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[Fantastic Fest 2025]: The Cramps: A Period Piece
Lauren Kitchen as Agnes Applewhite Having had its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, Brooke H. Cellars’ The Cramps: A Period...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 92 min read
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[Fantastic Fest 2025]: Bad Haircut
Frankie Ray & Spencer H. Levin as Mick and Billy Having had its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, Bad Haircut directed by...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 22 min read
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[Review]: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Tim Curry as Dr Frank-n-Furter Intimately detailing the origin story and steady rise of one of the world’s most beloved musicals, Strange...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 22 min read
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[Review]: Somnium
Chasing your dreams and starting over in a brand new city can be hell, and no one knows this better than Gemma, an aspiring actress who’s...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 122 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Blood Shine
Having had its international premiere at this year’s FrightFest, Blood Shine , directed and written by Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks,...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 22 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Super Happy Fun Clown
An eternal presence in the horror genre, one is never too far away from a killer clown. And Super Happy Fun Clown  features a doozy of a...

Russell Bailey
Sep 12 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Sane Inside Sanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror
With a powerful combination of glam-rock ear-worm songs and b-movie science fiction aesthetic, The Rocky Horror Show  burst forth from...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 251 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Tomb Watcher
A basic issue that most ghost stories must overcome is a reason why someone would stay where they are when the spooky going-ons begin....

Russell Bailey
Aug 252 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: He Kills At Night
Levi Heaton as Marie Coming from Thomas and James Pickering, He Kills at Night  is a thriller reaching for the kind-of impact that early...

Russell Bailey
Aug 242 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: The Haunting At Jack The Ripper's House
A fascinating strand of horror that is emerging are the ones that explore the relationship we have with the artifice of an online life....

Russell Bailey
Aug 242 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Marshmallow
Certain horrors are tricksy things to approach. Marshmallow  is a mystery box, something that reveals itself to be a far more interesting...

Russell Bailey
Aug 242 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Pig Hill
Directed by Kevin Lewis, Pig Hill is a dark and mysterious thriller that centres itself around an urban legend of pig-like people which...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 242 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Dog Of God
Adult animation in the West is a tricksy thing. In other parts of the world there is a rich seam of films catering to an older audience,...

Russell Bailey
Aug 232 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Don't Let The Cat Out
Taking its title from one of the many rules that a cat sitter must abide by, Don’t Let the Cat Out  feels like the ultimate exploration...

Russell Bailey
Aug 232 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: The Arbiter
Kicking with a vibe of Guy Ritchie does a post-apocalyptic-esque The Warriors (1979) remake, The Arbiter is a violent depiction of...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 222 min read
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[Book Review]: That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas
For as long as horror has been a genre, whether that be through spoken story-telling traditions, literature or through film itself, the...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 202 min read
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[Fantasia International Film Festival]: Burning
Aysanat Edigeeva as Asel Having had its North American premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, the Kyrgyzstanian...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 122 min read
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[Fantasia International Film Festival Review]: Dui Shaw
Waqt Having had its Canadian premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, the Bengali language anthology film Dui Shaw...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 62 min read
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[Fantasia International Film Festival Review]: Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo
Having had its international premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo is the...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 301 min read
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[Fantasia International Film Festival Review]: Noise
Having had its North American premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, the feature directorial debut of Kim Soo-jin...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 232 min read
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