Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
One of my favourite films from the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival is finally premiering as a Shudder exclusive. All The...
After making 6 movies together, and recording a tiny mountain in unreleased music, it’s safe to say that the Adams’ are the coolest family on the planet. Their previous film, The Deeper You Dig, was a huge success at the 2019 Fantasia Internation Film Festival and would go on to...
[#Fantasia2021 Review] Occult Indie Horror HELLBENDER puts Mother-Daughter Relationships to the Test
Filmmaking is a family affair for the creators behind indie horror Hellbender. Who better to conjure a film about the...
If you were watching NOFS’s coverage of this year’s Fantasia Fest, you no doubt are already familiar with 12 Hour...
This year, Fantasia Fest saw its share of movies that pushed the boundaries of reality. However, none of them did it quite like Lucky. Lucky tells the story of May, a bestselling author who is visited every night by a person who tries to kill her, an antagonist known only as The Man....
While horror has delved into the subconscious waters of our dreams many times before, director Anthony Scott Burns (Our House)...
Though this year’s Fantasia Fest was chock full of the best kind of horror tropes, only a few of them...
Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the audience, to a different world. The Princess Bride is a prime example. However, very few (if any) movies make this transition between worlds actually matter to the plot, giving characters...
Horror has played with depicting the world of dreams before. The most iconic foray into the horrors of our sleeping...
I love a good haunted house film — the genre is my ghost loving horror fan addiction. But as rich...
You might think comedy is the genre for “weird families,” but I’d argue it’s horror. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner table to the Fireflys‘ freakshow, this genre is rife with crazy, cringey, commonly incestuous clans. Director Sidarth Srinivasan taps into that familiar trope for his 2020 Fantasia Fest entry,...