

In the Netherlands, the film festival season is upon us. Every few weeks there will be another big film festival, and kicking off the pack this coming weekend is Breda's B-Film, Underground and Trash Film Festival, known as BUT for short. Running from the 26th till the 30th of August, expect Breda to be the center of questionable (but nonetheless great) taste. This year, the festival's main theme is, as the festival poster above attests, "Simply the Pest". And that means a number of great films new and old will be shown about waves of icky animals. Expect classics like Ticks, Slither, Cronenberg's The Fly, Night of the Creeps, Slugs and Bruno Mattei's completely bonkers Rats: Night of Terror. Thursday will be "Toilet Thursday" with...

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BloodStream in September: New Movies Every Day, And The Entire Severin Films Catalog

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0500

BloodStream is adding 48 titles across 30 days with no gaps, marking a catalogue expansion to coincide with Severin Films' 20th anniversary. Alongside the daily releases, the update introduces over 300 titles from the Severin Films vault.

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IT ENDS New Trailer: Now Playing in NY & LA, Opens Nationwide This Friday

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:45:00 -0500

Alex Ullom's indie thriller, It Ends, is now playing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. It will open nation wide this weekend, so a new trailer was released today. Check it out below. Some wrong turns last forever. A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Cramped together inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it. It may also be due for a bit of a reality check, as...

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Fantasia 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:01:01 -0500

Before we dive into one of Canada's other great film festivals -- yes, Toronto -- which will kick off on September 10, we wanted to look back at the mighty and mammoth Fantasia International Film Festival, held every year in Montreal, Quebec. Kurt Halfyard kicked off our coverage with his curtain-raiser gallery, featuring dozens of films. Our team of reviewers wrote about 18 of the films that had the greatest impact upon them. Their reviews are listed below, in alphabetical order. Please read, share, and bookmark. Some of the films are already out in theaters, while others are on their way, and still others are seeking distribution. Reviews by Kurt Halfyard: HER PRIVATE HELL, A Nightmare Neon Opera INSECTASY, Are You Into Bugs? NIKO, All...

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ERASER 4K UHD Review: High-Octane Action Has More Depth with Details in Special Features

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Director Chuck Russell directed thrillers and enjoyed a steady following. The focus of his directing is often on a strong main character protecting someone or having a sense of humor from transformation. One example of a main character trying to keep someone safe is the setup of The Scorpion King (2002). An example of someone transforming into something else is The Mask (1994). Russell’s style was to keep the attention on the main hero whether they possessed good qualities or bad. Both of those elements show up in Eraser, the 1996 thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (as Eraser), Vanessa Williams (as Lee Cullens), and James Cannes (as DeGuerin) which is now available on 4K UHD. The credits roll with paperwork linked to crime scenes and issues...

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Locarno 2026 Review: THE RIVERBANK Turns Queer Desire Into a Defiant Neo-Noir

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Brazilian filmmakers Enock Carvalho and Matheus Farias make an atmospheric feature debut with a slow-burning queer neo-noir that pits intimacy and solidarity against the murderous politics of the militarized religious right.

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Locarno 2026 Interview: MANHUNT Director Wayne Wapeemukwa on Humanizing Killers, Settler Mythology, and Cinema Without Sermons

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Wayne Wapeemukwa talks about transforming a notorious Canadian killing spree, confronting misogyny and settler mythology, working with nonprofessional actors, and resisting demands that cinema reduce violent characters to moral lessons.

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Echoes: Who Decides What Pakistan Gets to Watch?

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:02:01 -0500

It is well known that Pakistan is a country where stringent laws restrict viewers from accessing certain types of content and films, therefore already imposing a hold on what Pakistan gets to watch. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has a mandate that covers private and broadcast media across all distribution services, defining what content reaches the general public. Objections may be raised over content that includes obscenity, violence, extremism, religious sensitivities, threats to public order, and material considered contrary to national or cultural values. The Legend of Maula Jatt (2022) is one recent example that faced problems passing PEMRA requirements due to violence; Javed Iqbal (2022) is another example that threatened the country's law and order, while Sarmad Sultan Khoosat's Zindagi Tamasha (2019's...

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Locarno 2026 Review: DESTROY ALL GIRLS, Freewheeling Skate-Punk Rebellion, With an Expiration Date

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Erin Vassilopoulos' sophomore feature is a retro-styled skate odyssey whose authentic subcultural energy invigorates a familiar story.

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Locarno 2026 Review: ROMA ELASTICA Cannibalizes the Myth of the Movie Star in a Delirious Cinephile Phantasmagoria

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Marion Cotillard stars in Bertrand Mandico's a surrealistic tribute to golden age actresses, celluloid cinema and Italian culture.

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Opening This Week: COLONY, FILIPIANA, BUDDY, THE DOG STARS

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Coyote vs Acme,' 'Boorman and the Devil,' 'Legend of the White Dragon,' 'The Sun Never Sets.'

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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: Digging Into the Symbolism of Little Death

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

What does Spider-Man: Brand New Day have in common with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma? Oddly enough, both films, released this summer -- one a queer slasher, the other a two-billion dollar grossing MCU entry -- use the exact same piece of visual symbolism to represent female dissociation. [Read our review by Lou Cai.] It's something that has bothered me ever since I walked out of Camp Miasma -- and something actually asked about during the post-screening Q&A, only to have the question promptly deflected: Why does Little Death wear a ceiling vent as a mask? When it comes to slashers, I am a sucker for lore, probably for the same reason Jane Schoenbrun is. Why was this mask chosen? Why does the...

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Locarno 2026 Review: BLOODY TENNIS Serves Up a Blood-Soaked Sports-Horror Satire

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:07:10 -0500

Nikias Chryssos serves up a blood-soaked, darkly funny sports horror in which an elite tennis academy trains its aspiring champions through ritualized brutality.

