Another Panic Fest winds down, bringing a hybrid model that offered in-person screenings and virtual premieres including early screenings of Evil Dead Rise and Sisu. The fest offered a slew of premieres, including nihilistic horrors like Beaten to Death and introspective docs like King on Screen. While the packed schedule ensured we couldn’t catch it […]
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Director Sam Curtain ensures that a title like Beaten to Death delivers on what it promises with unrelenting violence and nihilism. Curtain’s bleak feature, co-written with Benjamin Jung-Clarke, puts its central character and the audience, by extension, through a gauntlet of torture, insanity, and desperation designed for maximum discomfort. Beaten to Death more than succeeds in its aim, making for an intense […]
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Multi-hyphenate writer, director, and star Franklin Ritch introduces a science fiction chamber piece in The Artifice Girl, a heady thriller centered around advanced tech. The inciting mystery initially presents as a high-concept thriller but soon gives way to a deceptively complex and affecting sci-fi parable. It’s in the measured layering of complicated character work and ethical […]
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Director Daphné Baiwir examines not the literary work of prolific author Stephen King but the vast body of ongoing adaptations of King’s work, beginning with 1976’s Carrie, in the documentary King on Screen. With over 80 films and TV series and counting, adapting his work by over 50 directors, the horror author remains one of the most adapted in the […]
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One of the films celebrating its world premiere at Panic Fest 2023 this week is Black Mold, which will premiere Saturday, April 15th, at Panic Fest in Kansas City, MO. Check out a first-look sneak peek at director John Pata’s Black Mold via the clip below. In the film, “Photographers Brooke Konrad (Agnes Albright) and […]
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Universal Pictures’ new Dracula horror-comedy Renfield, starring Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult as Renfield and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as The Prince of Darkness, kicks off the 11th annual Panic Fest on Thursday, April 13, at Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, MO. Panic Fest expands its 2023 programming to feature over 100 films along with […]
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