Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor’s terrific new documentary, Satan Wants You, focuses primarily on Michelle Remembers (1980), a nominally “nonfiction” book co-written by Michelle…
The cold open of Yugo Sakamoto’s Baby Assassins sequel — called Baby Assassins 2 in boring press materials, while its title card uses the charmingly…
We admit it, we’re gluttons for guts, gore, and genre. An antidote to the flattened, self-serious, and artistically anonymous titles that occupy coveted festival slots…
Please Baby Please It’s the rare film that proves capable of achieving genuine novelty, and even rarer to find one that manages to parlay novelty…
Dark Glasses It’s been a rough couple of decades for Dario Argento. Once hailed as the “Master of Horror” for films like Deep Red (1975),…
Inu-Oh Masaaki Yuasa simply can’t be stopped — or at least that’s what it has seemed like for the past two decades, during which the…
Swallowed Things have been building to this moment for a while, but ever since films like Julia Ducournau’s Raw crossed over to find a mainstream…
The Mole Song: Final The Mole Song: Final is the third and, well, final part of Takashi Miike’s Mole Song series about an undercover cop…
Perhaps the preeminent film festival in the minds of genre aficionados, Fantasia Fest is back in 2022 at arguably the peak of its popularity, coming…
The Sadness Canadian director Rob Jabbaz shot The Sadness, his debut feature, in Taiwan, with a fully Taiwanese cast and script that draws in broad…
All the Moons Though it at first looks like a typical, if particularly handsome, period vampire film, Igor Legarreta’s All the Moons soon distinguishes itself…
Back to the Wharf Li Xiaofeng’s Back to the Wharf begins with a tragic accident that escalates, shockingly, to murder. After high school student Song…
Bull There’s no shortage of revenge pictures out there; at this point, it’s such a well-trod genre that it’s gone through its own classical-to-revisionist-and-back-again cycle.…
Junk Head A stop-motion animated epic over seven years in the making, Junk Head is the work of one obsessively dedicated man, Takahide Hori. An…
Fantasia Fest, one of genre cinephiles’ favorite fests, is back in virtual form this year, kicking off today and celebrating its 25th birthday with a…
Undergods Undergods is a crypto-anthology film that gradually morphs into a distaff network narrative, one of those everyone-is-connected type movies that were all the rage…
The Dark & the Wicked It’s unfortunate that Bryan Bertino’s debut feature was 2008’s The Strangers. The film is the 21st century’s best instance of…
The Reckoning On its face, The Reckoning seems like a strange follow-up for director Neil Marshall, after last year’s mid-budget Hellboy reset. Then again, given…
Alone John Hyams’ new film Alone is a minor miracle. A terrifically tense thriller pared down to the barest essentials, it is survival horror in…
Patrick The elevator pitch for Patrick immediately calls to mind Lukas Valenta Rinner’s A Decent Woman — both films are outré comedies set in the…
Chasing Dream Johnnie To’s Chasing Dream is a return in more ways than one. An earnest romance between an MMA fighter, Tiger (Jacky Heung), and…