30 March 2020
Need a boost from the Lockdown Intimate Living Syndrome? Take your pick from this mixed species cocktail of horror comedies, bringing together serial-killer sheep, zombie beavers, normal zombies, graceful werewolves, Google-loving vampires and humans.
29 March 2020
Five films, fantastic or borderline, which prove you’re not so bad after all at handling lock-down living.
24 March 2020
Given the confinement under which we are living today, our post-apocalyptic retrospective has acquired a new sheen of irony. Click here for Jean Alessandrini’s prophetic text, the list of the retrospective films as well as our “post-apo night of truly bad films”, trailers and all.
27 March 2020
While confined to our homes with plenty of time on our hands, make it go by faster with the indie videogame, Gone Home. Developed by the Fullbright studios, Gone Home will take you on a 1990s nostalgia trip.
14 March 2023
The Sofilm residencies for genre cinema are calling for short-film projects, which will once again be presented at the 16th edition of our Festival, to be held this coming September.
12 February 2020
For the second Freak-Out Friday evening of the season, the Festival honours Lucio Fulci, a craftsman of exploitation cinema who has dipped into all genres of popular Italian cinema with two gialli, both atypical, but greatly appreciated by fans of the genre.
14 January 2020
Ash takes his girlfriend Linda on a romantic trip to an isolated cabin in the woods. They find a very old book and audio tape recorded by a Professor Knowby, a distinguished archaeologist. The book turns out to be The Book of the Dead, a famous grimoire or book of spells that was lost in the 14th century. The recovery of the book and the recorded incantations liberate evil forces in the forest.
7 October 2019
Peter Strickland’s In Fabric has won the Golden Méliès, which was awarded on Sunday 6 October at the 52nd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
28 October 2019
Celebrate Hallowe’en (All Hallows Eve), an ancient Celtic, then Roman, then Catholic tradition today confiscated by everyone who wants to have freaky fun.
18 October 2021
The winners of the Méliès d’or 2021 are the feature film Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond and the short film Last Dance by Danny Gibbons and Alex Scott. The Career Méliès of this year goes to French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
