A teenage girl becomes a karate-fighting vigilante and learns a secret about her mother’s past in Out of the Shadow. Chu Po (Larine Tang) is a teenager tired of being held down by her overprotective mother Ying (Kay Tse). As such, Po secretly begins receiving karate lessons from Madam Mo (Natalie Tong), using her skills…
Two police officers are called in to investigate an increasingly complicated murder investigation in Dead Dead Full Dead. While on duty one night in Mumbi, detectives Balram (Yug Italiya) and Zubi (Monica Chaudhary) are called in to investigate a complaint by Basanti Bachhan (Flora Jacob), who witnessed her neighbour Rahul (Ashwin Mushran) kill his social…
The teenage assassins are back for a third mission in Baby Assassins: Nice Days. Mahiro Fukagawa (Saori Izawa) and Chisato Sugimoto (Akari Takaishi) are on a working vacation in Miyazaki, with the plan being to celebrate Mahiro’s 20th birthday after killing their latest target. However, Mahiro and Chisato are beaten to the punch by highly…
This Review was Originally Published as Part of TIFF Next Wave 2024 A 17-year-old girl discovers something sinister at a resort in the German Alps in Cuckoo. 17-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) is forced to move with her father Luis (Marton Csokas), stepmother Beth (Jessica Henwick), and half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu) to the Resort Alpschatten in…
Three brothers fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic world in Párvulos. Salvador (Farid Escalante Correa), Oliver (Leonardo Cervantes), and Benjamin (Mateo Ortega Casillas) are three brothers living in an isolated house in the wilderness. A viral outbreak has resulted in much of the population turning into violent zombies and the three brothers have to fight…
A group of friends opening a restaurant in New Orleans unearth an ancient pendulum board in Witchboard. Emily (Madison Iseman) and her fiance Christian (Aaron Dominguez) are preparing to open a new Creole restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. While picking mushrooms for the restaurant, Emily finds an old board, which she learns…
A young woman learns a ghastly secret about the man she begins dating in The Dead Thing. Alex (Blu Hunt) is a young woman stuck in a dead-end job and an endless cycle of meaningless online dating connections. That all changes when she meets Kyle (Ben Smith-Petersen), whom Alex instantly develops chemistry with. However, when…
Three friends have a transhumanist experience while on summer vacation in Infinite Summer. Mia (Teele Kaljuvee-O’Brock) is a young Estonian woman, who goes on summer vacation with her childhood friend Grete (Johanna-Aurelia Rosin), who has returned home after studying in London, bringing along her Canadian friend Sarah (Hannah Gross). While using an “Extreme Dating” app,…
A series of deaths are tied to those who dream of an unusual man in This Man. A series of gruesome deaths have been piling up, with the connection between them visiting psychiatrists with reports that they dreamt of a strange man with a unibrow. This affliction soon affects Hana (Arisa Deguchi) and her husband…
Two police officers tackle a grisly serial killer case tied to a local legend in The Soul Eater. Captain Franck De Roland (Paul Hamy) and Commander Elizabeth Guardanio (Virginie Ledoyen) both arrive in the village of Roquenoir on different cases. Franck is on the search for answers about missing children and Elizabeth has arrived to…
