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Filipino provocateur Khavn de la Cruz reimagines colonial-era Philippines through a fractured cinematic lens, blending experimental visuals with silent cinema aesthetics to unravel a surreal and haunting exploration of history, violence, and national trauma.
In the interview with Screen Anarchy, Khavn de la Cruz—a boundary-pushing Filipino filmmaker known for his avant-garde approach—opens up about his latest cinematic venture, Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge. Screened at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival, whre the film won the prize for the Best Feature Film (read the news), the film offers a unique, surrealist interpretation of Makamisa, an unfinished novel by the Filipino national hero José Rizal. Melding surrealist cinema with historical roots, Khavn describes the film as a provocative blend of early 20th-century cinematic techniques and experimental storytelling that challenges conventional genre boundaries. Throughout the conversation, Khavn reveals his creative journey from the film’s inception in the ’90s to its rebirth decades later, inspired by both historical events and his own artistic evolution….
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We have your first look at the official trailer for Samuel Haun’s supernatural thriller Wicked Season. Uncork’d Entertainment is releasing the flick on Digital and On Demand on November 5th. Take a gander down below and see if this is up your alley. Three detectives follow the trail of a copycat serial killer to an abandoned insane asylum, only to find they’ve been lured there by something far more sinister. Ah, the irresistable lure of the abandoned insance asylum. Other than summer camps and shopping malls few structures are such a beacon for disaster. Supernatural Thriller WICKED SEASON Available On Digital and On Demand November 5 Uncork’d Entertainment is releasing WICKED SEASON, a supernatural thriller On Digital and On Demand November…
Aaron Fradkin delves into discusses the unique challenges of using personal spaces to amplify fear, blending vintage horror aesthetics with modern pacing, and drawing on feedback from his viral YouTube shorts to craft scares that resonate deeply.
American indie filmmaker Aaron Fradkin fuses old-school horror aesthetics with modern found footage techniques to deliver a multi-generational tale of supernatural terror, unfolding within a cursed New England home.
In Michael Pierro’s darkly satirical debut, a cash-strapped cab driver plunges into a digital enslavement where the promise of easy money reveals a world of moral decay, autonomy lost, and the high stakes of a gig economy spiraling out of control.
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Best Picture winner arrives to Criterion 4K UHD.
Not only is Halloween thankfully upon us, but the next major holiday, Thanksgiving, at least in America, is next. That can only mean one thing: it’s time for a re-watch of Addams Family Values! Our friends at Paramount Home Entertainment sent me a copy of their newest release of the 1993 Barry Sonnenfeld film, which comes out tomorrow, October 29th. You may have heard of Sonnenfeld, who not only directed the previous film, The Addams Family, as well as Men in Black and Get Shorty. Previously, he was the director of photography on a litany of Hollywood films, such as Misery, Miller’s Crossing, Big, Blood Simple, and many more. The official synopsis: Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) welcome a new addition to the…
A late night altercation on a dark and stormy night leaves Maxime’s girlfriend Dylan with a life threatening head wound. Given the circumstances surrounding how Dylan got injured Max can’t take her to the hospital so she takes her to Samantha’s house, who might be a black market surgeon for ne’er-do-wells around the city, who also happens to be Max’s mom. Samantha has a futuristic healing machine in her attic but there is a complication. It cannot heal the wound unless it can map Dylan’s memories and the nature of the injury prevents it from doing that. The machine needs to locate Dylan’s ‘essential memory’ and someone has to go into her mind and find it. Samantha needs to stay outside and watch over…
Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s enigmatic look at pulsating revolutionary Cuba is “reality through bombast.”
