

[Review]: Lockbox
Lou Taylor Pucci as Winthrop Based on the podcast Knifepoint Horror, the Daniel Stamm directed psychological horror Lockbox examines the horrors of a person’s mind and how trauma, going untreated, can spill over, affecting everyone in the immediate vicinity. Starring Carla Gugino (Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of The House of Usher) as Ellen who, after moving to small town to deal with the grief of losing her mother, decides to take in her troubled adult

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
5 days ago2 min read


5 Films We’re Dying To See At This Year’s Fantasia Film Fest 2026
Celebrating its 30th edition in 2026 is The Fantasia International Film Festival which will be returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montréal’s Cinéma du Musée, occurring from 16th July through to the 2nd of August, with a plethora of screenings, workshops and events. This year’s incredible lineup is due to include over 125 features and 200+ shorts, appealing to a whole spectrum of genre fans with forays into anime,

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 133 min read


[Review}: Hungry
Courtesy of AURA Entertainment Photo credit: Courtesy of AURA Entertainment For a mammal that kills more people per year than sharks, lions, tigers, and what most people would consider dangerous animals, the hippo has been a criminally under utilized antagonist in the cinematic genre of feral nature gone wrong. Here’s where James Nunn’s Hungry enters the chat. When holiday makers go on a day trip to the bayou in Louisiana to see some crocodiles, what they don’t expect is to b

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 22 min read


[Review]: The Troll
Killa B (Brianna Lee) and her Troll The rapid development and ever changing landscape of social media has truly birthed some monsters, ranging from horrifically entitled social media influencers, to online faceless bullies who are relentless in attempting to tear down anyone in the public eye. These online terrors have provided the horror genre with plenty of subject fodder, producing movies such as Influencer (2022) and its sequel Influencers (2025), Sissy (2022), and Unfrie

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 292 min read


[Review]: Our Effed Up World
Finn, Poppy and Hank One of the most prolific indie horror filmmakers, Alice Maio Mackay, is back, with Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow, Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma) in the producer chair, with Our Effed Up World. Having had its world premiere at this year’s Frameline Film Festival, Our Effed Up World is an emotive sci-fi depicting an intergalactic battle against an entity which is intent on eating earth and its resources. Sheri (Sara Thompson) is a young woman, r

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 232 min read


[Review]: The Voices of Our Mother
Family can be pure hell, and no one knows this better than the estranged children of Harriet Scaflan, who have been brought together by the death of their grandmother in Mark O’Brien’s demonic horror The Voices of Our Mother. Starring Sheila McCarthy, Georgina Reilly, and the writer and director himself, The Voices of Our Mother seeks to explore familial trauma through the lens of a family curse of biblical proportions. When family matriarch Johanna (Anna Ferguson) falls ill

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 152 min read

