Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

‘Property’ Review – White-Knuckle Home Invasion Horror Locks Audiences in an Armored Car

Daniel Kurland BHFF, BHFF 23, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Daniel Bandeira, Movies, Property, Reviews

Horror is an endlessly broad genre that creates terror from diverse material. The genre’s depth can prompt audiences to question if gore and vicious murders are worse than systemic oppression and an impossibly-balanced class structure where the disenfranchised continually grow more helpless. It’s eerie how a blood-thirsty monster and societal strife can be equally destructive […]

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Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Unveils Massive 2023 Lineup

Meagan Navarro Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Doors, Maniac Cop, Movies

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival announced an impressive full slate of programming for its 2023 edition, running October 12-19 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park locations. From the press release: Audiences are in for an unearthly lineup of films and events, including the inaugural Leviathan Award, which will be presented to NYC horror legend William Lustig at a special 35th anniversary […]

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‘Repulse’ Review – An Unflinching Tale of Revenge from the Czech Republic

Daniel Kurland BHFF 22, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Emil Krizka, Movies, Repulse, Reviews

Czech Republic’s ‘Repulse’ sinks the audience into an extended exercise in trauma that turns to brevity and non-linear storytelling to amplify its pain. “You can do whatever you want.” “What do I want?” Screams of anguish are the only forms of dialogue that are present in the first ten minutes of Repulse, Emil Krizka’s ode […]

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‘Christmas Bloody Christmas’ Review – The Blood-Soaked Robot Santa Movie You Didn’t Know You Needed

Daniel Kurland BHFF 22, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Christmas Bloody Christmas, christmas horror, Joe Begos, Killer Santa, Movies, Reviews, Riley Dandy

Joe Begos unleashes a new holiday horror classic with his gleefully gratuitous robot Santa rampage, Christmas Bloody Christmas. Horror is most commonly associated with Halloween, but Christmas is right behind the spooky season when it comes to holiday-based horror movies. Christmas horror movies take plenty of different directions from creative home invasions to Satanic elves. […]

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‘Sick of Myself’ Review – Egotistical Body Horror That’s More Than Skin-Deep! [BHFF 22]

Daniel Kurland BHFF 22, body horror, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Eirik Sæther, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Kristoffer Borgli, Movies, Reviews, Sick of Myself

Sick of Myself presents a modern body horror story that’s rooted in limitless narcissism that’s as disturbing as it is hilarious. “I love to live.” The body horror sub-genre has become increasingly popular, especially since greater breakthroughs in prosthetics and practical effects now allow for unprecedented spectacles. It’s easier than ever to gross out an […]

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‘Nocebo’ Review – An Unconventional Revenge Story Where Mysticism Battles Capitalism

Daniel Kurland BHFF, BHFF 22, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Eva Green, Garret Shanley, Lorcan Finnegan, Movies, Nocebo, Reviews

Lorcan Finnegan’s ‘Nocebo’ subverts the wicked nanny subgenre with a haunting horror story with a ruthless, relevant message. “I am here with you.” There are few bonds that are more innate and eternal than those between family. These fundamental connections can push the most ordinary of individuals to do impossible things. Parenthood–whether it’s the stresses […]

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