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

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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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Overlook Film Festival 2026 // Titles Not To Be Overlooked

Even though I wasn’t able to attend in person like my colleagues, I watched a ton of festival titles already this year. For instance, Overlook Film Festival 2026 had a solid line-up with big names such as opener and Audience Award winner Obsession, Queer Horror Leviticus, scary atmospheric Hokum, creepy Never After Dark, and Japanese

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Bring On the Sexy // 8 Indian Horror Remakes For a Night in With Friends

When people think of Indian cinema in the West, often their first thought is Bollywood – colourful clothing and elaborate dance breaks interchanged with drama. Or if they’re a little more informed, they might think of South Indian cinema such as RRR or Bahubali. The sub-continent has a vast landscape of cinema and does its

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South Korean Erotic Thrillers // Yes, Please

Erotic thrillers are back in the genre scene the past few years. There’s documentaries and festivals doing retrospectives, and also restorations of classic titles. But in the majority of them, a large area of the world is being mostly neglected – Asia. There are many Asian countries that have their own amazing flavour of Erotic/Sexy

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