From The Editors

BLIND COP 2 Exclusive: Chroma Picks up North American Rights to Indie Action-Comedy

When an influx of illegal weapons trafficking explodes onto the scene, a grieving blind police officer must purge the city streets or risk mass chaos breaking loose.

Opening This Week: PSYCHO KILLER vs. HOW TO MAKE A KILLING

Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful,' 'One Mile' (both chapters), 'Kokuho.'

ABRACADAVAR: Mexican Heist Comedy to Start International Rollout This Spring

Our friends at FilmSharks have been locking down sales at EFM all week and have announced more sales for the Mexican heist comedy, Abracadavar.    Three magician siblings from the circus world find themselves brought back together to perform a...

GHOST TRAIN Review: South Korean Horror Trods Overly Familiar Supernatural Ground

The translated title of Tak Se-woong’s (Devil in the Lake, A Stranger Dream) latest film, Ghost Train (괴기열차), is something of a misnomer.   While Tak’s supernatural horror film certainly involves ghosts (a handful, maybe more) and trains (many state-of-the-art...

TORMENT (TORMENTO): Mexican Horror Flick Sells at EFM

Proven to be a concept that has some staying power, more international rights have been secured for Torment (Tormento) the Mexican remake of the Urguayan horror flick, Morgue.    Leaving her job at a shopping mall, an exhausted security guard...

UNDER YOUR FEET Trailer: Sales Mount up For Spanish Language Chiller

We have the first trailer and more stills from Cristian Bernard's Spanish-language chiller, Under Your Feet.    Isabel moves with her two children into a prestigious building that has a peculiar admission method, but at an affordable rental fee. Once...

Sundance 2026 Wrap: We Came, We Saw, We Reviewed

Updated as of February 16, 2026. As our own Ryland Aldrich noted in his wonderful essay, Ryland's Musings From Two Decades of Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its final edition in Park City, Utah, with a bang -- and...

HOUSE OF HOLLOWAY: Alex Kahuam Wraps Latest Horror Pic, Starring Laura Marano & Doug Jones

Before the weekend, Variety had the scoop that our friend Alex Kahuam wrapped production on their new horror flick, House of Holloway.    A family of serial killers play a twisted psychological game, competing with each other to claim the next...

Sundance 2026 Review: ROCK SPRINGS Excavates a Forgotten American Atrocity

Vera Miao's horror debut stars Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, Jimmy O. Yang, Aria Kim, and Fiona Fu in a story that links a grieving Asian American family to the 1885 massacre.

Rotterdam 2026 Interview: Guillaume Nicloux Talks About MI AMOR

The French writer, playwright, professor, actor and director Guillame Nicloux is no stranger to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In the past 30 years, he visited several times, and his films have often featured in the festival's program. This year...

San Francisco's Original Movie Palace, The Castro Theatre, Reopens With Harry Melling's PILLION

The second movie palace to bear the name, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco opened more than a century ago (1922).   Originally serving the working-class inhabitants of the area, the Art Deco-inspired Castro Theatre ran new and old theatrical...

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: Our First Look at Jane Schoenbrun's New Film

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

IZZI: ORPHAN's Isabelle Fuhrman And GotG's Michael Rooker to Star in Possession Thriller

Here is another one to place on your radar, an upcoming possession thriller called Izzi. Deadline is reporting that sales have launched at EFM for the flick that is set to star Isabelle Fuhrman, from the Orphan franchise, and Michael...

Now Playing: BY DESIGN, CRIME 101, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE

Also in theaters: 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Cold Storage,' 'The Mortuary Assistant.' Plus, on VOD: 'Broken Bird' and 'Sweetness.'

Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA

Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...

Available Light 2026 Review: CARIBOU COUNTRY (Wədzįh Nəne'), Exemplary Arthouse Activism

There are oh so many, singular, memorable images in Luke Gleeson’s Wədzįh Nəne’ (aka Caribou Country). The film is so beautiful, and meditative in its execution, that it is almost possible to forget that it is a call to action...

Rotterdam 2026 Review: TEKENCHU, THE RITE OF THE NAHUALES, Beware Of The Were-Birds

Mexico has a rich tradition of genre films, both serious and outrageous, and that shouldn't be a surprise because the country has an incredible selection of mythologies and histories to pull inspiration from. Back in 2020, the Mexican director Carlos...

WUTHERING HEIGHTS Review: Emerald Fennell Tackles Emily Brontë's Gothic Drama With Mixed Results

For filmmakers stuck in a creative lull or stall, there’s nothing better than taking a dip into the public domain, pulling out a work of fiction long past its copyright expiration, and adapting, revising, or reinterpreting it accordingly to match...

BY DESIGN Review: Beautiful and Heartbreakingly Singular

Juliette Lewis stars, supported by Mamoudou Athie, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, Alisa Torres, Clifton Collins Jr., Keir Gilchrist, with Udo Kier and Betty Buckley. Narrated by Melanie Griffith. Amanda Kramer directed.