Capture – ★★★★

Full of suspense, Bruce Wemple’s Capture is an excellent horror film that keeps its audience guessing. With a fantastic lead performance from Kaitlyn Lunardi, Capture is a film that you need to check out. After inheriting her parents’ long-abandoned house, Abby uncovers a mysterious thirty-year-old camcorder hidden among a collection

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Virgin (Short) ★★★★★ – Micheaux Film Festival 2025

Ramone Menon’s short film Virgin is a fantastic twist on a well-known story. 15 minutes of pure horror excellence that still manages to remain thoughtful as it is engrossing. A must-watch short. A man (Herman Gambhir) and his pregnant fiancée (Jessica Damouni) are travelling and looking for a safe spot

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Incomplete Chairs ★★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

Kenichi Ugana’s absurdist Incomplete Chairs is a bloody strike at consumerism and materialism. Fantastically gory from beginning to end and filled with deathly dark comedy, you can’t help but have a fun old time with one. Shinsuke Kujo (Ryu Ichinose) is a chair artist who is trying to figure out

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Anything That Moves ★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025

Anything That Moves is a wonderfully horny sex-positive celebration with a delightful Giallo 35mm tinge to it. Writer-director Alex Phillips delivers a fascinating film that is far more vulnerable than you might imagine. Sex worker Liam (Hal Baum) spends his days riding through Chicago delivering snacks and heaven-sent orgasms for

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Noise – ★★★★ Fantasia 2025

Noise is a cracker of an audio-visual experience, keeping its audience not only on the edge of their seat but also on their toes. Kim Soo-jin’s debut film leaves an terrifying impression on you thanks to some sublime sound design. Ju-Young (Lee Sun-bin) has a complicated relationship with her sister

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Hold the Fort – ★★★★ Fantasia 2025

Hold the Fort is the horror comedy of the year, an absolute blast that, once the action starts, becomes a non-stop riot. William Bagley’s film delivers in every conceivable way. Lucas and Jenny finally buy their first home out in suburbia, the only problem is they have moved in just

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Frankie Freako – ★★★★

Steven Kostanski has found a unique, cheesy, weird and most importantly, fun corner of cinema to thrive in, and that continues with his latest film, Frankie Freako. It’s bizarre, but a whole lot of fun and sometimes, that’s all you need in life. Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential

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Thinestra ★★★★ – Raindance 2025

Obsession with perfection is a cruel thing that humans suffer with, and in Thinestra, we are given a tragedy, a bloodsoaked terrific tragedy. See this at the first opportunity. Penny (Michelle Macedo) works in advertising and all she sees, day in day out, are “perfect” bodies or bodies that are

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Consecration – ★★ 1/2

Consecration showcases the fantastic visual talents of director Christopher Smith, but what could be a solid horror-thriller is hindered by a script that is purposefully meandering and disjointed. It’s worth watching. However, you just wish it could have been better. After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace

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The Ugly Stepsister – ★★★★

Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister is a film filled with gorgeous fury—a despairing and rather heartbreaking body horror fairytale. Lea Myren’s tortured performance is an absolute highlight in this fantastically disturbing film. Elvira (Lea Myren) is pushed by her forward and plotting mother Rebekka to attend the ball in which

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