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...
The uncomfortable silence of an awkward pause, the suspicion that someone might be talking about you when you leave the room, the isolating feeling of not belonging; these fairly common experiences are the staples of many a high school hallway, work party, or frenemy gathering. But they also are the...
Being a teenager almost always feels like an inescapable curse, but the 17-year-old girl at the center of Thomas Robert...
Death as a career makes for an interesting life. It’s like holding the great beyond with oven mitts, the corners...
The Brothers Grimm and the like laid the groundwork for modern storytelling. From damsels in distress to wicked parental figures who sacrificed their own young, these antique fables have shaped today’s narratives in countless ways. Although their undiluted forms can be entirely too gruesome for younger listeners, these often morbid...
Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle documents five years in the life of an indie filmmaker. The documentary is not only a must-see...
In Sao Paulo, a city already rife with poverty, death and corruption, an ancient evil will be awakened, bringing destruction...
It’s ironic that the fantasy genre, for all its promises to sweep us away to a world of, well, fantasy, has fallen into such a pattern of predictability. Despite an abundance of dreams, magic, and epic quests, most fantasy worlds still look like medieval Europe. There are exceptions of course....
After its World Premiere at 2019’s Fantasia Film Festival, The Wretched quickly became a film to watch…literally and figuratively. Following...
It’s finally here! Former Misfits singer Glenn Danzig’s debut feature Verotika has been released to the masses! The movie is...
In Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist, documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe turns his obsessive interests to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). Philippe’s most recent films have fixated on the development of Ridley Scott’s Alien and its evolution from screenwriter Dan O’Bannon’s original concept in Memory :The Origins of Alien (2019) as...