The Fairy Moon had its world première at Fantasia 2025, 27th July When Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) came out, I recall my boyish excitement at being able to catch up later with the previous two films in the series. Yet within its brief duration, The Fairy Moon manages to incorporate not…
“Is this like Saw irl?”, someone asks some way into Pavel Khvaleev‘s Sleepless Beauty (Ya ne plyu). At this stage the film’s viewers too will be recognising what they are watching as conforming to the conventions of ‘torture porn’ – that horror subgenre of the mid-Noughties, kick-started by James Wan’s Saw (2004) and Eli Roth’s…