In Jesse Thomas Cook’s goofy action-thriller Cult Hero, disgraced “cult buster” and deprogrammer Dale Domazar (Ry Barrett) is called up out of...
When it comes to demons escaping hell to lay siege to your family’s bloodline, it never rains- it pours. Very...
Kyle Edward Ball’s experimental debut feature Skinamarink is an eerie, elongated nightmare plucked straight from the mind of your childhood self. Shot in a way that looks more like a collection of hyper-specific memories rather than a movie, it’s a dread-fueled trip into the lives of two children trying to make...
At a time when the box office is oversaturated with mid-tier Hollywood superhero movies, one film out of Europe has...
Andy Mitton, who shocked Fantasia attendees with his 2018 ghost story The Witch In The Window, returns to the festival...
In 2017, audiences around the world were raving about a little film out of Japan called One Cut of the Dead. At first glance, the movie appeared to be yet another grainy micro-budget zombie flick, so viewers entered the film with low expectations. But those who stuck around til the...
Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
Japanese/South Korean co-production Missing weaves a tangled web of death and deception that ensnares a father and daughter in the twisted...
Relax, I’m From the Future is the debut feature for Luke Higginson, based on his short that premiered at TIFF back in 2013. In the short, a man is about to commit suicide, but is interrupted by someone claiming to be from the future. This idea of someone bumbling to change...
Serial killer movies are rarely fun. Case and point:Â Karim Ouelhaj’s Megalomaniac. Although not fully based on a true story, this...
The world is a pretty shitty place for most people, and in Véronique Jadin’s L’Employée du Mois (Employee of The...
In 2018, while visiting the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal for the world premiere of his movie LOUDER! Can’t Hear What You’re Singin’, Wimp!, Japanese filmmaker Satoshi Miki said in an interview that his dream project would be to set a movie in the aftermath of a kaiju attack and...