Just as tension over immigration reaches a boiling point in our country, Two Sentence Horror Stories‘ writer-director Vera Miao‘s sobering feature debut arrives to trace a grim but familiar line between America’s violent past and present. Rock Springs explores over a century’s worth of racial trauma through a Chinese-American family, though the historical horror here […]
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As if to prove that body horror is in fashion, Sundance 2026’s Midnight lineup features not one but two films that find new ways for the human body to repulse. Whereas Saccharine lambasted diet culture with a personal touch, New Zealand horror comedy Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant instead wields an extraterrestrial pregnancy for body horror […]
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Filmmaker Casper Kelly (V/H/S/Halloween, Adult Swim Yule Log) drops viewers straight into the world of a kids’ show with Buddy, a high-concept horror comedy that dials up the absurdities of kids’ television programming to a lethal degree. Those on board with an experimental structure, tonal shifts, and Kelly’s darkly playful sense of humor will find […]
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The Old Testament’s Book of Leviticus has a lot to say about sin and uncleanliness, as well as ritual purity and atonement. The priests within the book, itself a moral metaphor, were frequently corrupt and evil. It’s the perfect title for writer-director Adrian Chiarella‘s powerful feature debut, a searing anthem against the corrosive nature of […]
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Relic filmmaker Natalie Erica James is back with another haunting horror metaphor rooted in the personal. Saccharine gives a supernatural twist to the current body horror trend, taking aim at disordered eating and the diet culture that exploits it. Like Relic, James’ latest operates on a sustained sense of dread that goes far, even when […]
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The filmmaker behind twisted sitcom parody “Too Many Cooks” is back with another dark voyage into the absurd underbelly of familiar television fare: Buddy. Writer/Director Casper Kelly takes aim at kids’ shows, blending Barney with Pee-Wee, with a dash of Howdy Doody and Dora the Explorer, in a horror-comedy with a cuddly but murderous mascot. […]
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The 2026 edition of the Sundance Film Festival begins tomorrow, bringing a new slate of buzzy premieres that’ll shape the year to come. It’s also the end of an era; this year will be the festival’s final year in Park City, Utah, before moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027. That means it’s not just emerging filmmakers […]
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