GENRE BLAST X: This House Is Totally Haunted (2026)
Following up on 2024’s The Ceremony is About to Begin, Sean Nichols Lynch returns with This House is Totally Haunted, a film that doesn’t just subvert the genre’s rigid rulebook; it gleefully takes a sledgehammer to it. The premise hits the ground running when a cryptic letter from “Surviving in Shasta” lands on the lap […]
GENRE BLAST X Shorts Blast #1: Tripping the Sci-Fantastic
Here’s the first lineup of shorts I watched at Genre Blast. Wooly Bully (2025): What a rough watch. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I mean that in an “I have lived this movie” way. My dad’s descent into dementia was not easy to navigate, and as always, avoidance and denial were probably […]
GENRE BLAST X: Get That Dick (2026)
Bugs (Sean Ashlet) is a burned-out Atlanta private investigator who thinks he is taking on a simple, quick-cash gig when he agrees to help a foul-mouthed kid on the run. That easy money evaporates instantly once he realizes the boy is fleeing the clutches of a dangerous, unhinged cult. What follows is a relentless, chaotic […]
GENRE BLAST X: Final Transmissions (2026)
Final Transmissions was announced as a six-episode analog horror anthology series co-created by the husband-and-wife team Steven Hugh Nelson and Erica Nelson (Old Wounds). However, it played as a film at Genre Blast X, an anthology set in the small, eerie town of Eldritch, Illinois, in 1999. There, a local cable-access TV host begins broadcasting […]
GENRE BLAST X: The Black Hills Night Hike (2026)
While horror fans immediately hear “Black Hills” and think of Burkittsville from The Blair Witch Project, The Black Hills Night Hike broadens the lens to the entire state of Maryland, framing the region as an interconnected web of tall tales trapped between the western mountains and the eastern bay. The narrative backbone of The Black […]
GENRE BLAST X: The Barn Part III (2026)
Remember when Sam and Josh battled The Boogeyman, Hollow Jack and The Candy Corn Scarecrow? Or when Michelle and Charlie also got messed up in the battle against the forces of Hell? That was thirty years ago, and everyone has either walked away or forgotten what happened, except for Josh — now Pastor Josh (Courtney […]
GENRE BLAST X: Sunshine Girls (2026)
Directed by Madeleine Hicks, this is the story of Elaine (Clara Vance). She’s teetering on the edge of thirty, living in a world that’s suffocating under the weight of total environmental collapse. More than right now, that is. Oxygen is a luxury, and humanity is dying. The government solution is a medical procedure that repurposes […]
GENRE BLAST X: Angel Lust (2026)
Directed and written by Michael Fausti, Angel Lust plunges headfirst into a dark, romantic labyrinth where history, mortality and unyielding passion collide. The film opens in the cold shadows of 1782, where Ophelia Danube (Roe Haven) suffers execution for the ultimate crime of defying the rigid moral codes of her society. But death is far […]
FANTASIA 2026: After School (2026)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
FANTASIA 2026: Blaise (2026)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
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