Ils follows school teacher Clémentine (Olivia Bonamy) and her boyfriend Lucas (Michaël Cohen), who recently relocated from France to a remote McMansion in Romania. Clémentine arrives...
“Horror [films] should be a space of freedom, a territory for experimentation. But what happens is often the opposite.” These are the words of Pascal Laugier,...
Inside follows Sarah Scarangella (Alysson Paradis), a pregnant professional photographer who is still mourning the recent loss of her husband. On one unfortunate Christmas Eve, Sarah’s...
Calvaire follows Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas), a traveling singer on the way to his next gig. On a dark and stormy night, his van breaks down....
What is New French Extremity? The term New French Extremity originated in film journalist James Quandt's article “Flesh & Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French...
Martyrs (2008) is infamously known as one of the most disturbing films of the 21st century. It is often considered a standout of the New French...
Demonlover (2002) follows a French-based company, Volf Corporation, which is in the process of acquiring a Japanese animation studio. Diane (Connie Nielsen) is leading the acquisition...
Franck de Rolan (Paul Hamy) finds himself in a small mountain town as he looks into the mystery of disappearing children. On his way to town,...
There are only so many times I can get away with burying the lede with an editorial headline before someone...
I’m going to begin this conversation with a sort of insane thought. Halloween as a franchise maybe should have ended...
It’s officially Halloween season, and a great time to remind everyone that the word “spook” is a slur. Like many...
Pork roll or taylor ham? Asbury Park or Long Branch? Which classmate should you cannibalize while stranded in the woods?...
No one knew that when The Conjuring came out in 2013, it would become the ghost story of the decade,...
Legacy sequels are not a new invention in the horror genre. The 2020s have seen several horror legacy sequels keeping...
A young person, raised by a scientist and seemingly simple minded by design, discovers their inner hedonist. In their quest...
The commonality between horror fandom and the Queer community is well established. For years, the genre so often marginalized and...
“I’m going to make a deer hunter out of you,” my father told me right after I was born. This...
[This article contains spoilers] Prior to the disestablishment of the Hays’ Code, filmmakers had to make depictions of cannibalism more...