★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5 Deaths in the Ring, that is the Thing! The post Dark Match (Fantasia International Film Festival 2024) appeared first on The Scariest Things ..read more

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Highlights include the World Premiere of BEEZEL as well as STRANGE DARLING starring Kyle Gallner on Opening Night; 11 feature film World Premieres including SCARED TO DEATH starring Lin Shaye; a 35th Anniversary Presentation of SOCIETY and the First Showing of the “Lost First Cut” of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 with director Brian Yuzna; a Right “2” Remain Silent Double-Bill of MANIAC COP 2 and PSYCHO COP RETURNS with William Lustig and Adam Rifkin; a 25th Anniversary Presentation of Martin Scorsese’s BRINGING OUT THE DEAD; and a Special Presentation of IFC Films’ SKINC ..read more

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Intensity out of Directed by Razka Robby Ertanto Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 cult classic Possession gets a supernatural Indonesian spin in Possession: Kerasukan. Although the insanity doesn’t match up to the original — How could it?!? — the feature does offer a lot to like. Director Razka Robby Ertanto’s Possession: Kerasukan (2024) is a remake of Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 French/West German coproduction Possession. I actually consider it more of a reimagining, as it takes the original’s themes of obsession and control and puts a rather different spin on them.  There’s no ..read more

The 2024 Thingy Awards!The 2024 Thingy Awards! It is time for the Mid-Year Scariest Things grand celebration: Once again, we surveyed and received votes from our favorite fans and industry contacts to determine the best horror movies of last year. If there were a couple of themes from last year: Possession and Australia. We got a lot of both in 2023, and it was GOOD. It was one of the best years for horror in the past ten years! Welcome to another celebration of the movies from the previous year! Are we late on this? We say resoundingly NO! Many of the best horror movies get launched at film f ..read more

The festival’s 2024 poster art was created by Montreal visual artist Donald CaronThe 28th Fantasia International Film Festival will be running from July 18 through August 4, 2024 in Montreal, and with the amount of amazing films on offer, you’re going to need every one of those days!  Filled with world premiers and special features, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released 3 waves of exceptional programing. Below is just a highlight of a few of the films that have got my attention from the massive list of offerings. You can find all the information about the festival on their ..read more

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024, famous for being the U.K.’s premiere horror film festival, has pulled out all the stops for its 25th edition. From the creepy to the comical, the festival has fear-fare fans of all stripes covered. Dive into the official press announcement following, and then check out www.frightfest.co.uk. Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival, will, for the first time, present its five-day extravaganza at The ODEON Luxe Leicester Square, London, taking over all seven screens, including the two ODEON Luxe West End screens. Running ..read more

Intensity out of Directed by Ti West Years after the events of Texas Porn Film Massacre that was X, our protagonist Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) is where she was always meant to be: Hollywood. Los Angeles is living in fear of The Nightstalker, but Maxine is fearless. She’s the queen of adult films and about to break big because she has landed the staring role in a horror film. When bodies begin to appear that are not connected to the Nightstalker but are connected to Maxine, she takes matters into her own hands to ensure that nothing and no one stands in the way of her rise to fame and the life she ..read more

Willem Dafoe in Nosferatu (2024)Nosferatu is getting a proper big-time treatment in 2024. If you are going to make a period-piece horror film, there is no better person to put in charge than Robert Eggars. The trailer has just dropped, and the film will be released on Christmas 2024. Early Impression? It looks AMAZING. The director of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northmen is taking on the F.W. Murnau masterpiece and making it his own. If, for some reason, you are not familiar with the 1922 film Nosferatu, it is one of the first depictions of the Dracula story put to film. Change Dracula ..read more

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Intensity out of Directed by Damian Mc Carthy  The debut feature from the director of this year’s Oddity is a masterful slice of macabre cinema. A good screenplay and story, solid direction, and all-in performances — along with well-rendered practical effects — can help an independent film succeed despite budgetary limitations. Absolute proof of that statement is provided by the U.K. film Caveat, an eerie tale of memory loss and mystery. Writer/director Damian Mc Carthy (Oddity [see Liz’s enthusiastic review here]) creates a macabre, claustrophobic atmosphere that capti ..read more

Joseph Quinn and Lupita Nyong’o in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Intensity out of Directed by Michael Sarnoski Written by Michael Sarnoski, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods A Quiet Place: Day One scales up the franchise experience in a big way, but it still delivers a wonderfully intimate story. Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn make for an improbable but appealing pair that radiates empathy amongst the chaos of an alien invasion apocalypse in this tightly wound prequel. Some fans, including a couple of the critics at The Scariest Things, questioned the need for another Quite Place movie. What ..read more