by Michael Gingold | May 18, 2026 | News
“COLONY,” from “TRAIN TO BUSAN’s” Yeon Sang-ho, sets North American premiere at New York Asian Film Festival; director comments By MICHAEL GINGOLD The new take on zombies just won a standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival world premiere. Having reinvented the...
by Michael Gingold | May 17, 2026 | News
Teaser for Na Hong-jin’s Cannes-premiering creature feature gives us lots to “HOPE” for By MICHAEL GINGOLD The director of the acclaimed THE WAILING and THE CHASER pulls out all the stops in his latest feature. Neon has released the first teaser trailer for HOPE,...
by Payton McCarty-Simas | May 17, 2026 | Interviews
INTERVIEW: Candy and Grime! Director Natalie Erika James And The Cast Of “SACCHARINE” By PAYTON McCARTY-SIMAS SACCHARINE, from Natalie Erika James, director of Relic and Apartment 7A, is a new, hauntingly empathetic take on eating disorders. When medical...
by Rue Morgue Manor | May 15, 2026 | Deep Dives
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...
by Rue Morgue Manor | May 15, 2026 | CANNES 2026 | FANTASTIC PAVILION REPORT
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...
by Michael Gingold | May 15, 2026 | News
Acclaimed “EXORCIST II” doc “BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL” gets distribution and dates By MICHAEL GINGOLD The standout saga of the much-troubled sequel will see release this late summer/fall. Yellow Veil Pictures has announced its acquisition of North American rights to...
by Michael Gingold | May 15, 2026 | Exclusives, News
Exclusive poster for Fantasia-premiering chiller “FERINE” has the meats By MICHAEL GINGOLD The Italian production stars ODDITY’s Carolyn Bracken. We’ve got the first look at a teaser poster (designed by Advista Studio) for FERINE, which world-premieres at this year’s...
by Michael Gingold | May 15, 2026 | Interviews
Special Report: The new breed of YouTubers turned fright filmmakers By MICHAEL GINGOLD During the 1970s and into the 1980s, film schools were the breeding ground for some of the most popular and distinctive moviemakers. Around the mid-’80s, Hollywood turned to the...
by Jillian Kristina | May 14, 2026 | Piercing the Veil
PIERCING THE VEIL: “HERESY” Ain’t No Crime By JILLIAN KRISTINA The dark holds vast worlds within its skeletal arms, realms teeming with entities who rise from stories told over and over again until they sink into the bones of a place, stories...
by Rue Morgue Manor | May 14, 2026 | CANNES 2026 | FANTASTIC PAVILION REPORT
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...
