Screen Anarchy

On January 23, 2025, the center of our genre-film loving world moved to Park City, Utah, US, where the Sundance Film Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films. Our own Mel Valentin and Martin Tsai attended the festival...

Movies start with the written word. Without a filmaker or screenwriter putting their ideas down on paper or screen there is no foundation for a vision. Countless times a year literary works are being optioned or adapted to film, their...

After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most nihilistic short stories in The Monkey. Revamping the story from a morose, chaotic, paranoid...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has a healthy relationship with Asian genre cinema. In the past it was basically the go-to place for fans to check it out, and the (in)famous "Rotterdämmerung" part of the festival provided anime, horror and...

Quartet of stories unfolding during a summer on Lake Michigan makes for an underachieving drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

After two decades directing shorts, commercials, and music videos, writer-director Isaiah Saxon makes his official feature-length debut with The Legend of Ochi, a richly imagined, Amblin-influenced family-oriented fantasy-adventure set in a semi-contemporary mythical Eastern Europe.   Bolstered by  environmental themes,...

Love is in the air in Heart Eyes, the new Valentine's Day slasher from director Josh Ruben. Unfortunately for the cute couples of the world, this also means that a serial killer with a thing for young lovers is on...

Nurtured by Pastel, Barry Jenkins’ production company, Eva Victor (Billions) wrote, directed, and stars in Sorry, Baby, one of the most remarkable, quite possibly extraordinary feature-film debuts in recent festival history.   To turn her screenplay into reality, Victor spent...

Now, now. That headline is just a little joke. Anything else that is up against the streaming debut of horror giant Terrifiier 3 already knew they had an uphill battle for our attention.    Just in case the extreme horror and...

Somewhere in the bowels of an upstate New York shopping mall circa 1997, the undercover cop, Lucas (Tom Blyth), in writer-director Carmen Emmi’s fascinatingly tense, engrossing character study, Plainclothes, sits quietly at a first-floor dining area, his eyes perpetually scanning...