"It’s a movie for anyone who’s ever dreaded having family come to visit, or had a guest overstay their welcome, or felt they had to smile when they didn’t feel like smiling. It’s a movie for introverts. It’s a movie that creates a safe space for feeling bad" - Nick Toti The post TIFF-Bound Filmmakers Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti Wrap Their Next Feature “HOMEBODY” appeared first on Rue Morgue ..read more

On this premiere episode of "LISTEN TO MY NIGHTMARE," Aaron Von Lupton takes us on a terrifyingly tuneful tour of the weird world of avant-garde horror music. The post NOW ON RUE MORGUE TV: Welcome to “LISTEN TO MY NIGHTMARE” appeared first on Rue Morgue ..read more

KRYPTIC blends a search for self with a search for cryptids. The post Fantasia ‘24 Movie Review: “KRYPTIC” Searches for Metaphorical and Literal Monsters appeared first on Rue Morgue ..read more

READY OR NOT’s Samara Weaving plays horror/action hero again in this one. The post IFC Films and Shudder grab E.L. Katz’s “AZRAEL,” from “LONGLEGS” producers, and set fall date appeared first on Rue Morgue ..read more

It demonstrates the pitfalls of putting the metaphor before the monster, so to speak. The post Fantasia ’24 Movie Review: “THE BEAST WITHIN” loses its monstrous message appeared first on Rue Morgue ..read more

Fantasia ’24 Movie Review: “CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING” is pretty bloody funny By MICHAEL GINGOLD Starring Karl-Joosep Ilves, Laura Niils and Janno Puusepp Written and directed by Sander Maran Mariani Bros. Really, you’ll probably know just from looking at the photo above whether you want to see CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING. This Estonian production is a gloriously excessive and thoroughly incorrect ode to blood and gore and inappropriate behavior, with musical numbers too. Writer/director Sander Maran introduced the raucously received international premiere screening at Montreal’s Fantasia festival ..read more

Ho-ho-horror in the teaser trailer and new poster for “TERRIFIER 3” By MICHAEL GINGOLD There’s now a preview of the holiday fear Art the Clown is bringing to theaters nationwide in October. Cineverse releases TERRIFIER 3, the third in writer/director Damien Leone’s highly successful and extremely bloody series, on October 11. David Howard Thornton is back, of course, as the murderous Art the Clown, with Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliott Fullam and Chris Jericho returning from TERRIFIER 2, joined by horror vets Daniel Roebuck and Clint Howard, Antonella Rose, Krsy Fox, Jon Abrahams&n ..read more

NEW COLUMN: Let’s Get Hammered! The Blasphemous Bar Crawl Stop #1 – 1972’s “HORROR EXPRESS” By DR. BENNY GRAVES As you enter the town tavern, the full moon shines like a dead eye. Your joints ache from a day of work. Sliding onto a well-worn bar stool, the gregarious barkeep looks at you with a knowing glance. “One of those days eh? I know something that will cure what ails you!” You need that – an escape from the drudgery of the day, from the strange happenings and disappearances in town. This madness began when a new owner bought the dilapidated castle on the hill, a ruin with a cursed hi ..read more

New trailer takes you deeper into the weird world of “CUCKOO” By MICHAEL GINGOLD The August release definitely lives up to its title. Neon releases CUCKOO, writer/director Tilman Singer’s follow-up to his acclaimed LUZ, to theaters nationwide August 9; it also plays at Montreal’s Fantasia festival Tuesday, July 30. Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, Jan Bluthardt, Greta Fernandez and Mila Lieu star; the synopsis: “Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen [Schafer] leaves her American home to live with her father [Csokas], who has just moved into a resort in the German Alp ..read more

Fantasia ’24 Movie Review: “VULCANIZADORA” Takes a Hike with Uncertainity Starring Joshua Burge and Joel Potrykus Written and directed by Joel Potrykus Sob Noisse Movies By DEIRDRE CRIMMINS Perhaps the easiest way to describe writer/director Joel Potrykus’s VULCANIZADORA is “disarming.” The film begins with uneasy simplicity, and then slowly lowers both the audience and the characters into a darker, and sometimes intentionally awkward, premise. Potrykus’s films tend to teeter on this edge of metaphysical absurdity and grounded humanity. In The Alchemist Cookbook – perhaps his most approacha ..read more