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...
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The “us versus them” mentality is well and alive in Get Duked!, an effervescent gem from across the pond. Originally titled Boyz in the Wood, Ninian Doff’s debut feature follows a waged war between two very different generations. Get Duked! centers around school lads being rounded up for the Duke of Edinburgh...
