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Film Festival Review: 'The Face of Horror'

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Anna Biller's film 'The Face of Horror' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The movie is a technicolor fever dream based on a medieval ghost story, featuring themes of love, betrayal, and vengeance.

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‘The Face of Horror’ Review: Anna Biller’s Medieval Ghost Story Is A Technicolor Fever Dream Of Love, Betrayal & Vengeance — Toronto Film Festival

A decade after her sophomore feature The Love Witch, Anna Biller has returned from a whole other era with another technicolor fever dream of female rage. In The Face of Horror, the writer/director updates the Kabuki ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan, which she deconstructs for the medieval era with help fr

2026-09-12 20:13 UTC