A Time Loop, a Killer Tree and a Suicidal Puppet: Inside Cindependent’s Strange Side

Fantastic Fest spent September showing one version of where horror is headed. Back in Ohio, a festival that doesn’t even call itself a horror event was quietly offering another.

The Cindependent Film Festival is an all-genre program based in Cincinnati. It held in-person screenings at Memorial Hall and the Mariemont Theatre, then streamed every official selection online from September...