You might find difficulty being eloquent when it comes to navigating and expressing thoughts on YOU'RE NEXT. If so, it’s because the literal buzzing you're left with, upon its end, gives you essentially one word: great. YOU'RE NEXT is great.

LIVID is a stunner of a second film. Following INSIDE—what’s probably the most striking contemporary horror debut—Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury have begun to carve their niche, proving their adeptness at switching tone and subgenre while crafting recognizable and intriguing style and thematic obsessions all their own.  Thankfully, that style elevates an admittedly thin story and lack of cohesion into a surreal, lyrical and moving nightmare.

Thanks to the talent of filmmakers Chan-wook Park and Ji-woon Kim, it’s seemed most recently that South Korea was tops for tales of morally murky vengeance. This year however, Hong Kong seems poised to leave you breathless. The country last wowed us with its penchant for brutality in the standout DREAM HOME just a few months ago and making its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest this week is Ching-po Wong’s devastating REVENGE: A LOVE STORY.

Tom Six is in direct dialogue with his audience, and while the highly anticipated sequel to his veritably vapid cult sensation isn’t perfect by any means, it’s incredibly interesting and exciting to see something responsive and engaging (and visually striking to boot) from the filmmaker.

The despair and frightening solitude that horror often strives for has a real life parallel; life in the armed forces. It seems obvious, but it’s rarely used to its full potential. Thankfully, THE SQUAD (world premiering at Fantastic Fest), the debut from Colombian filmmaker Jaime Osorio Marquez is an incredibly worthy and unsettling addition to the military horror section of our beloved genre.

South Korea has been one of the strongest contenders in the world when it comes to contemporary genre, exporting electric films we find it hard to shake post-viewing. Unfortunately, this fact may just be what brings the perfectly fun BLIND down.

Sadly, we live in the sort of times that encourage an influx of gloomy postapocalypse movies. Incessant global conflict tied in with mounting economic and environmental horror stories has the world’s future troublingly uncertain. Director Doug Aarniokoski’s THE DAY, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, is the latest pessimistic prognostication that aims to have viewers rushing out to stock up on munitions and canned goods.