The International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, held in conjunction with the Phoenix Film Festival, will once again deliver a thrilling lineup of bold, unforgettable genre storytelling. This year’s program features a dynamic mix of action, suspense, psychological terror, social satire, and body horror from exciting filmmakers around the world. Among the standout selections this year are:  THE FURIOUS  (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate Premiere Releasing)  Screening: Thursday, A

The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival has announced the Focus Features' TIFF and SXSW hit OBSESSION to kick off its opening night on Friday, April 10th. Already being called “the most disturbing indie film of the year”, OBSESSION arrives with serious buzz, and a warning...be careful who you wish for. The unsettling new feature film from director Curry Barker , stars Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter. In OBSESSION,

There’s a moment early in Project Hail Mary  where Ryan Gosling’s Ryland Grace, bearded, disoriented, and floating somewhere far beyond the comforting pull of Earth, scrawls a question across a dry-erase board: Who am I?  It’s the kind of on-the-nose thematic gesture that would sink a lesser film, the sort of thing that feels reverse-engineered for a trailer. But Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s long-awaited return to live-action filmmaking doesn’t just get away with it, it build

To revisit the final image of Ready or Not , Samara Weaving, blood-soaked, dazed, and smoking in the wreckage of a burning mansion, is to be reminded of how rare it is for a horror-comedy to land on something that feels instantly iconic. It’s a closing note that doesn’t ask for expansion. It lingers. It resonates. It ends. Ready or Not2: Here I Come  makes the fatal mistake of picking that image back up and asking, “But what if… more?” And more is exactly what this sequel is,

The Phoenix Film Festival returns for its 26th annual event Thursday, April 9 – Sunday, April 19   at   Harkins Scottsdale 101, bringing filmmakers and movie lovers together for another year of standout storytelling, special events, and community celebration.   Originally founded in 2001 by local filmmakers, the Phoenix Film Festival has grown into an 11-day celebration featuring 250+ films ,  plus filmmaking seminars, parties, and student workshops for more than 20,000 atten

Undertone , the microbudget Canadian chiller that rode Fantasia buzz all the way to an A24 release and a Sundance Midnight berth, wants to do for podcasts what Paranormal Activity  did for found footage. It plants its camera in a single house, hands its protagonist a laptop and a pair of headphones, and asks a simple question: what if the scariest thing in the room is something you can only hear? Evy (Nina Kiri) is the skeptic half of an occult-themed podcast she co-hosts wit