Imagine waking up one day to a bedroom unfamiliar to you, with a stranger lying on the bed beside you. Sounds like a normal Saturday morning? Well, what if that stranger claims to be your husband, yet you haven’t even met that person ever in your entire life until now? Jessica Rothe finds herself in such

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Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago), a 1985 sci-fi fantasy anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano. Oshii is best known for directing the cult classic adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga, Ghost in the Shell (1995), while Amano is notable for his character design work on the Final Fantasy video game series

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Unknown Tapes is a 2024 analogue horror video game created with Unreal Engine 5, developed and published by TraviTeam Games. After releasing the fast-paced, physics-based local PVP fighting game Scroter in April 2024, TraviTeam Games shifted focus toward horror games. The company released Unknown Tapes in December 2024 and is currently working on the sci-fi

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Director/writer Gerald Johnston and writer Akela Cooper’s M3GAN sequel isn’t just reheated leftovers. Instead, it serves up a familiar dish with bold new seasoning and fresher ingredients. M3GAN 2.0 ups the ante, embracing its Summer Blockbuster status with more explosions, action, and striking visuals in the next chapter of the saga of the dancing doll

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Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been a popular trend amongst sci-fi horror films these days, from Lars Klevberg’s 2019 reboot of Child’s Play to the more recent Gerard Johnstone’s 2023 horror-comedy hit, M3GAN. In this latest film from S.K. Dale, Subservience (2024), we follow an artificially intelligent gynoid/feminine humanoid robot who develops self-awareness and gains

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Lost Cos poster

Are You a Hero, Or a Villain? “Flesh, flash, and fantasy” are the themes of Broadway producer Robin de Levita’s directorial debut film, Lost Cos (2023). It follows the story of Eni (Evgeniya Radilova), a dental assistant who is traumatized by the loss of her girlfriend Lia and trying to come to terms with her

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Romi 2023

Romi is a 2023 Canadian sci-fi horror, written by Susie Moloney, and directed by Robert Cuffley. Susie is most notable as a writer on the TV shows Blackstone (2015), and Fear Thy Neighbor (2016), as well as on the feature-length film Bright Hill Road (2020). Robert is known for directing features such as Eyes for

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UFO Sweden Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2023

To believe is one thing. To know is something completely different. UFO Sweden (2022) is the emotionally driven sci-fi thriller that every fan of The X-Files needs to see. Don’t let the title throw you; there are no tiny green men or cliche flying saucers in this film. Instead, director Victor Danell and co-writer Jimmy

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In the not-so-distant future, death is a choice for some.  Robert Holz’s first feature-length film, Restore Point (2023), is a masterpiece, brilliantly capturing the dystopian future that we all fear we are headed toward in a story that feels realistic. While the film is focused on a technological breakthrough that allows humans to reboot themselves

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Thorns (2023) is an American sci-fi horror film written and directed by Douglas Schulze. Well-versed behind the camera, Douglas is most known as the writer/director of such films as Hellmaster (1992), The Rain (2009), and The Dark Below (2015); having worked with some respectable members of the acting community, including David Carridine and John Saxton,

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