Four female filmmakers direct tales of terror in the anthology film XX. In Jovanka Vucokic’s The Box, Susan (Natalie Brown) becomes concerned when her son Danny (Peter DaCunha) suddenly stops eating after peaking in a stranger’s box, with the affliction slowly spreading to the other members of the family. In Annie Clark‘s The Birthday Party, Mary […]

A hijab-clad female vampire stalks people in an Iranian ghost town in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.  Bad City is an Iranian ghost town home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls.  Little do these foul residents know that they are stalked at night by a female vampire (Sheila Vand), who looks […]