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Oregon’s Portland Horror Film Festival is back to deliver shocks and shudders with its 11th annual edition, running June 3-7, 2026 at the Hollywood Theatre and Clinton Street Theater. With … Read More
Oregon’s Portland Horror Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, with both in-person theatrical and virtual versions. As a judge for the festival, I have seen several of the … Read More
Prolific director Izzy Lee knows her way around horror, and has found success in her works boasting absurdist humor, as well. Her latest short film Meat Friend combines both of … Read More
Absolutely chilling, unsettling, and macabre, writer/director Michael Kratochvil’s Australian short film I Call Upon Thee takes the concept of a children’s horror story and places it firmly in the world … Read More
Director Daniel Rands’ U.K. horror short Peaking relies heavily on sound design to get its eerie atmosphere across. It does so quite impressively, resulting in a 7-minute shocker fraught with … Read More
Old-school film stock and classic giallo techniques combine in writer/director Kevin Fermini’s horror short Death Walks on Nitrate. The result is a trippy, beautiful looking slice of cinema with an … Read More
Witches more interested in their social media accounts than their craft find themselves in diabolical danger in the horror short The Witches of Bushwick. Cowriters/codirectors Catherine Delaloye and Joe Pardavila … Read More
Italian short shocker Ferine is a grisly tale that borrows from nature, particularly from species that see the female kill her partner after the act of mating. It’s simply told, … Read More
A ronin who failed to protect his deceased shogun is on a quest to avenge that master’s death in director Kevin McTurk’s brilliant, beautiful stop-motion short The Haunted Swordsman. This … Read More
Andrew Bowser wrote, directed, and stars in the creepy, fun horror short Little Willy (2019), and he does an ace job with all three tasks. A modern spin on the … Read More
A pandemic can’t keep a good film festival down, as film aficionados have seen in recent weeks. Portland Horror Film Festival, the Pacific Northwest’s premiere horror genre film festival, is … Read More
My favorite style of horror film is that which deals with an eerie, unsettling atmosphere bordering on — or diving headlong into — the surreal, with the filmmakers never fully … Read More
Provocative, prolific horror filmmaker Izzy Lee imagines what might happen in the near future should a certain wall be built on the border between the United States and Mexico in … Read More
Seen as a sort of revisit to the celebrated television series Masters of Horror, the new scare-fare anthology Nightmare Cinema serves up five tales of terror from renowned directors Mick … Read More
A group of young hikers finds that the opportunity for sudden wealth leads them down dangerous paths in the horror outing Stay Out Stay Alive. Greed motivates some members of … Read More
The 29th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival took place October 4-6, 2024 at Portland, Oregon’s Hollywood Theatre, but if you didn’t attend, you have the opportunity to experience the … Read More
The 28th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival of Cosmic Horror is set to chill and thrill viewers with U.S. and regional premieres of Lovecraftian cinematic works aplenty. The fest … Read More
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival boasts more than 60 feature-length and short films inspired by the work of that very author for this year’s edition, which marks the 25th anniversary of … Read More
Nightmares Film Festival is one of the most highly regarded horror film fests in the United States, and here’s proof: It has been called one of the world’s best horror … Read More
This past weekend Walker Stalker convention drug it’s rotting carcass to Philadelphia, PA. For fans of AMC’s hit show The Walking Dead, Walker Stalker convention is the place to … Read More
Take two severed but still fully functional heads and put them in an icebox in the basement of a psychotic barber’s shop that they share with a dismembered hand, and … Read More
We at Indie Infestation like awesome things. So when the Joe was contacted by an up and coming director about his YouTube channel of Lovecraft-ian styled shorts he said “what … Read More
The bloodgates are open! Halloween season is now upon us, and new horrors are coming from all directions. In Gruesome’s ongoing survey, we check in with our favorite fright fiends—as … Read More
A studio that we don’t spend near enough time talking about is Troma Entertainment – they have been bringing their one of a kind, over the top, crude style of … Read More
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