66.25%
Whenever I watch a vampire movie, I always wonder what it would be like to live forever. I personally don’t...
66.25%
Though this year’s Fantasia Fest was chock full of the best kind of horror tropes, only a few of them...
55%
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Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the audience, to a different world. The Princess Bride is a prime example. However, very few (if any) movies make this transition between worlds actually matter to the plot, giving characters...
60%
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...
87.5%
It’s been 24 years since the release of Tromeo and Juliet (and it still blows my mind that James Gunn wrote part of the screenplay). The adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic romance story is gross, violent, and punk as hell. More than two decades later, B-movie studio giants Troma has...
77.5%
I remember interning at Fantasia three years ago and attending the Frontieres Market, a place for filmmakers to pitch ideas...
80.5%
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 about a junkie who gets abducted by aliens and then goes on an adventure around Cape Town. It’s the debut feature for director Ryan Kruger, but along with lead actor...
86.75%
I love a good haunted house film — the genre is my ghost loving horror fan addiction. But as rich...
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 mayhem to make a horror movie. From Magneto discovering his powers when separated his parents in a Concentration Camp, to Rogue practically killing her boyfriend when her energy-sucking powers emerge,...
