#panicfest2024 — Public Fediverse posts

One of the short films from Panic Fest 2024 was Lisa Ovies' SLEEP TIGHT, a film that Samantha Andujar rates as "a tense psychological horror that gets under your skin". Read more: https://www.horrordna.com/movies/sleep-tight-lisa-ovies-short-movie-review

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From Panic Fest 2024, Jamie Van Hove takes a look at Chris Hammarberg's WORLDS. Read more: https://www.horrordna.com/movies/worlds-chris-hammarberg-movie-review

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"an apartment complex in the Parisian banlieue aggressively invaded by a terrifying foreign species": Sébastien Vanicek’s spidery feature debut INFESTED (VERMINES, 2023) closes Panic Fest 9pm tonight, and comes to Shudder 26 April #PanicFest2024 #Horror #Spiders #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2024/03/23/infested-vermines-2023/

“found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world”: Graham Hughes’ HOSTILE DIMENSIONS screens 8.45pm tonight at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024. Review for SciFiNow #Movies #FoundFootage https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hostile-dimensions-review-at-frightfest-scary-funny-sci-fi-on-a-budget/

In Amanda Nell Eu’s vibrant coming-of-age (creature) feature debut TIGER STRIPES (2023), "menarche is also monstrous metamorphosis into a wilder, freer femininity". Screens 8.30pm tonight at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #CreatureFeature https://projectedfigures.com/2023/10/05/tiger-stripes-2023/

Send in the clowns: Raymond Wood’s metacinematic revenge psycho-slasher FACELESS AFTER DARK "smartly subverts the gendered norms of Hollywood horror", with a phenomenal performance from Jenna Kanell. Screens 7.15pm today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #Horror https://projectedfigures.com/2023/08/25/faceless-after-dark-2023

"Jason Yu’s psychodramatic feature debut brings ambiguous Polanskian dread to a new family in a nightmarish apartment": the final film to star Lee Sun-kyun, SLEEP (2023) screens 8.30pm tonight at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2024/03/01/sleep-jam-2003/

"a woman’s struggle to pick up the pieces of who she is and wants to be under patriarchal pressures": Justin M. Best's Sheryl (2023) screens virtually from 7pm tonight at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 Recommended #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2024/04/08/sheryl-2023

"Kourtney Roy’s (creature?) feature debut tracks a Lynchian woman lost in the woods on a confused search for a missing cyptozoologist": KRYPTIC (2024) screens 6.30pm tonight at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2024/03/11/kryptic-2024/

How to disappear completely: Aaron Irons’ mockumentary speleological psychodrama JEFFREYS' HELL (2024) "finds its lost subject caught between a rock and a hard place." Virtual screening from 5pm today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024. Recommended. #Movies #FoundFootage #Cave https://projectedfigures.com/2024/04/07/jeffreys-hell-2024/

Folk (song) horror: Paul Duane's funny, freaky, fucked-up ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (2023) "plays out present cover versions of past love, betrayal and accursed vengeance". Screens 6pm tonight at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #Horror #FolkHorror https://projectedfigures.com/2023/10/13/all-you-need-is-death-2023/

Ghost(re)watch: Dominic O’Neill’s feature debut Haunted Ulster Live (2023) "purports to be a live television broadcast from a haunted house over Halloween in 1998". Virtual screening from 3pm today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #Horror #Mockumentary https://projectedfigures.com/2023/08/26/haunted-ulster-live-2023/

Rip(tide) Van Winkle: Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes’ ghostly mystery THE ISLAND BETWEEN TIDES (2024) "traps a young woman in time, and in a paradoxical paradise". Screens 3pm today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #Ghosts #Time https://projectedfigures.com/2024/03/08/the-island-between-tides-2024/

"the future of humanity may depend on an ordinary woman turned fugitive": John Rosman's genre-inf(l)ected chase movie NEW LIFE screens 1pm today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024. Review for SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/new-life-review-at-fantasia-a-tense-breathless-chase-movie/

Old haunts, new hosts: Jill Gevargizian's GHOST GAME (2024) "places thrill-seeking fake ghosts in a haunted house that may be hiding real ones". Just had its world première at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Horror #Movies #Phrogging https://projectedfigures.com/2024/04/06/ghost-game-2024/

“two clashing gen-Z paranormal investigators in a small town’s (maybe) haunted house, mythic to its foundations”: Tony Reames’ feature debut SPOOKT (2023) screens 3pm today, virtual and in-person, at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #Cinemastodon #Horror https://projectedfigures.com/2023/08/26/spookt-2023/

Land of reckoning: F. Javier Gutierrez’s enigmatic horror oater THE WAIT (LA ESPERA, 2023) "makes a Spanish ranch in the 1970s reecho with Old Testament morality." Screens 1.30pm today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024. Very good. #Movies #Horror #SpanishCinema https://projectedfigures.com/2024/04/06/the-wait-la-espera-2023

Break on through (to the other side): Sean Nichols Lynch’s ‘cult’ mockumentary THE CEREMONY IS ABOUT TO BEGIN (2024) "pits a weak-minded filmmaker against a sociopathic hierophant". Screens noon today at Panic Fest #PanicFest2024 #Movies #Horror https://projectedfigures.com/2024/04/06/the-ceremony-is-about-to-begin-2024/