Month: November 2025
*I feel the need to add to this article the fact that I was engaged as a freelance contributor to the film’s post-production team, specifically responsible for creating the end credits. While this does make me part of the film’s crew, this fact has not influenced my thoughts on the film in any way.* Human
Why are horror and exploitation films so popular? Why do fans willingly submit themselves to the gruelling, torturous experiences that these genres provide? The simple answer is it feels good to be scared. Movies like Night of the Living Dead (1968) or Faster Pussy Cat, Kill Kill! (1965) allow fans to experience unique, unusual and
Nicolas Cage, FKA twigs & Noah Jupe deliver us from evil in ‘Jesus horror’ Altitude will release biblical horror The Carpenter’s Son in UK and Irish cinemas on 21st November. A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter (Nicolas Cage), his wife (FKA twigs), and their child (Noah Jupe) are targeted
Some horror games want to scare you. Look Outside wants to crawl under your skin, settle in, and remind you of just how fragile you are — and it succeeds beautifully. This isn’t just another pixel-art “retro horror” release. Look Outside feels like a lost classic, the kind of eerie, rough-edged RPG you would have
Cory Pratt’s Hide (2025) is a perfect mix of graphic imagery and careful restraint. In just a short runtime (less than 20 minutes), it manages to say more than many full-length feature films do, delivering tension, unease, and pointed social commentary without ever tipping into excess. The film shows just enough without feeling overly gratuitous
Just when you thought Phallacies broke the final taboo in art, filmmakers Domiziano Christopharo and Jon Devlin have returned with another horror anthology film, ready to push the boundaries of art with their “back-door” approach to cinema. This time, their gaze is focused solely on the final frontier of the human body in an unflinching,
Premiering at Grimmfest’s annual horror film festival, Frankie, Maniac Woman (2025), directed and co-written by Pierre Tsigaridis, director of Traumatika (2024), arrives with the promise of a searing indictment of the music industry’s relentless objectification of women, yet ultimately becomes complicit in the very misogyny it purports to critique. Following Frankie (Dina Silva), an aspiring
Is there a job that’s actually worth dying for? Director Jake Myers takes on the modern grind culture with this darkly humorous body horror about a mind-altering drink that makes employees work themselves to death. Early on in the film, a young woman is seen working overtime at a mysterious office when she gets a
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed the second focus program for its upcoming festival, taking place from 29 January to 8 February 2026, marking the 55th year of IFFR. This dedicated showcase will centre on V-Cinema, the Japanese direct-to-video cinema boom that transpired in the late 80s, and has had a memorable impact on
November 2025: the Italian occult film Mors Omnia Solvit among the new TteroVideo releases Pre-orders are now open on the official TetroVideo and Goredrome websites for three extreme horror films, including Mors Omnia Solvit (2025), the Italian occult film presented by the extreme label together with DarkVeins Records. The new releases also include the German extreme