Category: Cult Cinema
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Every now and then, cinema gives us a piece of pure, low-IQ perfection. A film so absurdly hyper-masculine that it feels like it was conceived and funded by a room full of concussed linebackers who had just watched Cobra and drunk three crates of cheap lager. Craig R. Baxley’s Stone Cold is that film. Ex-NFL…
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Blood, guts, and mutated killer sheep. This is the kind of shit I live for. Twenty years after unleashing one of the finest horror-comedies to ever come out of New Zealand, writer-director Jonathan King is finally returning to the farm. Umbrella Entertainment has dropped the official trailer for Black Sheeps, and it looks like a…
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Any trailer that has the line: “I’m so glad I found you. There’s a crazy man with a chainsaw. Spoiler alert, it’s me” is always going to grab my attention, especially when it makes me spit out my mouthful of coffee due to laughing. Director Kevin Lewis, the man who gave us Nicolas Cage silently…
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The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has dropped its full program for 2026, locking in eight days of blood-splattered premieres, retrospectives, and late-night drinking at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg from October 15–22. Australian director Nicky Murphy gets things moving on opening night with the U.S. premiere of I Love Paris, a vampire mockumentary about an underground singer…
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If you don’t like films that leave you sitting there wondering what the fuck is actually going on, The Stranger probably isn’t for you. Co-directors Paul Gerrard and Mike Clarke clearly aren’t interested in making things easy. Their feature debut drops us into the familiar territory of the rural British thriller, then starts quietly pulling…
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Okay, I’m not gonna lie. I am rather looking forward to this. YouTube sketch creator Steven He is swapping short-form comedy for full-throttle martial arts chaos, taking his first lead feature role in Kung Fu Deadly. The supernatural action-comedy lands its world premiere on September 18 at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Directed by BAFTA winner…
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Access:Horror has officially dropped its 2026 program, kicking off with an opening night showcase at the Alamo Drafthouse Winchester on September 25 before moving to a month-long virtual run from October 4 through November 1. Founded by filmmaker and activist Ariel Baska, the festival uses genre cinema to push disability advocacy to the front, delivering…
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There is a very specific brand of medical ethics in 1950s cinema that begins and ends with intravenous injections. When a young woman suffering from severe amnesia sits in a psychiatric ward, the doctors don’t bother with therapy, gentle questioning, or basic patient consent. They simply pull out a syringe filled with an experimental cocktail…
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There is something wonderfully strange about watching the opening credits of The Fly from 1958 and seeing Vincent Price sitting there behind David Hedison and Patricia Owens. Third billing. Vincent fucking Price. This is before Price became the Vincent Price we all know and love: the towering presence of gothic horror, the sinister voice, the…
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Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done… … ITN Distribution moved the whole thing to England and gave her a movie where she goes crazy ape bonkers with a hatchet. While Ryan Murphy’s glossy prestige machine prepares to drop Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story…