Screen Anarchy

Past spooky season horror fans are always looking for ways to keep that spirit going into the final two months of the year. Christmas is an especially great time of year to keep that horror buzz going as there will always be a handful of horror flicks looking to take the piss out of the holidays.    Keep an eye out for Santastein, the Christmas horror flick and debut feature film from Manuel Camilion and Benjamin Edelman. An official selection of Popcorn Frights and Soho Horror Film Festival Santastein did debut on Screambox last December and will be looking for other platforms to land its ‘slay’ this coming horrorday season.    Check out the trailer below, along with a cool selection of poster variants and a…

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Hur Bum-wook announces himself as a talent to watch with his furious and deranged animated eco-horror parable Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease. A cross between early Yeon Sang-ho animation works like The King of Pigs, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja and Watership Down, the film opens amidst Korea’s foot-and-mouth epidemic of 2010, during which over a million pigs were culled to halt the spread of disease. Beyond the sheer number of animals being slaughtered, many were dismayed by the government’s method of extermination: burying the pigs alive in mass graves. Hur’s film guides us straight into this scene of chaos as thousands of bewildered pigs are heaped on top of each other before mounds of dirt are poured over them. Within the increasingly claustrophobic confines of this…

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