Our friends at Del Toro Films are co-presenting Patrik Mosquera’s feature debut Colombian horror flick, Six: Game of Death, during Marche du Film at Cannes next month.
Ella Bruccoleri, Laurie Davidson, Dónal Finn, Indira Varma, Richard E. Grant and Ruth Jones star in Sarah Quintrell’s adaptation of Janice Hadlow’s novel.
Summer camp for genre film nerds is back for it’s thirtieth anniversary edition. LFG! The first wave of titles for this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival is here and it is full of films from faves and friends of the ScreenAnarchy family. Films from our friends Jenn Wexler (The Last Temptation of Becky) and Casey Walker (Home Bodies) will be having their World Premieres during the festival. We also get new films from faves like Giddens Ko (Kung Fu) and Fantasia’s go-to time-travel screenwriter, Makoto Ueda (Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, River), who is making their feature film directorial debut with You Are The Film. The list of other World Premieres feature Hot Spot, the new film from Polish autuer Agnieszka Smoczyńska (The Lure), queer vampire…
Directed by Shūkō Murase, the second installment of the trilogy balances military actions with outright rebellion.
Though we are well beyond the recent pandemic, Gen Z still feels the suffocation of those lockdown days, which makes it understandable why they remain fascinated by liminal spaces. Empty or transitional halls, abandoned malls, and lone-standing parking garages all insinuate their very dreaded pandemic-era isolation and the urge to engage with real people once again. Hence, it is no wonder that these “in-between” places reflect a comfortable familiarity with digital existence, turning unsettling atmospheres into a popular aesthetic known as “liminal horror.” The sudden emptying of public spaces created their shared living experience in a “liminal” state. These liminal spaces instantly catch their attention wherever they appear, just as in Kane Parsons’ viral Backrooms YouTube series, which began on January 7, 2022. It was…
It’s sort of a continuation of a home movie. But categorizing the film as either a documentary or a narrative would be doing the film a disservice.
Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing received the Golden Mulberry for Outstanding Achievement at the 28th Udine Far East Film Festival on May 1, at the historic Teatro Nuovo in Udine, Italy. The festival stated that the award is presented to artists who not only master their craft but expand its boundaries — something Fan has consistently achieved over the past three decades. Her recent accomplishments, they noted, demonstrate that she has not rested on past success, but continues to reach new creative heights. Fan aspired to become an actress at the age of twelve, and by seventeen had already risen to fame through the hit television series My Fair Princess. Her status as one of China’s most bankable stars was further cemented by Cell…
Renny Harlin directs Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley in a plane-crash meets sharks movie.