The folks at Frontieres have announced this year's lineup ups for The Genre Film Lab and Shorts to Features programs. The Genre Film Lab is an accelerator program designed to support the development of Canadian feature film genre projects…
Freestyle Media have acquired Jess Thomas Cook's sci-fi alien horror movie, The Hyperborean, and will put it out on VOD platforms and DVD in the U.S. on July 19th. Cook is one of Canada's more prolific horror filmmakers these days, one…
Parker Finn's Smile was a bit of a sensation when it came out in 2022. Backed by a viral and clever marketing campaign at live events on network television Smile proved to be an enormous financial success for Paramount at the time, taking…
After spending a decade in prison, a hitman learns that he has a daughter and just wants a chance at a normal life. But his former mob boss wants him back at any cost, sending merciless assassins after him.
Brian Johnson's dystopian action thriller, Population Pruge, is coming to digital platforms on July 9th. Written together with Toby Osborne, the indie tells the story of a father and daughter who are trying to help survivors of a…
Heading out into the wilderness and losing your shit is not that uncommon in genre cinema. What makes you pay particular attention to a project is when your film has the backing of one Rodney Ascher, director of such faves as The Nightmare…
Anything Spanish language catches my eye, so when news that an upcoming psychological horror flick from Spain came across my desk I knew I had to share it with you. Disforia, the debut feature film from Christopher Cartagena, wrapped…
This year's Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) in Korea will open with Rose Glass' acclaimed romantic neo-noir thriller Love Lies Bleeding, while Soi Cheang's Cannes-premiered Hong Kong action-drama Twilight of the…
There ain't no week like market week at Fantasia. Our friends at Frontières have just announced the official market selection for this year's co-production market which runs from July 24th through the 27th. This year's selection included…
Our friends at Skip CIty International D-Cinema Festival are celebrating their 21st anniversary this year. Starting back in 2004 the festival is located in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. This year the festival is…
Everything is ready for the 14th edition of the Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM), which will take place from June 13 to 20 in Mexico City. As part of the Atlas section, we will finally be able to see Harmony Korine’s new…
The second wave of titles have just been announced for this year's edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival and of course there are some doozies in the mix. First off, Ant Timpson's Bookworm, starring Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher…
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside. Directed and written by Daniel Kokotajlo, STARVE ACRE stars…
When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing,…
Set to enjoy its world premiere at Tribeca Festival 2024, The Dog Thief revolves around the titular animal-snatcher and an unexpected relationship that he develops with a lonely tailor. The trailer suggests that more layers will be…
In the new action-comedy The Killer's Game, when top hitman Joe Flood (Dave Bautista) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired…
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
Hey. Do you want to get a sense of how holy-fuck-violent Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's action movie Kill is? Then watch this clip! If I remember correctly, since it's been a while since I caught the world premiere at TIFF, this is about the halfway…
Back in the day I was with my parents and brother in one of our local malls and we were thinking about going to see a movie. This was when James Cameron's Aliens was playing and I kid you not, our mom, for a brief moment was thinking out…
In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky…
The dramatic horror film Handling The Undead goes into a wider release this coming Friday. We had the opportunity to speak with the director and co-writer, Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl about their debut feature film. We talk about…
When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as…
Here's one for the little guys, or, it's the little things that matter the most, or ... ... Deadline has reported this weekend that the Canadian slasher flick, In A Violent Nature, gave IFC Films it's latest, biggest opening of the year…