Though this year’s Fantasia Fest was chock full of the best kind of horror tropes, only a few of them...
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Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the...
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Indie film is firing on all cylinders when it’s at its most ambitious, and that’s exactly what you’re in for with For The Sake of Vicious. Indie Horror is never a surprise in the low-budget market but Indie Action is another thing altogether. Action sequences are complicated, they require significantly more...
Lloyd Kaufman is a pioneer of independent cinema. For more than 45 years, his B-movie studio Troma Entertainment has been...
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It’s been 24 years since the release of Tromeo and Juliet (and it still blows my mind that James Gunn...
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I remember interning at Fantasia three years ago and attending the Frontieres Market, a place for filmmakers to pitch ideas and rake in funding for their next project. While walking around the crowded room aimlessly, I was handed a postcard, advertising a movie called Slaxx, with the subtitle “An ass...
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Horror has played with depicting the world of dreams before. The most iconic foray into the horrors of our sleeping...
Since the beginning of Fantasia 2020, I’ve been telling everyone I know about Fried Barry, a wild and colorful film...
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I love a good haunted house film — the genre is my ghost loving horror fan addiction. But as rich a sub-genre as it is, it sometimes feels like there’s only so many ways to tell a haunted house story. That’s why it’s such a treat when you happen upon...
Although most are familiar with the “La Llorona” legend, this latest adaptation is a fresh take that tackles the complicated...
In Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie in 2000 there were hints that a particularly creative filmmaker could use the mutant...
[Making a Monster] How Filmmaking Frustrations Yielded Clive Barker’s “Super-Butchers” in HELLRAISER
“What’s in the box?!” As it turns out, there are much worse things to find in there than Gwyneth Paltrow’s head. It’s Hot As Hell this month at Nightmare on Film Street, and well, it’s certainly hot as hell! Nature’s oven currently sets at 95 degrees outside my door, but...
