If you’re a film critic or reviewer who likes #AbsurdistComedy & #Satire, please take a look at the trailer of my #DebutFeatureFilm and let me know if you’d like to review the full 100min film. Would love to give you a private screener! We’re doing festival submissions 😊 youtu.be/g5gFzCFYveQ?...

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"a funnier, freakier, altogether more fantastic love letter to the video age": Steven Kostanski’s swords-n-sorcery spectacular DEATHSTALKER (2025) is a hilarious, head-lopping lesson in the art of the remake. Screens 11pm tonight at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/09/21/d...

Doll’s house in the woods: Rod Blackhurst’s traumatic horror DOLLY (2025) is "an adult fairytale of masks, madness and the maternal urge". Screens 11pm tonight at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/09/22/d...

The curse of patriarchy: Annapurna Sriram’s trashily punkish feature debut FUCKTOYS (2025) "finds little room for romance in its allegory of class, capital and the sexes". Screens 9.30pm tonight at Calgary International Film Festival - CIFF projectedfigures.com/2025/03/10/f...

"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) screens 9.15pm tonight at Calgary International Film Festival - CIFF projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

Shark out of water: in @robbiebanfitch.bsky.social's "low-budget found footage freakout" THE OUTWATERS (2022), four friends go on a trip into the desert, and lose themselves forever. Screens 9pm tonight on NYX TV UK projectedfigures.com/2023/02/08/t...

Ben Wheatley double!: both KILL LIST (2011) projectedfigures.com/2013/05/16/k... and his latest BULK (2025) www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... are screening from 8pm today at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social l

Fish story: Alberto Sciamma’s beautiful, transgressive magical realist quest movie CIELO (2025) "sends a little girl across Bolivia in search of heavenly sky and lost mother(land)". Screens 6pm today at Calgary International Film Festival - CIFF projectedfigures.com/2025/06/06/c...

"reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding": DEAD LOVER (2024), Grace Glowicki’s camply mannered comic take on the Frankenstein myth, screens 4.45pm today at Calgary International Film Festival - CIFF projectedfigures.com/2025/02/02/d...

"a mother and her adult son haunted by the insistent return of bad memories": Mattias J Skoglund’s dementia horror HOME (HEMMET, 2025) screens 4.15pm today at Calgary International Film Festival - CIFF projectedfigures.com/2025/03/11/t...

'List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep' I would simply not talk for three hours. People talk way too much. Three hours, are you joking? How about shutting the hell up for three hours...

"follows a teen girl's first steps into a transhumanist menagerie of young adulthood": Miguel Llansó's hallucinatory huff/sci-fi singularity INFINITE SUMMER (2024) is exclusively on @indiepix.bsky.social Unlimited from today projectedfigures.com/2024/07/28/i...

"a sound-sensitive shut-in succumbs solipsistically to mental as much as otological illness": Johannes Grenzfurthner's psycho-acoustic found footage MASKING THRESHOLD (2021) is on ArrowPlayer (UK/US/Can/Ire) from today projectedfigures.com/2022/11/13/m...

"a sound-sensitive shut-in succumbs solipsistically to mental as much as otological illness": Johannes Grenzfurthner's psycho-acoustic found footage MASKING THRESHOLD (2021) is on @arrowplayer.bsky.social (UK/US/Can/Ire) from today projectedfigures.com/2022/11/13/m...

Feminist Frankenstein: AMERICAN MARY (2012) sees Jen & Sylvia Soska "taking a knife to the corpus of American myths and perversely modifying the severed parts into a wholly new kind of cinematic creature". On @arrowplayer.bsky.social US from today projectedfigures.com/2015/03/02/a...

Brit Card continuing the trend of anything with "Brit" or "British" ahead of it being utter dogshit for cunts

Here is a link to the podcast from Virginie Selavy, @annodracula.bsky.social and me rounding up this year's @frightfest.bsky.social for @resonancefm.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl...

"a funnier, freakier, altogether more fantastic love letter to the video age": Steven Kostanski’s swords-n-sorcery spectacular DEATHSTALKER (2025) is a hilarious, head-lopping lesson in the art of the remake. Screens 9.30pm tonight at Calgary IFF projectedfigures.com/2025/09/21/d...

what if the Rapture actually did happen, but literally no human on Earth qualified?

"finds something Lovecraftian leeching off the reality ritualised by an elusive serial killer": Stuart Ortiz's (un)true-crime mystery STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE (2024) screens 11pm tonight at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/09/23/s...

"in this exploitative microscosm of America, both capitalism and patriarchy are the real curse": Annapurna Sriram's gonzo allegory FUCKTOYS (2025) is Anora's punkier, self-consciously trashier sister. Screens 8.30pm tonight at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/10/f...

