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*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
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
Some movies are so bad that they’re fun, like an 80s slasher flick with gratuitous gore and cheesy tropes. You know, the type of films that are so bad that they’re good and end up with a cult following? Well, Your Host isn’t one of them. Directed by DW Medoff and premiering at Frightfest 2025,
Fist is a 2025 German splatter horror film written by Jean Rises and directed by Tibor Astor. Known for his extreme horror books and novellas, Jean is also the writer/producer behind such films as Domiziano Christopharo’s Flammentodd (2024), Jonathan Doe’s The Art of Self-Harm (2023), and David Stojan’s Slave Dolls 2: Red Rooms (2024). Whereas
Known as one of the most gruesome series of Japanese rape-revenge and torture films ever made, the All Night Long Series has long been associated with a sense of infamy. Consisting of six films written and directed by Katsuya Matsumura from 1992 to 2009, these films are known for their graphic portrayal of mutilation, torture,
Aimee Kuge’s directorial debut feature, Cannibal Mukbang, dares to ask, “How far would you go for love?” This unsettling yet darkly compelling film explores some of society’s most intimate, and often destructive, relationships: with food, with sexuality, and with one another. Through the visceral lens of performative social media and the primal taboo of cannibalism,
Director Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel) has carved a niche for himself as a purveyor of slow, dreamlike horror steeped in dread. Longlegs, his latest film, promises to be his most ambitious project yet: a serial killer procedural dripping with Satanic overtones, shot through a grainy 90s lens, and headlined by a
Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb is a 1991 adult-oriented sci-fi horror anime film written by Toshio Maeda, Shô Aikawa, and Kôichi Ôhata, and directed by Hideki Takayama. The film is the second part of the anime adaptation of the infamous ero guro series, comprised of Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989), this film,
Visceral: Between the Ropes of Madness (also known as Visceral: Entre las cuerdas de la locura) is a 2012 Chilean extreme horror film written, directed, and starring Felipe Eluti. Previously, Felipe worked as an editor on the Spanish-language drama La Mujer de Iván (2011), and went on to act in Lucio A. Rojas’ Trauma (2017).
The Unsolved Love Hotel Murder Case Incident is a 2024 Japanese found-footage horror film written and directed by Guy and Dave Jackson. An Osaka-based, English-born director, the mononymous Guy is known as the director of such films as The Sound of Summer (2022), as well as the short films The Rope Maiden (2013), Difficulty Breathing