Hasan Oswald’s latest work, Higher Love, shines a light on the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States through the lease of horror. What is most interesting about Oswald’s docu-style feature is the way in which horror manifests through the real-life monster of drug addiction and poverty. We follow Daryl Gantt, a struggling blue-collar worker [...]

In Presley Paras' new horror short, the two titular characters named Buffalo and Trout are hired to rob a gang of white supremacists. The two female addicts of unregulated narcotics seem at first to be utterly invincible, likened to that of superhero power, but only so long as their high lasts. There's not a whole [...]

Across multiple cultures, and throughout the centuries, people have long feared the things that go bump in the night. Such is the case in Jeremy Pikwane's feature debut, The Tokoloshe. Preying upon the poor unfortunate souls of Johannesburg is the Tokoloshe; is a mythological creature of Zulu ancient culture, hellbent on haunting a young destitute [...]

Bloodied, bruised and left for dead a man will stop at nothing to exact gruesome revenge on those who wronged him in the black and white claymation gorefest that is Adam Ciolfi’s Filth. The new short offers a gritty modern spin on the Frankenstein legacy, while also inhabiting the dramatic world of the noir aesthetic. Ciolfi even [...]

Left alone as caretaker of a clothing-optional LGBT resort in its off-season, Matt (Mark Cirillo) confronts an unseen threat which wreaks havoc on him under the Palm Springs night sky. But could this unseen antagonist just be figments of Matt's imagination? It is hard to figure out where exactly to begin in critiquing Jody Wheeler’s new short, Hippopotamus, [...]

The short film from director Chloe Carroll, The Housewife, teases a demonic presence at suppertime. A wholesome and outdated stereotype of a suburban family gather together for dinner in the preceding twenty minutes - plenty of time for a demonic entity that plays with the daughter to enter the body of her kitchen-bound mother. With a [...]

Nikyatu Jusu's new film, Suicide By Sunlight, manages to pull off a refreshing, masterful, and evocative twist upon the legacy of vampires in cinema while exercising our expectations in this blood-loving territory of the horror genre. The praised Sundance selection also pays homage to revolutionary works in black film and horror to come before it, such [...]