"faith tested, forgiveness abandoned, revenge misdirected – and the business of exploitation images exposed": Simon Rumley's dispiriting drama CRUSHED (2025) re-screens 4.45pm today at Fantastic Fest. Highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2025/08/17/c...

Doll’s house in the woods: @rodblackhurst.bsky.social's traumatic horror DOLLY (2025) is "an adult fairytale of masks, madness and the maternal urge". Re-screens 2.20pm today at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/22/d...

“a rambunctious ensemble clusterfuck messing online with its characters’ identity and reality”: Chris Marrs Piliero’s deepfake debut feature APPOFENIACS (2025) re-screens 2pm today at Fantastic Fest. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/appo...

"tale of seats, psychosis and serial killing shows the mad, emptily obsessive perfectionism of any artistry": Kenichi Ugana’s funny, freaky, fucked-up INCOMPLETE CHAIRS (2025) had its world première last night at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/09/24/i...

"follows a dreamy, dissociative journey through the cycles of trauma and recovery": @avalonfast.bsky.social’s witch-inflected woman’s picture CAMP (2025) re-screens 11.20pm tonight at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/24/c...

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So who was raptured?

"more than one family facing the gradual destruction of their environment must adapt to survive": Colin Minihan's canine creature feature COYOTES (2025) re-screens 11.20pm tonight at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/20/c...

Paradise lost: Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s erotic thriller BONE LAKE “sees a fracturing couple forced to share shoreline vacation space with seductive, predatory strangers”. Screens 11pm tonight at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social, review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bone...

"traces an alienated adolescent woman’s embrace of her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy": Julia Kowalski’s witchy Franco-Polish fable HER WILL BE DONE (2025) screens 6pm today at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social . Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/14/h...

"uses its own exuberant anarchy to subvert superhero forms and to kick against the pricks": @racheltalalay.com’s compromised comic-book adaptation TANK GIRL (1995) screens 6pm today at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/11/25/i...

"here genre is polished like a perfect, glistening diamond, and distilled to a chaotic, quixotic dream of desire and death": Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's superlative superspy superspectacle REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (2025) rescreens 2.20pm at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/03/20/r...

"a funnier, freakier, altogether more fantastic love letter to the video age": Steven Kostanski’s swords-n-sorcery spectacular DEATHSTALKER (2025) is a hilarious, head-lopping lesson in the art of the remake. Re-screens 2.10pm today at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/21/d...

"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) re-screens 11.30am today at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

"an adult incel loser still living with his grandmother and failing equally at sex and suicide": Ian Tripp’s low-budget, lo-fi cringe-comedy freakout SINCERELY SAUL (2025) is on US VOD from 29 September via Children of Celluloid projectedfigures.com/2025/09/24/s...

"stages a modern metatheatrical myth of Mephistopheles, menstruation and #MeToo": Katherine Dudas’ camp horror comedy THEATER IS DEAD (2025) just had its world première at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/23/t...

as if we did not know he was a shyster, he is now openly a quack

I’m a committed atheist, but if the Rapture were real, I suspect that a lot of self-identifying Christians would be hilariously surprised to discover that they have been Left Behind

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

"finds missing persons, maternal anxieties and madness between its multi-mediated textures": Chris Stuckmann’s occult horror SHELBY OAKS (2024) re-screens 11.30pm tonight at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/09/s...

"traces an alienated adolescent woman’s embrace of her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy": Julia Kowalski’s witchy Franco-Polish fable HER WILL BE DONE (Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite, 2025) re-screens 8.45pm tonight at Fantastic Fest. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/14/h...

"pushes the boundaries of genre, playing out its paranormal parameters like a game of multi-dimensional chess": Paul McGuigan’s ensemble action sci-fi PUSH (2009) screen 9pm tonight on Legend Channel projectedfigures.com/2016/06/02/p...

"an Oedipal psychodrama in a weird hermetic world": Jim Hosking’s hilarious, childishly repellent feature debut THE GREASY STRANGLER (2016) screens 9pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2016/10/07/g...

"a modern (yet ancient) fairytale of myth and metamorphosis": Eugène Green’s Portuguese parable THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (A Árvore do Conhecimento, 2025) re-screens 6pm tonight at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/19/t...

"reimagines the collaboration between Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder as Beckettian banality": Jim Hosking's batshit biopioc EBONY AND IVORY (2024) screens 6.30pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London projectedfigures.com/2024/09/21/e...

"a young man enters the deluded fantasy world of an arrested older barber": Kyle Misak’s crazy coming-of-age comedy BAD HAIRCUT (2025) re-screens 11.40am today at Fantastic Fest projectedfigures.com/2025/09/19/b...

weird little uncategorisable films are my rapture

World-(b)ender: Joe Begos’ apartment-set bad trip JIMMY AND STIGGS (2025) "brings the boys back together to drink, smoke and snort their way through a heady alien invasion". Screens 11pm tonight at @slashfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/08/23/j...