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At the 2026 Overlook Film Festival, legendary makeup effects artist Rick Baker received the Master of Horror Award, celebrating a career that has shaped the genre and inspired generations of devote…

At the 2026 Overlook Film Festival, legendary makeup effects artist Rick Baker received the Master of Horror Award, celebrating a career that has shaped the genre and inspired generations of devote…

by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer It’s hard to be a woman, and several of this year’s selections at the Overlook Film Festival mine the female experience for its myriad horrors.

By far, the strangest movie I screened as part of this year's Overlook Film Festival is Buffet Infinity. Initially, once the credits rolled, I didn't know what to think about the film and its unconven...

Bob Odenkirk's career has been interesting to follow. He's still best known as Saul from Breaking Bad and its sequel, Better Call Saul. Since then, however, he's become somewhat of an action star, tha...

★★★ Louis Chan and Stone Chang’s Suffocation is an ambitious haunted-school chiller whose decent jump scares and strong urban-legend hook partially overcome the pacing limitations of its single-tak…

Horror fans know Jessica Rothe best for director Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day movies. Her character, Tree, is one of the most likeable final girls of the last decade. Part of this has to do wi...

Horror fans know Jessica Rothe best for director Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day movies. Her character, Tree, is one of the most likeable final girls of the last decade. Part of this has to do wi...

Directed by Genki Kawamura, Exit 8 is an adaptation of a walking simulator game of the same name by Japanese indie developer Kotake Create. Like the game, the film establishes its easy-to-follow rules early on, while its unnamed protagonist, played by Kazunari Ninomiya, is stuck in purgatory and must solve a puzzle to escape an endless loop in subway tunnels. The premise is simple, but that doesn't make the mind-bending film any less enjoyable, or at times, unsettling.The film begins with a near

Directed by Genki Kawamura, Exit 8 is an adaptation of a walking simulator game of the same name by Japanese indie developer Kotake Create. Like the game, the film establishes its easy-to-follow rules early on, while its unnamed protagonist, played by Kazunari Ninomiya, is stuck in purgatory and must solve a puzzle to escape an endless loop in subway tunnels. The premise is simple, but that doesn't make the mind-bending film any less enjoyable, or at times, unsettling.The film begins with a near

The 1978 film Faces of Death is a notorious horror movie that was banned in 46 countries. It features plane crashes, animal violence, autopsies, and several depraved and grotesque sequences. Its documentary style only increased its viral quality, as did the fact it was banned so much. In fact, nothing worked better for its word-of-mouth and cult status than its controversy. Now, it's 2026 and we have a Faces of Death remake, fit for the influencer era and social media age. Instead of simply recr

Cinema is filled with men, trying to engineer devotion from women who never offered it freely. Barker’s film slides, neatly into that lineage, asking a simple but unsettling question: what actually…

Cinema is filled with men, trying to engineer devotion from women who never offered it freely. Barker’s film slides, neatly into that lineage, asking a simple but unsettling question: what actually…

by Rachel Shatto, Staff Writer Selecting my most anticipated films this year proved to be a unique challenge, as the program is packed with intriguing, exciting, and challenging new films.