Few horror films get touted as truly terrifying these days. We’re all either desensitized by violence.. or deterred by Twitter...
The new Indian horror-fantasy Tumbbad is a dark and dangerous story of one man’s greed for a fallen god’s gold. Like all men...
Oh, The Boat. I went into this film really wanting to love it. It had all of the elements of a film right up my alley – single character, single setting, the tease of something paranormal. Sold. So sold my popcorn is already eaten. And while Winston Azzopardi’s The Boat does...
The horror-comedy One Cut Of The Dead (Kamera O Tomeru Na!) contains what is probably the silliest premise for a zombie...
I’ll admit, other than appreciating the odd festival where you’ll find me buzzing in the corner of a beer tent,...
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...
A supernatural tale unlike most you have seen before, Murder Me, Monster (Muere, Monstruo, Muere) follows a confused detective searching for a...
French filmmaker Gaspar Noé is know for making some of modern cinema’s most challenging films and while his most recent...
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....
Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair has been making movies together their entire adult lives. Their most recent film Hold The Dark,...
[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...
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...
