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Watch Fantastic Fest 2016 Short Film GIVERTAKER
Hot off its world premiere at Fantastic Fest just a couple weeks back, the good folks at Arcanum Pictures (who brought you the teen genre flicks Grow Up, Tony Phillips and My Sucky Teen Romance) are releasing their short film...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Wrap: Screen Anarchy's Massive Team Picks The Best
Goodness gracious Fantastic Fest has been over for nearly a week and we're all still recovering. But the show must go on and that begins by looking back on the amazing festival that was. You've seen this before, what...
Mondo - Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: Fabio Frizzi Scores THE BEYOND Live
Photo of Frizzi and band at the San Diego show by Emilie Black of EmyBPhoto. When it comes to horror --- specifically weird Italian horror --- Fabio Frizzi is a household name, nearly synonymous with the director of the films...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: SHIN GODZILLA, The Monster Reborn
Japanese studio Toho resurrects Godzilla (Gojira), its most famous monster, in a busy modern day drama beset by bureaucracy and marked by marvelous action sequences.
Fantastic Fest 2016: All The Awards
Fantastic Fest is all wrapped up and the Shiner hangover is just now setting in. That hangover may be a few days later than normal due to the lack of the customary boozy awards show, but we can now share...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD is the Right Kind of Twisted
Let's not beat around the bush. Home Alone was pretty obviously the inspiration for Chris Peckover's sophomore feature Safe Neighborhood. There's nothing wrong with that. We all know that both John Hughes and Chris Columbus are filmmakers well worth emulating....
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: THE VOID Is Fulci-Flavored Hell
The Void draws inspiration from a number of horror influences, including Hellraiser, The Beyond, H.P. Lovecraft, and Lucio Fulci. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest 2016 in Austin to a packed house, with producer Casey Walker and directors Jeremy Gillespie and...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: DOWN UNDER, Not a Land of Racial Wonder, But Maybe It Should Be
The day after massive race riots in Sydney, Australia some 10 years ago, two carloads of impassioned and perplexed characters are moved to respond, calling upon deeply felt emotions that surge out of their bodies like cascading waves. What could...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: DEAREST SISTER, In Touch With Inner Demons
With only her second film as director, Mattie Do takes a big step forward, both for herself as an artist and for Laos as a filmmaking community. Do broke ground with Chantaly, her debut as a filmmaker and also the...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: FAULTLESS, The Sting of a Woman
What do men know about women? According to Faultless (original title: Irréprochable), some women are beyond understanding. Directed by Sébastien Marnier, the film follows Constance (Marina Foïs) as she slinks back to her hometown in rural France after losing her...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: The Unbearable Lightness of TONI ERDMANN
Maren Ade's Palme d'Or nominated film works marvelously as both an awkward study of a father-daughter relationship and as an immersive look into the corporate politics of post-wall Europe.
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: THE YOUNG OFFENDERS Elevates a Comic Tale With Fresh Honesty
Rowdy, raucous, and rude, The Young Offenders is a blast of adolescence without angst, a juvenile movie that is surprisingly cheerful, even as its young heroes straddle the thin line between criminality and, well, not being a straight-up criminal. Conor...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: ZOOLOGY, How Natasha's Tail Set Her Free
Everyone hopes that they are special and unique in some way. Whether it's a subtle uniqueness that only presents itself in being exceptional within our own little circle, or the kind of superhuman abilities that we attribute to those who...
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: THE HIGH FRONTIER Tests the Borders of Tension
Baby, it's cold outside. The family at the heart of The High Frontier (original title: Na granicy) doesn't feel very warm toward each other, though. As the movie begins and a father and his two sons drive deeper and deeper...
SURPRISE! Fantastic Fest 2016 Drops Last Wave With SHIN GODZILLA, BUSTER'S MAL HEART, Debates & More
We certainly didn't see this one coming, but if anything, Fantastic Fest is known for sucker punches of awesomeness. Debates include fisticuffs over Tremors, Zack Synder, Rocky 4, and on whether superhero movies are ruining the industry. The new films...
Fantastic Fest 2016: Short Film Lineup Gets Bloody and Weird and Wild and More
Curated by Peter Kuplowsky, a festival programmer who has contributed to this site in the past, the 41 short films that will screen during the upcoming Fantastic Fest sound ... fantastic. It feels like cheating to use that word, but...
Fantastic Fest 2016: First Look at SCIENCE FICTION VOLUME ONE: THE OSIRIS CHILD
Australia's Shane Abbess is back with another ambitious science fiction project and we have our first look thanks to a bevy of images accompanying the film's Fantastic Fest 2016 announcement. Set in the future, in a time of interplanetary colonization,...
Fantastic Fest 2016: HEADSHOT, AGE OF SHADOWS, WESTWORLD, ASH vs. EVIL DEAD and So Much More Invade Austin in Final Wave!
Sweet mercy. The final wave of titles for this year's Fantastic Fest have been announced and there is so much to digest here that we are giving you fair warning. Load up on the Pepto before you go any further. ...
Fantastic Fest's Film Market First Wave & Special Guests Revealed!
Oh hey, so Fantastic Fest will be back next month to thrill, overfeed, and exhaust Austin --- and I mean that in the best possible way. This festival is one of my absolute favorites and I'm proud to be repping...
