I watched Split Rock as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where it had its North American premiere on October 21, 2026. Written and directed by Ryan Glover, Split Rock is his second feature after The Strings, which was released in 2020 (and is available on Shudder). Split Rock is about a group of geologists […]
Culture Shock: Black Horror Shorts was a program of excellent horror shorts by Black filmmakers that screened on October 20, 2026, at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. It was followed by a fabulous Q&A with creatives involved in all but one of the six films. Here are some highlights! Grampa (2026) The six films were […]
I watched Erie as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where it had its East Coast premiere on October 20, 2026. Directed by Alison-Eve Hammersley and co-written by Hammersley and J. Batzli, Erie is a found-footage horror film that does something new with a genre that’s been going strong for over twenty-five years. We’re reminded […]
I watched Sender as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where it had its New York City premiere on October 19, 2026. Director Russell Goldman was present for a Q&A after the film. Sender is a film that’s all about the actors, although that doesn’t seem entirely fair to all those who worked on the […]
I watched The Cycle as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where it had its east coast premiere on October 16, 2026. Directed by Jordan Downey, and written by Downey and Kevin Stewart, The Cycle (2026) is a distinctive blend of forensic crime / police procedural and supernatural horror. (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, […]
Jered Mabaquiao Anyone who has been swept away in a current of intellectual pursuit can identify with Chronovisor’s appeal. At least for me, I intimately recognize the kind of frightening intellectual work and mindful interiority that Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s Chronovisor illustrates. Chronovisor begins with the professional, and oftentimes rare, virtue of attention—with the […]
Jenna LaBollita Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s What Feeds Below is thrilling, imaginative, and absolutely disgusting. I mean that last part as a compliment. Its horror is gory, detailed, and deeply uncomfortable, yet despite the strangeness of its premise and the extremity of some of its imagery, the novel never feels inaccessible. Schlote-Bonne gives readers a narrator whose […]
Luna Gray Kevin Johnson’s debut imagines a world where Santa is real, almost everyone agrees he’s good, and the cost of all that joy gets paid by somebody else. Most Christmas horror starts by taking something comforting and corrupting it. Kevin Johnson’s ‘Twas the Night, out October 13 from William Morrow, does something stranger. He […]
Ithaqua has been a long-term passion project for its Canadian director and writer, Casey Walker. In interviews, he has described his struggle to see his conception to the screen, including securing the funding – something that finally came from John Gore, who (as of 2023) has acquired Hammer Films. In the meantime, Walker has directed […]