Horror

Our final film writeup from Screamdance at Raindance 2019 reports from the UK premiere of Steve Krikris’ THE WAITER (2018), a moody character study in the mid-century microcosm of a mythical Athens. Krikris won Best Director Award at this year’s festival. Here’s what he said in the Q&A.

Our penultimate film report from the Screamdance strand at Raindance 2019 looks at Jelle Stroo’s LA DEUXIÈME (2019), a lean Belgian/French chiller about the birth of a prophet. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.

Our latest Screamdance report from Raindance 2019 at Vue Piccadilly looks at debut feature director Jarett Bellucci’s SANDPAPER, a home improvement thriller based on a remarkable true story. Here’s our writeup.

Our next film report from the Screamdance strand at Raindance 2019 is Borys Lankosz’s seriously twisted fairy tale DARK, ALMOST NIGHT. Based on Joanna Bator’s novel, this full-fat literary adaptation also screened In Competition. Here’s our writeup.

We continue our report from Screamdance, the new horror strand at Raindance 2019, with the World Premiere of Marcos Prado’s Brazilian thriller, MACABRE. This screening got us all wired up as part of an experiment in audience fear analysis. Here’s what happened.

Our first Raindance day featured two familiar tropes of the modern horror genre – the zombie outbreak movie and the found footage scare show. Two South American offerings wrestled gamely with conventions. How did they get along? Part 1 – FERAL.