IT LIVES INSIDE Review: The Monster Next Door
Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, and Mohana Krishnan star in a horror thriller, directed by Bishal Dutta.
RELAX, I'M FROM THE FUTURE Review: Chaotic Buddy Comedy
Rhys Darby, Gabrielle Graham, Janinie Theriault and Julian Richings star in a time-travel comedy, directed by Luke Higginson, based on his own short film.
Fantastic Fest 2023 Preview: Too Many Great Flicks to Count
Leaves are falling and there's a mild chill in the air. It's Fall Fest Season and that means Fantastic Fest! It's a big year for new genre flicks and some of the best will be playing in Austin from September...
SLOTHERHOUSE Review: A Slowpoke Slasher Slays Sorority Sisters
One would be forgiven for stepping into a film titled Slotherhouse with incredibly low expectations. The title and gimmick of the film – mass murdering sloth takes out an entire sorority – doesn’t exactly conjure visions of the masters, and...
Toronto 2023 Review: RIDDLE OF FIRE, These Three Kids Will Do Anything To Do Nothing All Summer
There’s something ethereal about Weston Razooli’s Toronto Midnight Madness closer, Riddle of Fire. It’s whimsical, but in a rough-hewn sort of way that puts it somewhere in the aesthetic neighborhood of Avalon Fast’s 2022 Slamdance discovery, Honeycomb. Both films exist...
SATANIC HISPANICS Review: A Bounty of Bloody Tales From All Across Latin America
What do you get when you bring five of the most talented Hispanic genre filmmakers in the indie space together on a horrorific anthology project? A whole lot of bloody fun, and that’s exactly what Satanic Hispanics delivers. Four very...
STRAYS Review: This Dog Will Hunt. An Incredibly Filthy Journey With Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx.
Josh Greenbaum’s Strays is a raunchy, ridiculous comedy about a little dog who’ll do anything to get back to his owner, though not for the reasons one might think. The director returns after the hilarious, huge-hearted Barb and Star Go...
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER Review: Dracula Sets Sail On Seas Of Blood
Inspired by a single harrowing chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter fleshes out the ill-fated sea journey from Romania to England of literature’s most terrifying vampire. What was a little less than two...
SATAN WANTS YOU Review: Terrifying, Hilarious, Infuriating Doc
We don’t often cover documentaries here, but once in a while a film will cross our paths that it makes sense to discuss. A new film directed by Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor definitely fits that bill. An exploration...
Fantasia 2023 Review: VINCENT MUST DIE, A Black Comedy About Getting Beaten Up By Strangers
Have you ever come across a person who, while they may make absolutely zero impact on your day, still has a face you just want to punch? That’s Vincent (Karim Leklou), a passionless, personality-free office worker who is having the...
MEG 2: THE TRENCH Review: The Megalodons Are Back, And They Brought Friends
Just when you thought it was safe to go 25,000 meters below the water… again. Five years ago, almost to the day, the world was blessed with the pretty good-est giant shark movie of the 21st century in Jon Turteltaub’s...
Fantasia 2023 Review: KILLING ROMANCE, An Exuberant Slapstick Genre-Bender With A Lot On Its Mind
Killing Romance is an ebullient explosion of poppy music and poppier visuals that is a guaranteed crowd pleaser from Lee Won-suk, director of popular indie charmer How to Use Guys with Secret Tips. Already a massive hit in its native...
Fantasia 2023 Review: RAGING GRACE, An Immigrant Housekeeper Faces A Domestic Nightmare With Her Daughter
Debutante director Paris Zarcilla delivers a fiery first feature in Raging Grace, the story of an immigrant woman who takes a much needed service job in the wrong house. Starring Max Eigenmann as Joy and Jaeden Paige Boadilla as her...
Fantasia 2023 Review: WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN Is One From The Heart, Whatever Shape Yours Takes
What if when we talked about giving someone our heart, we actually meant it? First time feature filmmaker Kim Albright and writer Julia Lederer explore what happens when our innermost feelings, good and bad, manifest physically in With Love and...
Fantasia 2023 Review: BABY ASSASSINS 2 BABIES, A Breathtaking Action Comedy Franchise Continues
One might be forgiven for being a bit confused at the opening of Sakamoto Yugo's Baby Assassins 2 Babies. There are indeed a pair of scrappy young killers casually approaching a murder for hire gig, they do handle it in...
Fantasia 2023 Review: DEVILS, Body Swapping Film with a Few Too Many Twists
Devils is director Kim Jae-hoon’s high concept, body swapping, ultra-violent, twist-upon-twist-y feature debut and it is a fun ride, but that may not be enough for some more discerning film fans. Buckets of blood and savage violence drench the film...
Fantasia 2023 Review: LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP, These Woods Have Promises To Keep
The ancient trees in Arvores National Park sway menacingly in Teresa Sutherland’s Lovely, Dark, and Deep, a story of grief, a search for redemption, and a past that won’t let go. Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) plays Lennon, a woman with a...
Fantasia 2023 Review: HIPPO, A Hilariously Disturbing Suburban Nightmare
An unusual family lives an unusual life in Mark H. Rapaport’s Hippo, one of the stranger films playing at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. Rapaport drops us into a suburban dystopic home where society’s rules don’t seem to apply, and...
Fantasia 2023 Review: BLACKOUT, Fessenden's Wolf Man Delivers
Indie horror icon Larry Fessenden is back in the director’s chair with Blackout, a film about the pain of addition and becoming something you don’t want to be. Having tackled vampires in 1995’s Habit and Frankenstein’s monster in 2019’s Depraved,...
Fantasia 2023 Review: BOOGER, A Quirky Exploration of Grief... With Hairballs
There is no one way to correctly grieve a loss. For some, the only way to pass through the hardest parts of this emotion is to throw themselves into work; for others, it’s impossible to move on without feeling each...
