Tag: Film Festival
The Killing Cell falls into familiar tropes and beats of the found-footage genre. Notably, the plot sees a group of friends/paranormal investigators head to an abandoned facility, only to find themselves targeted by an evil force. However, filmmakers James Bessey and Karsen Schovajsa realize the truth that any fan of creepy urban-ex videos will tell
Buffet Libre marks the third feature film from actor/director Zoe Berriatúa, and his first dive into more macabre subject matter. Here, the story follows an older Chinese couple, Xian (Yan Huang) and Ikki, whose restaurant, located in a Spanish mall, is threatened by bankruptcy. After the accidental death of a debt collector leads to the
We meet Elena, a “gajin” with a British father and Japanese mother, at her lowest, in a hospital bed after an implied attempt at taking her own life, or self-harm to the point of hospitalization. This incident acts as a catalyst to send her to a new school, where, while she still feels the prejudice
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
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
Imagine waking up one day to a bedroom unfamiliar to you, with a stranger lying on the bed beside you. Sounds like a normal Saturday morning? Well, what if that stranger claims to be your husband, yet you haven’t even met that person ever in your entire life until now? Jessica Rothe finds herself in such
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
Director Kenichi Ugana is profoundly interested in exploring societal outcasts and obsessives in his work, whilst maintaining a distinct punk and transgressive style. With titles such as Visitors: Complete Edition (2023), Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition (2021), and The Curse (2025), to name a few, the young director’s vast number of films feature elements from all
Equal parts camp and shlock horror, Brooke H. Cellars‘s The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025) takes the humour and queer authenticity of a John Waters film and merges it into a gory creature feature that’ll get a standing ‘ovulation’ from period-havers in the audience! Agnes (played by Lauren Kitchen) is a beautiful apple-cheeked young woman
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