Category: Film Festivals
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The Adams Family conjures a poetic folk tale in MOTHER OF FLIES – Fantastic Fest 2025
Mother of Flies is haunting yet tranquil. The worlds that the Adams’ create are always moody, mysterious, and so cleverly constructed as to not show the seams of their impressively homegrown horrors.
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Wrap Up! | MovieJawn
“The tenth annual Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is in the books. As our world continues to evolve, as progress is met with regression, and unpacking our existence means exposing new wounds, a film space like Final Girls Berlin continues to be a beacon of light and a hopeful reminder of the ways women and…
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Pop Horror/Carnivalesque Shorts Block – Review | MovieJawn
“To be completely honest, before Final Girls Berlin, I would not be able to tell you what was considered “pop horror.” A succinct definition still evades me, but that seems to be the beauty of the tastefully curated Pop Horror/Carnivalesque shorts block–it is a fantastical arrangement of oopy-goopy and sickly sweet treats like the concession…
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Life Cycles Shorts Block – Review | MovieJawn
This year marks the 10th annual Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, a trailblazing festival showcasing the work of women and nonbinary folks in the genre space. Between talks, workshops, features and over 11 different shorts blocks, Final Girls Berlin 2025 is a feast. I was lucky enough to cover a few of the shorts blocks,…
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The Creep Tapes – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
First premiering ten years ago, Creep (2014) has become a cult classic, especially for fans of found footage. Known by various names like Josef and Wolfy, Mark Duplass’s character has become everyone’s favorite fictional serial killer. His charm lures you in and it is not until it is too late that you notice the strangeness…
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‘9 New Horror Movies to Put on Your Radar’ – Screamfest LA 2024 Recap | FANGORIA
The 24th annual Screamfest LA has come to an end! Featuring a unique selection of iconic anniversary screenings, hidden gems, and anticipated titles that are blazing their way through the festival circuit, this festival covered all the bases of our favorite genre fare. From stories of murderous priests to vengeful witches, here is everything we watched at…
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Drive Back – Screamfest Review | MovieJawn
One little sub-genre, or you could even say micro-genre, that I enjoy is “vacations gone wrong.” Sometimes this means films of the “torture porn” variety like Hostel, or killer plants like The Ruins, and everyone’s favorite backwoods murderous cannibal families like in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, or Wrong Turn. With…
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Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
It is no surprise that one of my favorite films of Fantastic Fest 2024 is by Stuart Ortiz, better known as half of the directing team The Vicious Brothers. Both as a fan of found footage and a life-long resident of the Inland Empire, I was primed to be the target audience for Strange Harvest,…
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Interview with Screamfest Founder and Director Rachel Belofsky – FANGORIA
To celebrate the commencement of the 24th Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival, we sat down with Festival Director and Founder Rachel Belofsky to talk about the horror community, her experience as a woman in the film industry, and the inspirations behind Screamfest.
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DRAINED – Screamfest Review | MovieJawn
Stylish and humorous, yet dark and twisted, Drained will take a bite out of the hearts of those who have had their share of unhealthy coping mechanisms–but it will have you coming back for more.
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What Happened to Dorothy Bell? – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
Found footage and the paranormal goes together like peanut butter and jelly, and Danny Villanueva Jr.’s second feature was perfectly put together with love like the sandwiches your grandma prepared for you
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Daddy’s Head – Fantastic Fest Review
Benjamin Barfoot’s sophomore feature turns grief into a creature that will reach into the back of your skull, forcing you to relive childhood nightmares you thought you had forgotten.
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Preview: 24th Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival
Founded in 2001 by Rachel Belofsky and Ross Martin, this festival has a long history of giving a platform to horror, thriller, and sci-fi filmmakers, earning it the nickname “the Sundance of Horror.” Premiering now legendary horror titles like Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity in 2007 and helping contribute to the success of filmmakers like Issa…
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Little Bites – Fantastic Fest Review | MovieJawn
Musician-turned-director Spider One’s personal film about the fears of parenthood, Little Bites, just had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest! The film opens on Mindy as a bell beckons her downstairs to a small dark room. Behind this wooden door is a creature who feeds on her one little bite at a time. Despite her…
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Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
The allure of Girl Internet Show is not just the belly-aching guttural laughter but the underlying ideas that Kati Kelli expresses through her strange creations. Due to its unconventional nature, it is unsure what the future is for Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape
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Dead Talents Society – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
An electrifying take on the rules of the afterlife, celebrity culture, and our fear of being forgotten, John Hsu’s Dead Talents Society is a horror comedy warming the hearts of audiences at this year’s Fantastic Fest.
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Apartment 7A – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
56 years after the release of Rosemary’s Baby, audiences at Fantastic Fest 2024 were whisked back to the Bramford
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Strange Darling – Popcorn Frights Review | MovieJawn
Next up in my coverage of Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2024 for MovieJawn is one of my most anticipated films of the year: Strange Darling (2023). I have been an avid Kyle Gallner fan since the Jennifer’s Body (2009) and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) days. There is nothing he can do that I wouldn’t…
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The Buildout – Popcorn Frights Review | MovieJawn Debut
Hello sirens! I’m sure you’ve noticed that I have started to populate the site with what I have been working on lately! One of the most exciting of my recent endeavors is finally becoming a Staff Writer for MovieJawn. My first assignment was covering a few films for Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2024! First up…
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