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Menstruation has never been this terrifying—or this powerful. Geniuspills Media announces the festival debut of HYSTERICUS, a visceral body-horror short that transforms menstruation into spine-chilling terror. When Officer Sam Benton responds to a distress call from a teenage girl and mall goth at a remote house, she creeps through bloody sheets, lots of meat, and
Nightmares Film Festival (Oct. 16 to 19, at the legendary Gateway Film Center) has unwrapped its complete tenth anniversary edition lineup. The “Cannes of horror,” as the four-day celebration of #BetterHorror is known, will present 18 features, 130 shorts, and more than 120 attending filmmakers and screenwriters, alongside one-of-a-kind events, world premieres, and rare in-person
Fresh off the heels of its raucous world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by delightfully polarizing screenings at Fantastic Fest and Beyond Fest before moving on to Europe, Todd Rohal’s Fuck My Son! is not waiting around any longer to unleash itself on the general public. As announced in Variety on Wednesday,
Black Mandala presents the horror film NIGHTFALL: A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION, directed by Myles McEwen and Ripley Stevens. Two paranormal investigators, rumored to be cousins of the Warrens, thought they had seen it all—until a call led them to a place where the rules of our world no longer apply. NIGHTFALL: A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION is part of the new
Set during World War II, Kiah Roache-Turner’s Beast of War (2025) follows a battalion of young Australian soldiers as they prepare for their first deployment. Focusing primarily on Leo, played by Mark Coles Smith, an indigenous soldier with a troubled past who also earns the ire of fellow soldier, Des (Sam Delich), due to his
Chewed-up nails, dizzy spells, why-haven’t-I-thrown-up-yet, bullets of sweat, racing heart and aching head- anxiety can be arduous to experience. The last thing you’d expect someone to suggest to help with it is to experience it recreationally? Yet, studies not only show that those with anxiety are more likely to seek out products in the horror
Iconic is one of those films that looks great on paper: A slick, high-concept piece on the dangers of influencer culture, our tech-saturated reality, and the blurred line between online performance and human authenticity, but spun on its head to lean more into the unsettling disconnect from reality angle. Add in some gore, Dutch angles,
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
Dildo Heaven is a 2002 American sexploitation comedy written and directed by Doris Wishman. The story follows Lisa, Beth, and Tess, three roommates living together, all trying to seduce their respective bosses. Less of a straightforward plot, Dildo Heaven is presented as a series of soft pornographic scenes tied together by a series of characters and
Cruel Jaws, also known as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws or The Beast, is a 1995 English-language Italian creature feature horror film written and directed by Bruno Mattei, with additional writing by Robert Feen and Linda Morrison. Making his directorial debut with 20 minutes of hardcore pornography inserts for Jess Franco’s 99 Women (1969), Mattei would