Nightmares might result from this collection of four shorts of uneven quality by female filmmakers, three dealing with themes of motherhood.

The wry horror anthology “XX,” a recent Sundance Film Festival premiere now at the Music Box, gathers together four compact films by female writers and d...

A female-fronted horror anthology of shorts often more interesting in premise than execution.

Motherhood is a nightmare, birthday parties a bust and camping trips get messy in 'XX,' a quartet of horror shorts written and directed by women, with a cast...

Women directors are largely underrepresented in the horror genre, despite the amount of women who appear in horror films.

Annie Clark makes her directorial debut in this convention-flipping collection of shorts.

I've long had nightmares about being a mother. In some, I am abruptly pregnant, my belly a beachball before me, threatening to burst. In others, my stomach w...

A dispatch on four films from the Midnight program of this year's Sundance Film Festival.

There may be a vague through line about upending the traditional female roles of mother, wife and caretaker, but if XX is trying to make some sort of stateme...

Horror anthology featuring four individual stories written and directed by female filmmakers

To begin, we must acknowledge a painful fact: omnibus features are only as strong as their weakest link, and it's clear that production company XYZ Films lea...

XX is the new V/H/S

Horror movies made by women are nothing new, but the genre seems particularly hospitable to young woman filmmakers today, a way of sneaking into the...

A horror anthology, which includes the directorial debut of Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent), puts the focus on female filmmakers.

Four talented female filmmakers give it their best shot in the polished portmanteau pic "XX," with predictably mixed results.

XX is a mundane horror anthology at best, and a slow-burn experience that never reaches a boil at its worst.