New Zealand-based sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired international sales rights to “Lily’s Ritual,” the Spanish horror feature from director Manu Herrera, which will receive its world premiere at ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Guillermo del Toro has long professed an undying appreciation for both Spanish cinema and Gothic horror. He is known to draw inspiration from the Spanish Civil War, and he set his celebrated films, ...

World cinema horror movies explore social themes using fantastical elements. Foreign horror classics like Under the Shadow offer embedded cultural narratives. Films like Ju-On: The Grudge exemplify ...

In its extensive coverage of Spain at Berlin, its European Film Market Country in Focus, Variety looks back at the country’s presence at this year’s EFM Co-Production Market. The handful of Spanish ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Long before “The Best Two Years,” “The Singles Ward” and “Mobsters and Mormons” graced movie screens, Jose Maria Oliveira was exposing audiences to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But ...