The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Lund, Sweden) from September 27 until October 5. Hungarian film His Master’s Voice (Az Úr hangja, 2018) is a trippy, challenging work focused on a man’s search for ...

The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. Dark Encounter (U.K., 2019) is an alien abduction film unlike pretty much any other that has come before. It’s an odd beast, in the best ...

The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, which was held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. A woman who is convinced her baby was delivered by caesarean section and kidnapped by a shadowy cult tries to convince skeptical authorities ...

Come to Daddy (2019) is that most difficult of beasts to review: a film that has so much to recommend, including many secrets, successful twists, and brilliant performances, but giving away too much would spoil the movie. Loaded with uncomfortable ...

Retro-feel science fiction offering The Vast of Night (U.S., 2019) is homage done right. With loving nods to Rod Serling’s original run of The Twilight Zone, director Andrew Patterson’s debut feature uses that beloved, classic television series as a springboard ...

Investing a police procedural film with elements grounded in the real world and hints of the supernatural is not an easy balancing act because viewers who are not interested in the latter element may find themselves unwilling to suspend disbelief ...

Canadian director Bruce McDonald serves up a beautifully imagined and gorgeously realized offering with his latest film, the genre-blending Dreamland. With its story of two very different men who look hauntingly alike and an act of violence that causes them ...

The first edition of the North Bend Film Festival took place from 23–26 August in North Bend, Washington, the original shooting location for David Lynch’s Twin Peaks television series. The festival’s goals are “to fill the void of programming for ...

The New York Asian Film Festival offers a wealth of fantastic cinema in its Savage Seventeenth edition, being held 29 June–15 July, 2018, in New York City. Among its horror and cult film offerings are the Japanese horror comedy One ...

Florida’s Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the Southeast United States’ largest gathering of genre films and fans, returns for its fourth annual cinematic celebration of the monstrous, the macabre, and the mysterious from 10–16 August. The fest takes place at the ...