There’s nothing better than seeing a Midnight Movie get wildly polarizing reviews after its premiere screening. There’s also nothing worse than having to wait for that movie to play at another festival you’re attending 😒 but it’s always great when a movie is worth the wait! Addison Heimann’s Touch celebrated its world premiere at Sundance 2025 where some Letterboxd users absolutely annihilated the movie. A few examples include: “Touch Me? More like refund me!” or (my personal favorite) “[…] this is genuinely disrespectful […] The post TOUCH ME Review: Divisive Indie Sci-Fi is Pu ..read more

It is so hard to find Horror movies that want to be fun these days. Everything is so serious and depressingly realistic. But thankfully, there is still a small group of filmmakers who just want you to have a good time when you sit down on a Friday night to watch something new. For Sale By Exorcist, from director Melissa LaMartina, is a rip-roaring good time filled with spooky ghosts, goofy gags, and zero complicated metaphors. If you’re looking for something silly […] The post FOR SALE BY EXORCIST Review: The Market is Booming For Indie Horror Comedy appeared first on Nightmare on Fi ..read more

It’s not often that we cover comedies here at Nightmare on Film Street, but when we do they are comedies where laughter is the only defense you have against a full-blown panic attack. And as a Canadian citizen, laughing through full-blown panic attacks is about all I know right now (see: any news story from any news outlet covering US/CAN politics). Indie comedy $Positions, which recently celebrated its World Premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, is truly one of the […] The post $POSITIONS Review: Anxiety-Fueled TragiComedy is The UNCUT GEMS of Crypto [SXSW 2025] appeared first on Nigh ..read more

Borderline wants to be a chaotic thrill ride—a pulpy, twisted home-invasion thriller where a deranged stalker traps a pop star in his delusion of love. And in flashes, it gets there. But for a movie with such an unhinged premise, it feels strangely restrained, like it’s holding back when it should be cranking the tension up to eleven. The performances are solid, the setup is fun, and Penny (Alba Baptista) nearly steals the whole show, but Borderline never fully embraces […] The post BORDERLINE Review: A Twisted Thriller That Doesn’t Quite Cut Deep Enough appeared first on Nightmare on Film Str ..read more

Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they revisit Tarsem Singh’s The Cell (2000), the cult classic that transformed Jennifer Lopez from a pop sensation into a serial killer whisper. A movie that everyone laughed at even though Vincent D’Onofrio delivers a career best performance. A movie where people are given the power to walk through a maniac’s mind like it’s a nightmare-scape amusement park. And yes, a movie where Vince Vaughn has his intestines pulled out by a […] The post [Podcast] THE CELL (2000) appeared first on Nightmare on Film Street ..read more

Where would modern Horror be without characters tearing open their chests to wallow in the cosmically unending cycle of grief? Death is the cornerstone of the genre but where classics of the genre were concerned with the fear of dying, contemporary cinema has largely fixed its gaze on the therapeutic journey of mourning. Julia Max’s grief procedural, The Surrender, is a meditation on the shifting memories of the ones we lose, the torturous journey of accepting the reality of that loss, […] The post THE SURRENDER Review: Grief Gone Wrong and Occult Rituals Abound in Indie Supernatural Slow ..read more

Ben Leonberg’s debut feature Good Boy zeros in on the most anxiety enducing character of every supernatural horror movie….the family dog. Celebrating its World Premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, and staring Leonberg’s own dog in the starring role, Good Boy is shot entirely from the POV of a dog sensing and experiencing the supernatural presence threatening to overtake his owner. It’s an ingenious angle for an overworked subgenre, and one that delivers in spades thanks to its adorable lead, and brilliant direction […] The post GOOD BOY Review: Experience a Supernatural ..read more

Kevin & Matthew McManus return with another signature sci-fi story, exploring the existential ramifications of humanity coming up against something beyond their understanding or control. In their previous feature The Block Island Sound (2020), a family struggles to grieve the slow-progressive loss of their father to dementia while also coming to terms with the existence of an Alien conspiracy. Similarly, their sophomore effort, Redux Redux, follows a grieving mother utilizing the multiverse to kill her daughter’s murderer over and over and over again. […] The post REDUX REDU ..read more

Nightmare on Film Street Returns! Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they kick off a brand-new season of the podcast, revisiting Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) from the late great David Lynch. The world was cruel enough to take one of our most optimistic and original filmmakers this year and we figured no better way to set the stage for this season of the show than by….by getting very sad at the fate of Laura Palmer […] The post [Podcast] TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) appeared first on Nightmare on Film Street ..read more

Sometimes it can feel like a portal to hell has just opened up before you, sucking everything good in life down a deep dark hole of despair. A pretty common feeling these days, if you’re unlucky enough to have eyes or ears. In Woody Bess’ dark comedy Portal To Hell, a depressed debt collector discovers his very own portal to hell in a dryer at his local laundry mat. Featuring supporting performances from Keith David (The Thing), Michael McDonald (Halloween Kills, MadTV) […] The post PORTAL TO HELL Review: A Laundry Mat Becomes The 10th Circle of Hell in Dark Indie Comedy [Slamdance 2 ..read more