Author: Quentin Lee

Even though I grew up in the 80s, Jack Sholder’s 1982 first feature Alone in the Dark slipped past my horror radar, until last night, in the year of The Thing, Creepshow, Amityville Possession, Halloween III, The Entity and Poltergeist which I have all watched and enjoyed as a budding horror fan entering teenhood. I have been curious about the original key art of the 1982 movie, searched for the film and found a screener on Youtube. I believe Alone in the Dark was probably one of Bob Shaye’s first couple of original New Line Cinema productions.

Returning to the city where I was born, Hong Kong, I met up with artist Chow Ciao Chow whom I first knew as Steven and a fashion design student. After years of having lost touch, we reconnected via Instagram and he told me we met years ago through a mutual friend and hung out in Hong Kong. Returning to this amazing city, I took the opportunity to interview this rising artist with a uniquely queer and Asian perspective.

Last year, Colette Johnson-Vosberg’s Unusually Normal world premiered at Inside Out. This year, she is world-premiering her LGBTQ+ follow-up feature doc Unlabelled about three trans people from Toronto at the same festival. I caught up with my prolific collaborator after hearing the news of her film’s world premiere.

Stand with Mahmoud Khalil!

On Sunday, March 2, I was enjoying a glass of champagne and popcorn while watching the 2025 Oscars show with my family. Conan O’Brien began with a polite greeting in fluent Spanish, followed by something in Hindi… and then proceeded to speak gibberish Chinese.

When I first landed in San Francisco in 1988 to go to school at Berkeley, I wasn’t planning on staying. Perhaps around Junior Year, after I came out as queer and then started identifying with Asian Americans, as most of my friends were… I thought that I might want to stay… but I didn’t know how.

If Bram Stoker gave birth to the vampire in literature, then Nosferatu gave birth to the vampire in cinema. Nosferatu is the first vampire who protagonized cinema in 1922 during the silent era, the very beginning of cinema. F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) distinguishes itself from Bram Stoker’s classic by asserting love and eroticism, rather than violence, defeats the vampire and its evil.

CHOPSO interviewed Yong Yoon who is releasing his first feature In the Land of the Blind that he made while still at UCLA Film School in the 90s for the first time to the world. In the Land of the Blind streams today via AAM.

Each year, Fresh Fear recommends 10 horror features—new, classic or rarely seen—available now on streaming to binge for Halloween! Here’s our October 2024 list…

As the Executive Producer of Barbara Kayee Lee’s documentary feature Sing My Song, I would like to cordially invite you to the FREE WORLD PREMIERE on October 9, 2024, at 7 pm in Toronto.