Review by Kayley Viteo The Theater Bizarre is the result of an interesting experiment where six genre filmmakers are given an identical budget and full creative license in order to make a short film in Grand Guignol tradition. Basically, this is an anthology for “mutant side projects” that showcase the most disturbing, grisly things an [...]

Review by Kayley Viteo It’s 2039 and astronaut Lee Miller (Gunner Wright) is alone aboard the International Space Station. Cut off from the Earth after some sort of apocalyptical event destroys communications, Miller is faced with the sort of isolation humans are not meant to experience. Once he finds a journal that dates back to [...]

Review by Kayley Viteo War of the Dead is an ideal film festival movie if for no other reason than Nazi zombies are warmly welcomed by a crowd ready to have fun. In recent years it seems like the zombie subgenre has spawned its own subgenre with Nazi zombies, something I must confess to being [...]

Review by Kayley Viteo Kevin Corrigan (Pineapple Express) plays Ken Boyd, a recently released mental patient who suffers from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder from severely traumatic bullying in high school. As a new romance, an unsympathetic mother, and a surprise appearance by his 11-year-old daughter all combine to ratchet his stress levels higher, Ken’s [...]

Reviews by Kayley Viteo Good Morning Beautiful – Although I missed the beginning of this one due to Toronto traffic, I walked in at the right moment. Creepy, but with a sly undercurrent, there’s something both slow-moving and frenetic about this short by Todd Cobery. Protoparticulas – A sci-fi black and white piece that manages [...]

Review by Kayley Viteo Mike (Michael McKiddy) wakes up in a laboratory with amnesia, somehow less dead than the other zombies running around the countryside. He quickly teams up with Brent (Ross Kidder), an even more talkative zombie, and finds himself on a quest to win back the heart of his girlfriend Ellie (Natalie Victoria). [...]

by Keri O’Shea  ’All good things to those who wait’. In the case of so many things that’s a truism, and horror fests are of course no exception. Welsh horror festival Abertoir has now announced its final line-up and – if you can accept the bias of someone who is going along – it is [...]

by JC De Leon If there’s one thing that the team who created the [Rec] franchise has taught us, it’s that they are a cinematic force to be reckoned with. One half of that team — Jaume Balagueró — has managed to craft a film at this year’s Fantastic Fest that is much slower paced, [...]

by JC De Leon Continuing the trend of films at this year’s Fantastic Fest that keep the viewer guessing and result in being pleasantly surprised, we have an entry from Adrián García Bogliano: Penumbra. Fresh off making a splash at SXSW earlier this year, this follow-up examines a day in the life of a beautiful [...]

by Britt Hayes It’s not easy to craft a film that is both an acknowledgement and re-invigoration of a genre. You’re Next breathes fresh life into a genre that’s been dominated in recent years by foreign horror imports, with the last good American home invasion film being the eerily effective The Strangers. When Erin (Sharni Vinson)  goes [...]

by Ben Bussey. UK readers: hopefully you’re up to speed on all the horror film fests coming your way this season (if not, click here). Now there’s another date to add to your diary: 29th October, on which FrightFest’s annual Halloween all-nighter will be taking place at the Vue West End in London’s Leicester Square. [...]

by JC De Leon Film festivals can, at times, subject those that attend to films of a familiar nature. So many times we will sit down for a film where we think we’ll know all of the steps that are about to unfold. Such is the case with Rabies. Stop me if you’ve heard this [...]

by Britt Hayes What do you do when your son is an irredeemable, manipulative, and dangerous human being, but the only person who can see it is you? In Lynne Ramsay’s latest film, We Need to Talk About Kevin (based on the novel of the same name), Eva (Tilda Swinton) and Franklin (John C. Reilly) [...]

by Britt Hayes Sean Hogan returns to Austin just six months after the premiere of Little Deaths at SXSW to present his latest effort, The Devil’s Business. The story of two hit men sent to take out a man who has slighted their mob boss, The Devil’s Business is an intimate and engaging film that [...]

Review by J.C. De Leon I know what you’re thinking. Juan of the Dead. You’re thinking “with a name like that, did the writer/director even TRY to come up with something original?” While it may not be the most original film, (but really, what zombie film today is completely original anyway?), it’s certainly one of [...]

by Britt Hayes The writing and directing team of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are responsible for arguably one of the best horror films in recent memory: Inside (À l’intérieur). With Inside, the duo created a tense, violent home invasion film that touched upon themes of obsession, motherhood, and loss. With Livid, they’ve returned with [...]

by Britt Hayes Two years ago Tom Six premiered Human Centipede at Fantastic Fest, earning high praise for the button-pushing genre film and promising a more provocative and brutal second film in the planned trilogy. This year Six is back with Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence. Six introduces his audience to Martin (Laurence R. Harvey), [...]