A last-minute addition to the 2018 Fantastic Fest schedule, Richard Shepard’s The Perfection was definitely not a hard decision. Fitting right...
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 film Climax is not unlike his previous work, it is easily his most commercially accessible. For anyone concerned that the film would be as unsettling as Enter The Void or as...
Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is not only a transformative film for her career, it presents the classically beautiful Nicole Kidman has...
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 person in attendance. At least, I assume it did because I stumbled out of the theater in a daze, unable to even formulate words. Like the first time I saw...
When it comes to review writing, I typically don’t struggle. I’m not trying to toot my own horn or anything,...
Can a gritty crime thriller be both dark and feel-good? Writer/Director Drew Goddard sure thinks so in his swinging ensemble...
If it possible to be both a serial slasher and a family man? Bloodline from Blumhouse Productions and director Henry Jacobson sure think so. The film seeks to subvert your expectations of standard slasher fare, to obliterate your comfort zones, and to help you shed your assumptions – starting with...
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...
In true Fantastic Fest fashion, the festival surprised everyone when this year’s secret screening was announced to be none other...
Dennison Ramalho’s feature debut The Night Shifter is a macabre and maniacal tale of morality and vengeance from beyond the grave. Heavily steeped in fantasy and Brazilian superstition, the film is a harrowing but humorous story. The Night Shifter marks Ramalho’s feature film debut after several shorts, including the ‘J is For Jesus’ segment...
