Luciferina, which loosely translated means “bringer of light”, tells the story of 19-year-old Natalia who travels to a small island...
Director Nicholas Pesce generated considerable buzz with his directorial debut, The Eyes of my Mother (2016). Now, with Piercing, he...
As film fans, we are constantly in search for new, exciting and fresh material. This fact extends to franchises and films we know and love, and it is here that the world of fan films has found its home. With the popularization and advent of such platforms as YouTube, fan...
Ask any horror fan what they consider the best decade of horror filmmaking is, and more likely than not they’ll...
When democracy fails, it’s not hard to believe in a “deep state” conspiracy. Whether it’s the Illuminati or Lizard People,...
There is a special magic in the folk tale. Modern media can give you great stories, for sure. But folklore is in our bones. There’s something about an organic legend that just means more, as though its oral history or long lifespan gives it more worth. It’s been imbued by...
When our fearless leaders, Jon and Kim, saw Starfish at this year’s Fantastic Fest, they were quite confused, to say...
“People like sex and violence. And if that bothers them, they call it romance and adventure…but every great movie has...
Just in time for Halloween comes a comic book movie about becoming possessed by an entity that turns you into a monster! Venom, based on the popular Marvel antihero, comes to us with big plans. This isn’t just a movie, or at least it doesn’t want to be just a movie....
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...
The horror-comedy One Cut Of The Dead (Kamera O Tomeru Na!) contains what is probably the silliest premise for a zombie...
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...
