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Preview: Soho Horror Film Festival 2022

October 11, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

Running from November 11-13 in Brixton, London (in-person) and November 17-20 (virtual), Soho Horror Film Festival returns for its largest, most diverse and transgressive lineup to date.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, Queer, Soho Horror Film Festival Tagged With: film festival, Queer Horror, soho fest 2022, soho horror film festival

Sophie Thatcher’s ‘Blink’ Is A Lean, Fun Horror Short [SXSW Review]

March 14, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

A close-up of a scared blonde girl's face in a hospital bed

Blink is notable for a few reasons. The first is that the short is the first project from Scream Gems Horror Lab, which is described as “an initiative from Sony’s genre label Screen Gems and Scott Glassgold’s production company Ground Control” that aims to be an “incubator” for up-and-coming filmmakers to move from shorts to features.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, SXSW Tagged With: Scream Gems Horror Lab, short films, Sophie Thatcher, Spenser Cohen

‘Jethica’ Is A Low-Fi Supernatural Stalker Drama [SXSW Review]

March 13, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

Two women stands in front of a rock wall

Stalking intersects with the supernatural in indie drama Jethica.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, SXSW Tagged With: Ashley Denise Robinson, Callie Hernandez, Pete Ohs, stalking, Will Madden

Satirical ‘Sissy’ Explores the Dark Side of Social Media [SXSW Review]

March 13, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

A girl with curly pink hair cries looking at her phone

A successful self-help influencer finds herself unravelling when a childhood trauma comes back to haunt her in the thriller Sissy…

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, SXSW Tagged With: Aisha Dee, Australia, Daniel Monks, Emily De Margheriti, Hannah Barlow, Kane Senes, Lucy Barrett, thriller, Yerin Ha

‘Slayed’ LGBTQ+ Horror Shorts [Brooklyn Horror Review]

October 22, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

A man wearing a bear head stands in shadow

One of the annual short programs I look forward to is the Slayed block out of Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, which is composed of LGBTQ+ Horror Shorts. Here is a selection of my favourites…

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Filed Under: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Tagged With: Alice Trueman, brooklyn horror film festival, D.W. Hodges, Jono Mitchell, Matthew Lynn, queer shorts, slayed

‘When I Consume You’ Is A Bleak Character Study of Mental Health [Brooklyn Horror Review]

October 19, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

A woman stands behind a man wearing a baseball cap with his head down, illuminated from behind

There’s a push and pull interplay at work in When I Consume You, the latest film written and directed by Perry Blackshear. 

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Filed Under: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: Evan Dumouche, Libby Ewing, MacLeod Andrews, Perry Blackshear

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

Words:
> Bloody Disgusting
> /Film
> Consequence
> The Spool
> Anatomy of a Scream
> Grim Journal
> That Shelf

Podcasts:
> Horror Queers
> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Recent Posts

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