Author: Jim Cox
*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
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,
Meiruko-chan is a 2025 Japanese supernatural horror/slice of life film written and directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura. Beginning his career with the horror film series Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video, Yoshihiro Nakamura would proceed to write and direct the first seven films in the series–later returning to the series to narrate films eleven through to
Bodycam is a 2025 Canadian found footage horror film written and directed by Brandon Christensen, with additional writing from Ryan Christensen. Brandon is best known as the writer/director behind films such as Still/Born (2017), Superhost (2021), as well as The Puppetman (2023), and Night of the Reaper (2025), with Ryan attached as a writer. Two
We Put the World to Sleep is a 2025 found footage horror/faux documentary written and directed by AdrianȚofei, with additional writing by Duru Yücel. Filmed across 13 cities, villages, and remote locations in Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine, the film’s development began in 2015 and spanned over nine years of filming. Adrian and Duru captured approximately
Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition (Ibutsu – Kanzenhan) is a 2021 Japanese horror drama film written and directed by Kenichi Ugana. Renowned for directing bloody horror, Kenichi is recognised as the creator behind films such as Visitors: Complete Edition (2023), the Japanese-Taiwanese collaborative horror The Curse (2025), and the upcoming Incomplete Chairs (2025). The film compiles
Presented by Marketing Macabre & Anders Hartvedt, A Baroque Film Festival is coming to Eastwood PAC, Los Angeles, CA, on November 22nd to deliver a shocking showcase of the graphic, the bizarre, the extreme, and the defiantly DIY. With three feature films and eight shorts organised over one brutal, unforgettable night, the festival is sure
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1984, Kenichi Ugana is a Japanese film director and screenwriter who graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Aoyama Gakuin University. Beginning his career in film with his short films, Access (2010) and Smell (2011), Kenichi would break into feature-length titles with Gangro Gal’s Riot (2016), a film based on the Ganguro
After Phallacies shattered one of cinema’s last taboos — the male body — a new manifesto rises. ANALOGIES is its spiritual sequel, expanding the territory of Analogical Cinema and focusing its gaze on the most demonised and fetishised frontier: the anus. A radical collective of filmmakers guides this new chapter: Jake Valentine (Phallacies), initiator of the
Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago), a 1985 sci-fi fantasy anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano. Oshii is best known for directing the cult classic adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga, Ghost in the Shell (1995), while Amano is notable for his character design work on the Final Fantasy video game series