With Mortal Kombat 2 already released and Street Fighter coming out later this year, 2026 appears to be the year of the fighting game movie. To that list we can probably add Paween Purijitpanya’s God Skin as even though it’s not actually adapted from a video game, it’s basically close […]
Movies & Documentaries
I Love Paris (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
There seems to be some confusion in the horror community about mockumentaries so let’s clear that up by saying the key word here is “mock”, which in the context of films means funny, satirical or parodical. Yes, the word can also mean “fake”, but the term faux-documentary already exists and […]
Peril at Pincer Point (I) (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
Genre cinema is in remarkably good health in the U.S. with projects like Backrooms and Obsession signalling a new generation of inventive, internet‑age storytellers and emerging filmmakers who are already making waves. Here in Britain though, genre filmmaking often struggles to find the same cultural momentum, which is why the […]
The Mouths (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
For anyone who remembers the Japanese horror movie boom of the late ’90s and early ’00s, Takashi Shimizu (the man behind Ju‑on), is responsible for some of the most dread‑inducing, skin‑crawling images ever produced, and remains one of the genre’s defining architects. Even before The Mouths begins you know you’re […]
Bowels of Hell (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
Gurcius Gewdner & Gustavo Vinagre’s Bowels of Hell arrives at Fantasia, and for a film with a title like, you’d be forgiven for expecting a riotously loud, messy, frantic, and proudly tasteless slab of Brazilian exploitation cinema, bur what you actually get is something stranger, slower, and far more patient […]
Two Boxes: Televised Terror in Franco’s Spain (1972 & 1974) Unabashed horror that puts most feature lengths to shame
As Transmission’s release this week has it, the 1970s were an interesting time in Spain. A country in flux, Spain was beginning to enjoy and increased economic prosperity that clashed with the Francoist fascist regime the nation had endured for, up until that point, almost forty years. Even the cheesy […]
Tight Lettuce (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
Fantasia always has at least one film that feels like it wandered in from a completely different festival, and this year it’s Harrison Houde’s Tight Lettuce. Based on a true story and described by the festival as a “tender and chaotic portrait of a father and son”, it’s an earnest […]
The Specials (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
Functionally, The Specials is a dance movie – albeit one where killers, hitmen, and assorted hard‑nosed gangster archetypes are offered a lucrative opportunity – go undercover as a dance troupe and infiltrate a contest in order to eliminate a yakuza patriarch. It’s the kind of setup that sounds like a […]
Ancestral Beasts (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026)
We don’t get a lot of Canadian media here in the UK, but the little I’ve experienced from The Great White North shows a much healthier and supportive relationship with indigenous representation. Their neighbours to the south could learn a lot from them as there’s an official Indigenous Screen Office […]
Cruel Hands (2026) A Grim and Tense Domestic Horror of Flight and Fire
A simple premise has great potential, especially in genres that aim for a specific emotional reaction such as action and horror. In the case of Al Kalyk’s domestic horror film, CRUEL HANDS, the premise of a mother and child on the run from an abusive husband leads to an effective […]