Cannes 2026: Horror’s New Faces – Five YouTube Creators to Watch BY CHRISTOPHER HEARD Before the festival circuit, before the pitch meetings, there was a camera, an idea, and an audience hungry for something to fear. The creators profiled here built their...
Vampires Rock! The children of the night, what music they make By HARLEIGH KERIAZES “Listen to them, the children of the night, what music they make.” Dracula may have been referring to wolves when he said this, but there’s no denying that throughout the history...
Cannes 2026: Seeing Beyond “The Ring” BY JULIAN SINGLETON In promoting 2016’s Sadako vs. Kayako, director Kôji Shiraishi declared his intent to “destroy J-horror entirely,” taking aim at a once-acclaimed slow-burn tradition he believed had stagnated into...
The Horā! The Horā! Japanese Genre Cinema on the Croisette BY SEAN PLUMMER Mid-August in North America normally sees Hollywood raking in the last box office dregs of its summer blockbusters as families return from vacation and kids head back to school. But the...
Cannes 2026: THE STATE OF SELLING SCARES BY CHRISTOPHER HEARDWith files from SEAN PLUMMER With the Marché du Film open for business in Cannes this week, no corner of the market is running hotter than horror — and the numbers back it up. This past March, Ryan Coogler’s...
