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Don’t Leave the Kids Alone

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |

A mother unadvisedly leaves her two young sons home alone in Don’t Leave the Kids Alone chaotic but largely entertaining Mexican haunted house horror.

Teta (Grandmother)

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 20, 2024 | Festivals, Cairo 2024, Verdict Shorts |

A mother and her young son’s relationship is pushed to the limit in Teta, an unnerving psychological horror with disquieting, supernatural overtones.

The Wait

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023 |

Spanish director F. Javier Gutiérrez’s atmospheric but underpowered horror western ‘The Wait’ offers a fistful of familiar supernatural tropes.

Vermines

Posted by TFV Staff | Sep 8, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

VERDICT: Creepy but derivative killer spider thriller is angrier at the world than at arachnids.

Tag: horror film

Don’t Leave the Kids Alone

Teta (Grandmother)

The Wait

Vermines