It’s that time of year again! Blood in the Snow Film Festival is back for 2024 with a whole host of short, medium, and feature-length films for horror fans to sink their teeth into. To kick off the festivities, we take a look at their first block of short films – Dark Visions. Shiva Shiva
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Inherit the Witch (2024), directed, co-written by, and starring Cradeaux Alexander, is an ambitious attempt at psychological horror through means of generational trauma. Filmed almost entirely with handheld cameras – sometimes for logical reasons, sometimes seemingly for effect – Inherit the Witch barrels between claustrophobic and agoraphobic, with most of the action taking place in
eROTik 2: The Beyond is a 2024 extreme horror film directed by Felice Santulli (better known as Slade Wilson), with Marylu’ Lallo working as assistant director. The film is a sequel/reboot to Tetromaniac: eROTik (2018), written by Levent Kaya and directed by Domiziano Christpharo. Being the first feature-length title in his repertoire, Slade is better
Director/Producer Shannon Alexander presents It’s Coming (2023), a compelling documentary about one woman’s journey to rid her home of unwanted ghosts while her young son Javier can still be saved. Day Trader and mother of 5, Ashley Roland-White claims that she’s been haunted by a spirit named Max since she was 11 years old, but
With 2024’s Terrifier 3 breaking the box office record for the highest-grossing unrated film of all time, Damien Leone’s iconic character Art the Clown has blown up as a pop culture icon. Art’s admittedly grotesque visage appears on t-shirts and posters, his likeness is replicated by countless cosplayers, and he even has a massive online
I am a fan of found footage films, but let’s be honest, they’re mostly hit or miss. Only a few actually stand out among the sea of “Blair Witch” copycats over the years. However, sometimes you just stumble upon a little gem unexpectedly. From “Hell House LLC,” “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum,” and the more recent “Skinamarink,”
Village of Doom is a 1983 Japanese period crime thriller, written by Bo Nishimura and Takuya Nishioka, and directed by Noboru Tanaka. Primarily working as a Roman Porno director under Nikkatsu Studios, Tanaka began his directorial career with the softcore drama Beads from a Petal (1972) and continued to make many classic pieces of
Strike is a 2024 supernatural horror short film, written by Hendrik Harms and directed by Mark Patterson. When the lonely and isolated Francine is gifted a case of matches made in her controlling husband’s factory, she discovers that within the flames of each match resides the tortured soul of a deceased factory worker, cursed to
MadS (2024) introduces us to a group of affluent French teenagers as they prepare for an evening of local house parties on the rural edge of an unnamed town. Romain (Milton Riche), dressed in shorts and an unbuttoned designer shirt, is seen visiting his dealer, snorting some unknown red powder, before jumping into his father’s
I love good old-fashioned mockumentaries, especially when they’re done right. Lake Mungo, Ghostwatch, Hell House LLC. and Savageland are just some of my personal favorite mockumentaries—these films manage to create a sense of reality while delivering some pretty effective scares. I still feel creeped out even after seeing these films multiple times. So when I