Between heirlooms and physical traits, we inherit a lot of things from our parents; not every one of those things...
The slasher has outlasted its presumed expiration date, and then some. The golden age of this divisive subgenre is certainly...
Trial and error is essential to dating. The process today is easily done with swipes and taps, but in a bygone era where apps had yet to exist, the alternative to old-fashioned socializing was more offbeat. Jon Stevenson’s Rent-A-Pal takes us back to 1990 when dating online was unheard of....
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Whenever I watch a vampire movie, I always wonder what it would be like to live forever. I personally don’t...
Though this year’s Fantasia Fest was chock full of the best kind of horror tropes, only a few of them used vampires. And even if they did, they didn’t use them quite like Climate of the Hunter. A funky drama between a vampire and two very weird sisters, Climate of...
Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the...
Indie film is firing on all cylinders when it’s at its most ambitious, and that’s exactly what you’re in for...
Lloyd Kaufman is a pioneer of independent cinema. For more than 45 years, his B-movie studio Troma Entertainment has been disrupting media with its ever-expanding library of wacky and wonderful films, produced for a fraction of a Hollywood budget. But at every turn, Kaufman has had to constantly carve out...
It’s been 24 years since the release of Tromeo and Juliet (and it still blows my mind that James Gunn...
I remember interning at Fantasia three years ago and attending the Frontieres Market, a place for filmmakers to pitch ideas...
Horror has played with depicting the world of dreams before. The most iconic foray into the horrors of our sleeping minds is, of course, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), with its wonderfully constructed, just slightly off, dream sequences. Countless films have depicted the dreams of characters to build tension,...