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Panic Film Festival
Panic Fest ‘23 Movie Review: Sadistic Aussie Slasher “BLISS OF EVIL” Capitalizes On Trauma
Josh Morris’ BLISS OF EVIL nobly features queer characters and tackles issues of sexual assault, yet, its handling of those…
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Grace Detwiler
Panic Fest ’23 Movie Review: A Witch Takes Vengeance in Animated Nightmare “AGATHA”
Produced over the course of a decade and filmed via DIY motion capture technology in the filmmakers’ own home, AGATHA…
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Grace Detwiler
Panic Fest ’23 Movie Review: World Premiere “BLACK MOLD” Will Grow On You
While exploring a decrepit and abandoned facility, an auspicious photographer faces off against her traumatic past in John Pata's BLACK…
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Grace Detwiler
Panic Fest ’23: “ABRUPTIO” Brings the Voices of Sid Haig, Jordan Peele, James Marsters, Robert Englund, and More to Kansas City
HellBent Pictures is excited to announce the next screening of Evan Marlowe's life-sized puppet horror ABRUPTIO at Panic Fest, Kansas…
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Grace Detwiler
Kansas City’s Panic Fest Announces Hybrid Programming For 2023
Universal Pictures’ new Dracula horror-comedy "Renfield," starring Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult as Renfield and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as The…
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Grace Detwiler
Downright Creepy Launches Short Film Collection “Midnight Snack”
Downright Creepy, in partnership with their Panic Fest filmmakers, is bringing you some of their favorite short films from the…
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Grace Detwiler
Panic Fest ‘21: “THE OLD WAYS” Exorcises Personal and Literal Demons
Marcos Gabriel's Brujeria-influenced shocker is an all-around good and scary effort.
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Deirdre Crimmins
Panic Fest ‘21: “KATHERINE’S LULLABY” aka “CAPTIVE” Is An Uncomfortable Study Of The Relationship Between Captor And Captive
A teenage runaway who's trapped by a delusional man pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.
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Grace Detwiler
Panic Fest ‘21: Descend “BELOW THE FOLD” Of Small-Town Missouri In Clayton Scott’s Debut Investigative Thriller
Without a trace, Susie Potter vanished from her home in the quiet town of Skidmore, Missouri. Ten years later two…
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Grace Detwiler
Panic Fest ‘21: Australian Indie “AN IDEAL HOST” Takes Dinner Party Horror To Gnarly New Heights
Liz just wants to host the perfect dinner party but an unexpected guest sends the evening into chaos, with potentially…
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Grace Detwiler
PANIC FILM FEST ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR HYBRID IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL ONLINE PROGRAMMING
Panic Fest kicks off two weeks of genre packed programming as the ninth annual festival begins April 8, 2021, virtually…
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Grace Detwiler
Azura Skye Shines In “The Swerve;” Now Available To Stream
Dean Kapsalis' critically-lauded feature stars the "Buffy" and "American Horror Story" actress as a woman coming undone.
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Rocco T. Thompson