Dreams of Flesh is a sci-fi horror film completed in 2024, where Davide Pesca is the writer and director along with co-writer Fabrizio Pastura. The film is part three of a trilogy of Pesca’s cyberpunk features, originating from Night of Doom and continued by Re-Flesh in the years 2021 and 2022 respectively. A well known […]
Now that’s a little creepy: Sander Maran’s Chainsaws Were Singing, which was set to be the opening film for the current Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (HÕFF), won the award for Best Estonian Genre Film on Sunday. It likewise went home with the Audience Award as well. “Haapsalu had its usual share of chainsaw
Gunfighter Paradise: This strange little tale speaks about Stoner (Braz Cubas), an assassin who has recently come back to North Carolina after the death of his mother. The elderly woman left for her son a series of notes, written in a code that will only lead him on a winding journey through hell. He meets
Spiders. Of ALL the creatures to terrorize the people, these are the preferred ones? Those of us who let out a gasp at the sight of a spider can come to testify that many legged arachnids are an easy source of horror. Most of us don’t really appreciate being greeted by these visitors on our
On very few occasions have I been asked to evaluate an application. My area of (arguably) specialization is films and shows, and ‘Mosaic’ by director Steven Soderbergh can be regarded as either that or a combination of the two – but at the end of the day it is only an application. So: my very
While Joko Anwar, an Indonesian horror filmmaker, has been active for some time, he only came into international attention after the release of the movie Satan’s Slaves (2017) that is his remake of Sisworo Gautama Putra’s movie made in 1980 of the same title. Since the audience has been wonderful Shanghai Nightmare managed to incorporate
In this movie, there are few Indonesian actors such as Bulan Sutena, Catherine Wilson, Yama Carlos, and others. To put it simply, the film Rambut Kafan is about Anwar (Yama Carlos) and his daughter Tari (Senin Sutena), who are from a good family. All was going well except that their mother went through a miscarriage
Temurun is an Indonesian cinema that exposes you to horror and thrill and keeps threatening you as the movie nears the end. With weird practices and some startling events in the story, it keeps you fascinated, but gets you clueless with its practical conclusion. In addition, it seems to attempt to deliver a message which further
The experimental feature film that is Nyctophobia by Seayoon Jeong is something really unique. This, however, is not a very accommodating feeling. In fact, when trying to comprehend what it is that you are actually looking at, one finds that one has to contend with its peculiar style and central character development. This however, is
Generic dialogue, and the missing depth of most of the characters kills what is a sometimes interesting film, which is classic ‘Sunrise’, at its most effective when it has the rawness of one of the greatest vampire films there has ever been, ‘Near Dark,’ but that is never the case, almost. Again, we are in
