I was lucky enough to catch the premiere of Over Your Dead Body at SXSW 2026, and it’s my favorite of the festival. It’s directed by Jorma Taccone and written by Tommy Wirkola, Nick Ball, and John Niven. Samara Weaving and Jason Segel star as a married couple who have decided to kill one another […]
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The Life We Leave is a peek into the death industry. The documentary made its debut at SXSW and delved into one specific form of death care known as terramation (aka human composting). We will all die one day. It’s something we in the horror community think about on a daily basis. While we may
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Way too many genre fans do not know that modern zombies evolved from Haitian spirituality. They also do not want to listen when people tell them that films have given them the negative portrayal they think is the gospel. This is why Maya Annik Bedward’s new documentary Black Zombie is doing a lot of love
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As someone who comes from a big family, I know family feuds don’t stop for anything. So, I find Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer’s Drag more charming and relatable than I should. The film doesn’t reinvent the thriller subgenre. However, it does give a couple of actresses a fun playground to showcase their comedic timing.
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The horror comedy anthology, Grind, made its premiere at SXSW! I’m here to tell you I was all about it and not just because it stars the lovely Barbara Crampton, amongst other fine actors. The four-part anthology focuses on the put-upon worker in the gray landscape of big corporations and capitalistic greed. It’s smart, funny,
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Fucktoys (stylized as F*cktoys) is a clever, sexy, pop-punk, grindhouse adventure. Writer and director Annapurna Sriram crafts a raucous fantasy world that is unafraid to play in its smutty little sandbox. It is one of those surprise festival darlings that reminds jaded filmgoers why we find magic in celluloid. The film finds AP (Sriram) discovering
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Assimilation is a forced reality for many marginalized groups, and Slanted taps into a long history of people altering themselves to “fit in.” In my own family, my grandmother was raised with the warning, “Don’t tell people you’re Jewish,” a common fear in communities that have faced discrimination. For another part of my family, due
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Is this a safe space where I can admit I am not a Star Wars girl? If so, I would like to explain why Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) was the main reason I was excited to see We Bury the Dead. I have many friends who sang Ridley’s praises
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I watched Drop early on at SXSW 2025, and lo and behold, it stayed in my top 3 from this festival. I felt like I was in the thick of this wild date. One where anything that can go wrong goes bizarrely wrong. There is no reason for this situation to ever exist. Yet it
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Many of us have been curious to see what Together is about. We know it’s a horror movie starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco with a very vague summary. So, most of us showed up not knowing what subgenre it would be. Or even an expectation of what type of shenanigans we were
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