Hostile Dimensions review at FrightFest: Scary, funny sci-fi on a budget
Graham Hughes’ found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world
The J-Horror Virus review: Delving into a cultural phenomenon
Sarah Appleton and Jasper Sharp’s cross-cultural documentary traces the origins and influences of a Japanese horror genre.
Hostile Dimensions: Delving into found-footage with director Graham Hughes
Found-footage mockumentary Hostile Dimensions sees two documentary filmmakers discover a door that leads to multiple worlds. We find out more with the movie’s writer and director Graham Hughes…
“I’m glad we got the amount of blood we were able to get.” Erik Bloomquist on his new slasher Founders Day
We speak to Founders Day director and co-writer Erik Bloomquist.
Cinema The Dive Review: A deep dive story of survival in extremis
Maximilian Erlenwein’s breathless thriller traps an experienced diver under water, with her estranged sister her only lifeline.
The Adams Family head to FrightFest
Filmmaking family the Adams will be attending FrightFest 2023 to give advice to aspiring filmmakers and show their latest horror, Where The Devil Roams. We found out more…
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2023: SciFiNow Top Picks
There’s plenty to look forward to at this year’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest. Here are SciFiNow’s Top Picks from the horror festival…
New Life review at Fantasia: A tense, breathless chase movie
In John Rosman’s genre-inf(l)ected chase movie, the future of humanity may depend on an ordinary woman turned fugitive.
It Lives Inside review at Fantasia: Cross-cultural identity, assimilation and absorption
In Bishal Dutta’s horror hybrid, It Lives Inside, an adolescent Indian-American risks losing her own soul to cultural conformity
Pandemonium review at Fantasia: A dark and grotesque (divine) comedy
Quarxx’s eschatological epic confronts its sinful characters with the Hell waiting just on the other side of the door.
Eight Eyes review at Fantasia: A heady love letter to 70s exploitation cinema
Austin Jennings’ feature debut tells a contemporary tale – with retrospective stylings – of American tourists entrapped in local ritual
What You Wish For review: A generous serving of social allegory | Fantasia
With this taut culinary thriller, Nicholas Tomnay serves up a darkly comic allegory of the moral iniquities of global economics.
FrightFest 2023: SciFiNow hosts screening of Adams family’s latest horror
We’re hosting a screening of the Adams family’s Where The Devil Roams PLUS we’re giving away a pair of tickets to the screening itself!
T Blockers review at Fantasia: Monstrous metamovie explores trans experience
Alice Maio Mackay’s monstrous metamovie explores trans experience through alien parasitic invasion plotting.
River review at Fantasia 2023: Looping sci-fi adventure
In Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future.
The Sacrifice Game review at Fantasia: A whole world of diabolical desire
Jenn Wexler’s Seventies-set school invasion horror lets Manson-esque cultists and abandoned pupils raise some hell together
Where The Devil Roams review at Fantasia: A grotesque carnivalesque tale
The Poser/Adams’ latest family outing is a carnivalesque tale of a clan sticking – and stitching – together in Depression-Era America.
Raging Grace Review at Fantasia 2023: Creepy portrait of family and class divides
In Paris Zarcilla’s modern gothic feature debut, a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses.
Cinema Herd: Zombie action horror to premier at FrightFest
Check out the trailer for upcoming action horror, Herd, which will be having its world premier at this year’s FrightFest.
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest full line-up revealed for 2023
Feast your eyes on the gloriously gruesome delights of the 2023 Pigeon Shrine FrightFest line-up…
