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Documentaries don’t make their way onto Diabolique very often, but Finders Keepers (2015) is an exception. Its premise is so outlandish, so ghoulishly compelling, that there was no way I could let it pass unnoticed.  Reading the film’s synopsis gave me that ...

Jonas Alexander Arnby’s first feature, When Animals Dream (2014), is a self-proclaimed fable about a young woman discovering both her burgeoning sexuality and the inconvenient fact that she’s a werewolf. Having debuted in Critic’s Week at Cannes, it’s one of ...

Izzy Lee’s new short film Postpartum plays on all sorts of fears: fears women have of becoming mothers, and what can happen to them afterwards; fears our society has of what women can turn into once they give birth; and ...

If there’s one type of film that horror fans have probably seen enough of over the past decade or so, it’s the found-footage film. Bookended by The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), the gimmick that has occasionally ...

  Following up on his 2007 book “Horror 101,” editor Aaron Christensen (aka Dr. AC) has published his second anthology of horror-film-appreciation essays, “Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks” via fellow horrorphile Jon Kitley’s “Kitley’s ...

 Details Year: 1960 Length: 118 min Rating: NR Disks: 1 Region: B Label: Studio Canal  Video Resolution: 1080p Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Type: Color  Audio Audio: French/English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Subtitles: English, Spanish Film: [rating=6] Video: [rating=3] ...

 Details Year: 1981 Length: 124 min Rating: BBFC 18 Disks: 1 Region: B Label: Second Sight Films  Video Resolution: 1080p Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Type: Color  Audio Audio: English LPCM Mono Subtitles: English SDH Film: [rating=6] Video: [rating=6] ...

Boston filmmaker Izzy Lee’s first short, Legitimate, may only have a running time of five and a half minutes, but it certainly packs a punch in that time.  Opening on the infamous quote from Senator Todd Akin (“If it’s a ...

Ben Wheatley’s new film Sightseers is a welcome return to form for him, after the promising but rather disjointed Kill List (2011). Sightseers is that rare bird: a comedy so dark that it teeters on the edge of not being ...

Welsh writer/director Caradog James’s second feature, The Machine, asks its audience a difficult question: in an age of artificial intelligence, what does being “human” really mean?  While The Machine, like its namesake in the film, functions well enough—like a diluted ...