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Locarno 2026 Masterclass: Darren Aronofsky on Risk, Movie Jail, and Knowing When to Let a Film Go

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Honoured with Locarno's Pardo d'Onore, Darren Aronofsky reflects on turning poverty into style, surviving "movie jail," casting actors at the right moment and learning when to let a film go.

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VAMPIR: New Film From EXHUMA's Jang Jae-hyun to Start Production Soon

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0500

Yoo Ah-in will play a contract killer who tracks down a mysterious pagan group at the request of a clergyman.

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HOPE: Wanna See Na Hong-jin's Sci-fi Action Thriller Two Days Early?

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:45:00 -0500

If you need to see Na Hong-jin's sci-fi action thriller Hope "like now, right now", but do not want to wait until its theatrical release date, September 9th, we do not have an immediate solution for your insatiable need but NEON is trying to help. On September 7th, two days before the official release date, NEON is holding an exclusive early-access premium format screening event at 175 PLF (poor man's lingo for, "We couldn't get it into IMAX, so....") locations across the U.S. in six premium formats, including Dolby, 4DX, ScreenX, Barco HDR, D-BOX and Dolby Atmos. Participating theaters are located in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and more. A link to the early-access screenings to purchase tickets is HERE. NEON Sets Exclusive...

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Now Playing: IT ENDS Thrills, HOT SPOT Disappoints, INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER Limps, MUTINY Pounds Away

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Last month's big-budget blockbusters The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day are still playing at multiplexes nationwide, but for those in search of something new and different, we have a few recommendations for you. First is a mind-bender that starts routinely and then steadily becomes extraordinary. You won't want to miss It Ends. I saw the film at SXSW last year and agree completely with our critic J Hurtado, whose review is linked below. I have not yet seen the sci-fi thriller Hot Spot, nor the ghost story Insidious: Out of the Further, nor the Jason Statham action picture Mutiny nor the fevered Kafka bio-pic Franz nor the Anthony Bourdain slice-of-life bio-pic Tony nor the horror pic Blood Shine nor the drama How to Divorce...

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INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER Review: Non-Essential Entry Over-Promises and Under-Delivers

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:02:08 -0500

After an all-too-brief, barely noticed three-year hiatus, the highly profitable Insidious series returns with its sixth and unfortunately, far-from-final entry, Insidious: Out of the Further. Co-created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell as a counter to the graphic, ultra-violent blood-and-gore Saw series they originated in 2004, Insidious and its follow-ups featured a more traditional, supernatural set-up. Instead of the usual supernatural entry, however, Insidious kept the haunts, but instead of ghosts or demons haunting a specific location (i.e., a house), they haunted the human characters themselves. The premise alone contributed a generally suffocating sense of claustrophobia: Fleeing a haunted house, the standard go-to escape for supernatural stories, didn’t matter anymore. The unhappy, restless ghosts and/or the parasitic demons had to be met and...

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JACOB'S LADDER: The Haunting Nightmare Comes Home on 4K UHD

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:17:04 -0500

'Jacob's Ladder' and 'The Devil's Rejects' get the Lionsgate Limited treatment with new 4K releases.

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HOT SPOT Review: Memorable Visuals, But Not Enough Story or Noomi Rapace

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:32:02 -0500

Andrzej Konopka and Noomi Rapace star in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's sci-fi thriller.

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CHRONOVISOR Official Trailer: What if we Could Reproduce Visuals From Any Point in History on a TV Screen?

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0500

While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice, a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen.

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HY3NA: Our First Look at Matthew Ninaber's Hyper-Stylized Thriller (Exclusive)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:30:00 -0500

A desperate young woman falls under the control of a seductive predator, becoming both a pawn in a lethal power dynamic and the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.

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DER FAN Returns with a 4K Restoration Vengeance

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500

It’s been a long time since I’ve heard hushed whispers of the subversive German thriller, Der Fan. Written and directed by the late West German provocateur Eckhart Schmidt, this film was never banned formally, more so shunned due to both its content and the onscreen depiction of its 16-year-old teenage star, Désirée Nosbusch, as well as least one other likely teenage girl. You probably have a sense of what I’m about to write, and damn, do I have mixed feelings writing about this film. In the last year, we’ve discovered a massive global problem with pedophilia and trafficking of children, particularly of young girls. And I’ve just seen the new 4K restoration of this 1982 film in all its full-frontal audacity. There are few actual...

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NEVER AFTER DARK: Check Out The Official Trailer And Poster For "Dave Boyle's ravishingly dark ghost story"

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:45:00 -0500

David Boyle's amazing supernatural horror flick, Never After Dark, is coming the theaters on September 25th and the official trailer and poster have come out today.

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John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD Gets a Beautiful 4K Release from Imprint Asia

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

John Woo's classic 'Bullet in the Head' and the horror film 'Face to Face' are new from Imprint Asia.

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Locarno 2026 Interview: KETTICÈ Filmmakers Luca Guadagnino and Giovanni Tortorici on Adolescent Rebellion and Protecting Cinema's Rare Roses

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:02:08 -0500

At Locarno, the Palermo-born director and his producer traced a line from adolescent resistance to an endangered idea of cinema, specific, unruly and built from a language of its own.

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Locarno 2026 Interview: DONKEY PRINCESS Filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña Say "Jan Švankmajer Is Our Father"

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:02:07 -0500

The acclaimed Chilean duo discusses expanding their handmade cinematic language into live action and drawing on the formative influence of Jan Švankmajer.

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MUTINY Review: Statham Hews to Formula in Human Trafficking Thriller

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:47:05 -0500

Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, and Adrian Lester star in the action thriller, directed by Jean-François Richet.

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