Editorials

Photo Credit - Robin Keane The final film from Justin Hardy, who sadly died before the film could be premiered, Wrath of the Gods arrives with an immense amount of weight on its shoulders. There is a great deal of context that could be applied to this folk horror, so much that it threatens to overwhelm the affair. But whilst it doesn’t quite survive unscathed, the film emerges as a fascinating piece of modern folk horror. The film follows Anna who returns to the island of Hel

Going deep into the forest and exploring the human condition is Conscian Morgan’s Binding Eva which has its world premiere in the First Blood strand at this year’s FrightFest. The film follows a small-time criminal as he learns just what it means to put others first before his own selfish needs. Ryan Ralph Gerrard stars as Felix, a low level criminal who is on the run. After kidnapping Katarina (Catherine Deevy) and her daughter Eva (Darcey Wood) and forcing them to drive, th

Helge (played by Pilou Asbæk) Set against the dark and foreboding backdrop of the Faroe Islands in the late 1800s, Kaspar Kalle’s No Rest For The Wicked is a gothically enthralling tale of lost love, and longing from the grave. Having its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, No Rest For The Wicked follows a young fisherman who, after encountering a stranger at sea, finds his life turned upside down and his eyes opened to experiences behind the s

Mother knows best, and there’s no better depiction of this mantra than Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn which will be having its North American premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. The first year of parenthood is a literal circle of hell, with sleepless nights, countless arguments with partners, changing bodies, and edging onto the brink of insanity, and a young couple in Finland are discovering just how difficult raising a newborn can be. Saga (Seidi Haarl

Having had its international premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo is the...

Clare Monnelly as Shoo Following up 2018’s found footage chiller The Devil’s Doorway , filmmaker Aislinn Clarke has once again returned...

Jeany Sparks as Amy Cummings Directed by David Luke Rees, By The Throat follows a care worker, Lizzy, as she takes charge of a grieving...

A shadowy insular village in rural England hides a terrifying secret surrounding the mysterious murder of a local farmer, and when a...

Premiering at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, Bokshi , directed by Indian genre filmmaker Bhargav Saikia in his...

The Damned 2024 Set amongst the frozen landscape of an Arctic bay, Thordur Palsson’s The Damned is a desolate depiction of the horrors of...

The satirical psychological horror You Are Not Me centres itself on a woman who, with her partner and child, heads home for the holidays...

Directed by Didier Konings, Witte Wieven (aka Heresy ) is a dark folktale heavy with an oppressive atmosphere that centers around a...

Between the years of 1963 and 1965, a crime of such abhorrence was carried out in the north of England that the entire country was shaken...