Argentinian horror film The Returned (Los que vuelven, 2019) is set in 1919 in the jungles that border that country and Brazil, where something supernatural and sinister resides, far beyond the understanding of the wealthy landowners who exploit the area ...

Director Im KwonTaek’s The Divine Bow (Shingung, 1979, South Korea) is a drama about the traditional Korean religion of shamanism and features several scenes of rituals and exorcisms. It should be noted, though, that this is far from a horror ...

New Zealand horror comedy Dead (2020) concerns David “Marbles” Malwich (Thomas Sainsbury), a stoner who has opened the doors to communicating with the dead after combining marijuana with his late father’s neurological medicine. Content with merely helping the living say ...

A couple in a troubled marriage find themselves held hostage in a high-tech vacation rental home in the thriller Held (U.S.A., 2020). Emma Barrett (Jill Awbrey, who also wrote the screenplay) arrives at the isolated property before her husband Henry ...

Irish/U.K. production Boys from County Hell (2020) is a smart, fun approach to putting a new spin on vampire films. Playing with tropes on how vampirism spreads, how these undead attain the human blood on which they feed, and how ...

James (Daniel Stern) and James (Jonas Chernick) have a talk in James vs His Future Self. Canadian science-fiction comedy James vs. His Future Self (2019) sees older James (genre-film stalwart Daniel Stern in a thoroughly engaging performance) travel back in ...

This year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN; Bucheon, South Korea) boasted some fine international crime cinema as part of its intriguing selection of genre-film fare.

As rich in family drama as it is in its fear-fare elements, Relic looks at generational and familial dynamics.

Cosmic horror and body horror make for a potent, deadly duo in The Beach House (2019), the debut feature from writer/director Jeffrey A. Brown. Though the film serves up tropes previously explored by the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen ...

The film avoids the tropes of “lovers facing a terminal illness” movies for the most part, offering instead a quirky, sometimes acerbic, original take on such subject matter.