It has been a long road for Ethan Berger’s directorial debut The Line to hit the big screen. The film, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival where it wowed critics and audiences, struggled to get picked up for […]
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When a heartbroken teenage playwright, her younger brother, and a disparate group of survivors become trapped in a historical reenactment village on Halloween night, they must band together to survive a relentless assault by a sentient and vengeful pumpkin. Justin Harding’s horror comedy Carved is coming to Hulu on October 21st, part of their Huluween festivities. The official trailer was released this afternoon, check it out below. We’ve included some first look stills in the gallery as well. Peyton Elizabeth Lee leads the cast with Corey Fogelmanis, Wyatt Lindner, Carla Jimenez, Sasha Mason, Jonah Lees, DJ Qualls, Marc-Sully Saint-Fleur, Elvis Nolasco, Matty Cardarople, Jackson Kelly, and Chris Elliott. Directed by Justin Harding, “Carved” is based on the short film of the same…
In these stressful times where every nickel counts (we no longer have pennies in Canada) anywhere you can save money feels like winning the lottery. But what if you need to get your freak on and celebrate spooky season but cannot afford one, two, three, and more subscriptions to streamers to scratch that itch? Here in North America, an upcoming free-to-air and free-to-stream TV channel dedicted to horror called Scream TV may be the solution you’re looking for. From the description it sounds like ScreamTV will operate like Tubi or PlutoTV, sticking to a schedule of daytime and nighttime programming. The program schedule will be on the main page scream-tv.com when everything goes live on October 18th. Read up on all the confirmed…
Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night. MadS, the French single take outbreak horror written and directed by David Moreau, starts streaming on Shudder on October 18th. The official trailer has debuted today, go check it out down below. Look for our review closer to…
Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki, Plastic is heartwarming in an unobtrusive way. Two teenagers meet in the town of Nagoya, Japan. One is a girl who wears flowy clothes. One is a boy with beach blonde hair. They both like the band Exne Kedy, and I must admit, the soundtrack is incredibly fun. It is inspired by Kensuke Ide’s 2021 concept album Strolling Planet ’74 – in the sense that the band pretends to be a 70s glam rock group in this film. Ibuki (An Ogawa) starts dating Jun (Takuma Fujie). We cut to a time-skip. Then another, then another. Plastic takes into account how people and life evolve, notably working with the early pandemic period. There’s an amazing amount of both humour and youth. There…
AJ’s life is so perfect – buttered toast breakfasts, low stress job, regular meals with his dad and his friends, and regular trips to the dog park for his two puppies – that even his boss understands why he won’t […]
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Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili has found a safe space in the U.S. via newish distributor Metrograph Pictures who acquired the North American rights to the Venice Special Jury Prize winner. Hailed as the best film (tied alongside The Brutalist) to come out of Venice by our chief film critic Nicholas Bell who praised (read our 4-star review) April for how it “drifts into stagnation, every visual moment is feeding into the themes of the film, including the multiple escapes into the mercurial nature of spring, rife with blossoming fertility but also presenting a fragile landscape vulnerable to destruction.… Read the rest
Our friends at the Telluride Horror Show down in Colorado have revealed the lineup for this year’s event. Celebrating it’s fifteenth year it’s the best weekend you can ever have during spooky season in the Centennial State. This year, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence will close out the weekend while festival faves like A Desert, Dark Match, Daddy’s Head, Dead Talents Society, Parvulos, The Rule of Jenny Pen and The Soul Eater are among the list of feature films playing this year. The weekend always includes an author’s program and this year our friend Grady Hendrix will be joined by another author whose works I’ve read, Jeremy Robert Johnson. Other books I’m going to have to read now come from other guest authors including Rachel…
