When you find out about a horror film festival named after the opening lines of a famous Simon and Garfunkel song, you know you're onto something special. And so it is with Hello Darkness, the latest genre filmfest on the...

[Just over two weeks away from the 13th annual Reel Asian International Film Festival here in Toronto. Got my first look at a Filipino horror film for first time. Yanggaw plays Thursday, November 12th at Innis Town Hall @... More >>

[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.] Releasing in what has become the year of the vampire, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) is another film aimed squarely at the teen crowd,... More >>

Zombie Self-Defense Force (Zombi jieitai) is the first film in the Nihombie series. The film is a lo-fi Japanese zombie slapstick that aspires to Evil Dead II or Dead Alive status, but with a Frank Henenlotter budget. As these...

What a strange new world post-secondary eduction can be. It's hard enough to start over again without upperclassmen telling tales of horror and haunting and daring you to go into the basement, or the bathroom at the end of...

I'm glad to present here the first teaser of Russian fantasy movie called Dark World (Тёмный Мир, Tjomnyj mir), that should be released in more than 6 month and it's still in post-production, so the visuals are not final, but...

Ooh, I love it on those rare occasions when Asian horror invades my town! Macabre, the Indonesian slasher that just enjoyed its European premiere at Sitges, and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, the latest outrageously over-the-top splatter romp from the...

Kickin off Chicago-ween early (or late as the case may be) is one of the premiere horror conventions of the year. FLASHBACK WEEKEND boasts an awesome guestlistRobert "Freddy Krueger"  Englund  himself is signing copies of his new book Hollywood Monster...

The herons are not what they seem... Even though the marketing hints at yet another long-haired ghost movie made to cash in on the decade-old successes of "Ringu" and "The Grudge", Lee Yong-Ju's "Possessed" isn't that at all. In fact,... More >>

Nordic film is in the midst of a drastic paradigm shift.  After decades of being the land of pure arthouse film the new generation is taking over and bringing their love of genre film with them.  We've had ghost...