Dennison Ramalho’s feature debut The Night Shifter is a macabre and maniacal tale of morality and vengeance from beyond the grave. Heavily...
In true Fantastic Fest fashion, the festival surprised everyone when this year’s secret screening was announced to be none other...
Perhaps one of the oddest films we’ve seen at this years Fantastic Fest is co-writer/director Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns). This film is a morbid, sometimes disgusting fairy tale set in a modern-day Sweden. Unfortunately, the less said about this movie the better, so apologies for being intentionally vague or withholding. Film Festivals...
If it possible to be both a serial slasher and a family man? Bloodline from Blumhouse Productions and director Henry...
Can a gritty crime thriller be both dark and feel-good? Writer/Director Drew Goddard sure thinks so in his swinging ensemble...
When it comes to review writing, I typically don’t struggle. I’m not trying to toot my own horn or anything, I know my reviews aren’t the most expert, well-articulated thoughts in town – but that’s the point. I pride myself on writing digestible, unpretentious, and honest opinions and recommendations. Those...
[Fantastic Fest Review] THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK is A Brilliantly Tense Noir Fueled By Paranoia
Henry Dunham’s The Standoff At Sparrow Creek celebrated its US premiere at the 2018 Fantastic Fest, stunning and disarming every single...
Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair has been making movies together their entire adult lives. Their most recent film Hold The Dark,...
Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is not only a transformative film for her career, it presents the classically beautiful Nicole Kidman has a hardened, drink-sick detective. Her skin is tough leather, encasing a fire that burns so intensively inside her that she breaths smoke, ready to explode on everyone that crosses her....
French filmmaker Gaspar Noé is know for making some of modern cinema’s most challenging films and while his most recent...
A supernatural tale unlike most you have seen before, Murder Me, Monster (Muere, Monstruo, Muere) follows a confused detective searching for a...
A last-minute addition to the 2018 Fantastic Fest schedule, Richard Shepard’s The Perfection was definitely not a hard decision. Fitting right in with this year’s musical-minded genre fair – nestled comfortably among Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria scored by Thom Yorke, the simplistically synthy Halloween scored by John Carpenter, and the strange, danceworthy...