Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Michael Gabriele’s Unholy Night twists together the campiness of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the cheery terror of Krampus, and the sobering aftertaste of Camille Griffin’s[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Angus Silver’s Insectasy aims for bizarro eroticism, but it neither gets gross and weird enough nor sexually charged enough to arouse the senses. Its sticky[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Casey Walker’s Home Bodies robotically shuffles between homage and a sleepy The Twilight Zone carbon copy. Sci-fi thrillers can so easily fall into the Black[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Tim Riedel’s Ancestral Beasts follows a well-trodden path of familial roots, burying the past, and learning to move on. But it fails to generate anything[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Kasper Kalle’s No Rest for the Wicked adapts the 1884 short story, Manor, written by German author and out gay man Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Someone’s Daughter arrives like a hive of angry bees in a hot tin roof. Von Carolsfeld, who co-wrote the script with Doug[...]
JustWatch.com Gianluca Lasaracina’s Watchful Eyes is your standard found footage film—until it isn’t. Lasaracina, who co-wrote the script with Riccardo Silli and Filippo Tancredi, shows great respect for the first-person[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Makoto Ueda surprises with his directorial debut, You Are the Film. At a time when theatrical tentpole films push creative and thematic boundaries, seeing an[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Ian Faria’s Big Break is sure to be a romping crowd pleaser. The film mines the comedy/horror chops of genre titans such as Josh Ruben,[...]
Much like AI itself, AI-focused horror permeates our lives these days. And not every single film or TV show works (e.g., Chris Weitz’s 2024 film, Afraid). When it hits, though,[...]
The slasher renaissance continues raging on with Michael Leavy’s Stream. When it comes to a post-Scream world, slashers either comment on current culture or harken to the slasher boom of[...]
2026 is a banner year for horror. While Backrooms and Obsession wrecked the box office, there are dozens of indie films that were just as good as, if not better[...]
Fantasia Film Festival‘s 30th edition is less than two weeks away! It seems just like yesterday that the 2025 festival took place. This year’s lineup might be the best yet,[...]
Steven Espinoza’s Go to Sleep may be a bit of a, well, sleeper. A FoundTV original, the film follows a newly separated man suffering from sleepwalking. His midnight wanderings become[...]
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and[...]
