John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush and Kristine Froseth won top acting awards at Spain’s prominent Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, which wrapped its 57th edition on Oct. 13.
Making a sweep of the fest with three awards was Austrian Best International Feature Oscar entry “The Devil’s Bath” by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. Drawn from historical facts, the Austrian-German co-production is described by Variety critic Jessica Kiang as a “story so pitilessly bleak you may want to look away; the filmmaking craft is so compelling that you can’t.” The historical horror drama, which vied for the Berlinale Golden Bear in February, follows Agnes, a depressed newlywed, who instead of committing suicide, considered taboo by her Christian community, commits a crime that would lead to her execution. The “suicide by proxy” practice was said to be common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in German-speaking Central Europe and Scandinavia.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong...
Making a sweep of the fest with three awards was Austrian Best International Feature Oscar entry “The Devil’s Bath” by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. Drawn from historical facts, the Austrian-German co-production is described by Variety critic Jessica Kiang as a “story so pitilessly bleak you may want to look away; the filmmaking craft is so compelling that you can’t.” The historical horror drama, which vied for the Berlinale Golden Bear in February, follows Agnes, a depressed newlywed, who instead of committing suicide, considered taboo by her Christian community, commits a crime that would lead to her execution. The “suicide by proxy” practice was said to be common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in German-speaking Central Europe and Scandinavia.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong...
- 10/13/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Tell Me A Creepy Story? The thing every horror fan wants to hear, and now they can in this terror-filled horror anthology from ones-to-watch directors Stuart Graham (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), Félix Dobaire (Myosotis), Samuel Dawe, Paul Holbrook and Luke Konopasky on UK digital now, courtesy of Reel 2 Reel Films.
Conjuring genuine unease – this is a uniquely unsettling collection of terrifying horror stories… From the beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite, to the detective struggling with several missing children cases, these stories make for chilling bed times creepies.
For distinctly eerier horror thrills, get ready to Tell Me A Creepy Story.
The post Reel 2 Reel Films releases Tell Me A Creepy Story on UK digital appeared first on Horror Asylum.
Conjuring genuine unease – this is a uniquely unsettling collection of terrifying horror stories… From the beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite, to the detective struggling with several missing children cases, these stories make for chilling bed times creepies.
For distinctly eerier horror thrills, get ready to Tell Me A Creepy Story.
The post Reel 2 Reel Films releases Tell Me A Creepy Story on UK digital appeared first on Horror Asylum.
- 6/15/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
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