68%
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In 2018, while visiting the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal for the world premiere of his movie LOUDER! Can’t Hear...
68%
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Jesse Thomas Cook’s cult-busting, gut-busting indie flick Cult Hero recently celebrated its world premiere at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival. The...
87.5%
At a time when the box office is oversaturated with mid-tier Hollywood superhero movies, one film out of Europe has done the impossible by making me fall in love with a group of misfits with superpowers. Freaks Out is the sophomore feature from Italian director Gabriele Mainetti and writer Nicola...
60%
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In 2017, audiences around the world were raving about a little film out of Japan called One Cut of the...
67.5%
Serial killer movies are rarely fun. Case and point: Karim Ouelhaj’s Megalomaniac. Although not fully based on a true story, this...
71.25%
Andy Mitton, who shocked Fantasia attendees with his 2018 ghost story The Witch In The Window, returns to the festival with a new take on the already well-trodden COVID horror story. The Harbinger is a story that could be told without the COVID trappings but it’s a tool used to show the...
72.5%
When it comes to demons escaping hell to lay siege to your family’s bloodline, it never rains- it pours. Very...
83.75%
Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
63.75%
Lovecraftian monster and Lovecraftian madness descend on a small cabin-in-the-woods of northern Ontario, Canada in Rodrigo Gudiño’s The Breach. Adapted from an audible original book by Nick Cutter (aka Craig Davidson), The Breach drops a small town cop, his ex-wife/tracker, and a local medical expert into the puzzling nightmare of other-worldly monsters and...
67.5%
Kyle Edward Ball’s experimental debut feature Skinamarink is an eerie, elongated nightmare plucked straight from the mind of your childhood self....
88%
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Japanese/South Korean co-production Missing weaves a tangled web of death and deception that ensnares a father and daughter in the twisted...
83.75%
In Jesse Thomas Cook’s goofy action-thriller Cult Hero, disgraced “cult buster” and deprogrammer Dale Domazar (Ry Barrett) is called up out of retirement for one last job. After a botched extraction of a sadistic death cult that resulted in mass suicide, Dale has become the internet’s punching bag. Once a celebrated pop culture...
