Author name: Miss Rabia Sitabi-Stigter

I am a Pop Culture Expert & Trend Analyst, and a Horror specialist who focuses on Asian titles. During the year I am the marketing director of Imagine Fantastic Film Festival and Kaboom Animation Festival. In the rest of my time I write for The Cultured Curators, Ghouls Magazine, do talks at festivals and more, and co-host a podcast. I am a member of the UK & Irish Horror critics. If you want to read or listen to intersectional layers of cinema from a European-born Arab, African, Asian, Queer, Disabled lens, then you might like my words. But mostly I share lists, lotsa niche lists :P

THE MOUTHS

The Mouths (A Survey about Mouths) // Fantasia 2026 Review

The Mouths, or A Survey about Mouths, is a Japanese supernatural horror film (org. title: Kuchi Ni Kansuru Enquete) that had its North American premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival 2026. Personally, I was very excited to see a new title from Ju-On and The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu. He’s had his peak, of course,

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Colony // Fantasia 2026 Review

Ever since the movie announcement at Cannes, I’ve been curious what the return of Yeon Sango-Ho to the international market was going to be. After the internationally produced Peninsula (sequel to Train to Busan), he left us wanting for more Korean peninsula horror stories. So, I was excited to see Colony on the program for

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SEKIRO: No Defeat // Fantasia 2026 Review

If you’re a fan of the Souls series games, especially its sister game SEKIRO: Shadows Die Twice, and anime is your flavor for amazing adaptations (they do it so well), then SEKIRO: No Defeat is made for you, especially. As an avid anime fan, I was pleasantly surprised to see fairly new studio Qzil.la take

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Evil Dead Burn Review // A Family That Deadites Together, Burns Together

Twice is a coincidence, three times is intentional. And it seems now very intentional that Sam Raimi is working with a formula while ‘introducing’ the Evil Dead fans to new directors. With the third installment post-Ash Evil Dead universe, Evil Dead Burn, we can assume a clear pattern. 1. Open with a Deadite in place,

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Highly Anticipated Horror Literature Coming in 2027

We’re only halfway through 2026 and are already so well-fed when it comes to fantastic literature. From T. Kingfisher’s Wolf Worm, to Asian Gothic The Girl with a Thousand Faces, to physiological horror-meets-haunting You Did Nothing Wrong, to technological horror, Molka. It is a great time for diverse voices from around the world in horror literary fiction, and 2027 promises body horror,

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Rabia Sitabi-Stigter’s 5 Most Anticipated Horror Movies of 2026

2026 is almost halfway over, and we’ve been eating decently with titles such as Obsession, Exit 8, and They Will Kill You. But we have so much more to look forward to later in the year, and we start immediately this summer. Now that Cannes is over and we’ve caught a glimpse of what genre

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7 Horror Video Games We’re Excited To See In 2027

Summer Game Fest and PlayStation’s State of Play happened this month, and we got a peek (and sometimes even more) of all the cool games in the making and soon to be released. Horror and genre fans were not left hungry, as so many major and indie titles were announced for their enjoyment, too. Returns

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Erotic thrillers and horror from India // Can you handle the spice?

Erotic thrillers are back in the genre scene and have been for the past few years. From documentaries to festivals doing retrospectives, to restorations of classic titles. But in the majority of all these lists and retrospectives, a large area of the world is being mostly neglected. Asia. In this second list of mine (check

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