We’ve all been in those awkward situations where we find ourselves in a room full of strangers, hesitant to be...
Taking drugs can bring up a wide range of emotions: anxiety, euphoria, numbness, the feeling of immortality or being connected...
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Nicolas Pesce’s The Grudge hits theatres this weekend, welcoming cinema-goers to a new year of horror movies. Featuring probably the strongest cast the franchise has ever seen, the film is as light on story as it is heavy on new ideas to anchor itself in stateside folklore. Pesce, tapped for the...
More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar,...
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Psychological horror is an often overused label, but the new indie horror The Dead Center is the rare bird that...
Director. Writer. Actor. Artist. Journalist. When it comes to the horror genre, the craft of quality filmmaking is found in the hands of a very particular person: the fan. David Weiner has worn many hats throughout his illustrious career, but horror audiences are lucky enough to catch him currently donning...
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Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead’s Synchronic celebrated its US premiere at Fantastic Fest 2019 simultaneously shattering reality and presenting a...
I had a bit of a Munro Chambers marathon last week; I watched Harpoon one night, Riot Girls for lunch...
Friendship is hard. This is a fact that director Rob Grant knows very well as seen in his latest film, Harpoon, which recently screened at Fantasia 2019. It is a film about underlying resentment, rivalries, jealousy, and toxic masculinity disguised under the very thin veil of just three friends going...
Canada’s national treasure of indie genre cinema, Bruce McDonald, returns with a dark and dreamy oeuvre titled Dreamland. Those who...
The 2019 Fantasia Film Festival is home to surprising and shocking cinema and their Fantasia Underground program is the showcase...
Opening the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival Underground program this year was a surprising indie film, and one of the festival’s major discoveries, from a family of filmmakers that put everything they have into their DIY projects. The Deeper You Dig, which celebrated its world premiere at the festival July 11, is...
