Shudder has announced that it will ring in spooky season with V/H/S/Halloween, the eighth instalment in the long-running found footage anthology horror franchise. Featuring six Halloween-themed tales of terror – Diet Phantasma from director Bryan M. Ferguson, Fun Size from Casper Kelly, Home Haunt from Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman, Kidprint from Alex Ross Perry, […]
Netflix’s Spanish horror Sister Death shares first trailer and poster
Netflix has released the first trailer for Sister Death, the upcoming prequel to director Paco Plaza’s 2017 Spanish horror Veronica, ahead of its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival on October 5th. Set in post-war Spain, the film centres on a young novice nun (Aria Bedmar) with supernatural gifts as she becomes plagued by […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 26 – [REC] 2 (2008)
[REC] 2, 2008. Directed by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. Starring Manuela Velasco, Jonathan Mellor, Oscar Sanchez Zafra, Ariel Casas and Javier Botet. SYNOPSIS: A SWAT team is sent into a quarantined Barcelona apartment complex where a TV reporter and a fire crew have become trapped due to an outbreak of deadly infection. Their mission […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 12 – [REC] (2007)
[REC], 2007. Directed by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. Starring Manuela Velasco, Pablo Rosso, Ferran Terraza, David Vert, and Javier Botet. SYNOPSIS: TV presenter Angela Vidal is accompanying a crew of a Barcelona Fire station as part of a television documentary. When the crew is called to what appears to be a routine rescue in […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Veronica (2017)
Veronica, 2017. Directed by Paco Plaza. Starring Sandra Escacena, Bruna Gonzalez, and Claudia Pacer. SYNOPSIS: Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates. In 2007 Spanish director Paco Plaza obliterated audiences’ nerves with found-footage zombie horror REC. Co-directed by Jaume Balaguero the movie […]
