Reviews
The Mortuary Collection Is A Frightfully Fun And Stylish Anthology [Fantasia Review]
Ryan Spindell’s The Mortuary Collection has had a long, strange journey to Fantasia Fest. His short The Babysitter Murders was well received on the festival circuit back in 2015, but due to spor...
Fried Barry Is An Alien Abduction Acid Test [Fantasia Review]
Fried Barry is based on the 2017 short film of the same name. South African director Ryan Kruger expanded the original short into his first full-length feature film effort, currently showing at Fantas...
Unearth Should Have Stayed Buried [Fantasia Review]
Unearth is a horror movie about fracking but it’s actually much drier than that description would suggest. The film, co-directed by John C. Lyons and Dorota Swies from a script credited to Lyon...
Sleep (AKA Schlaf) Will Definitely Keep You Up At Night [Fantasia Review]
As scary as sleep paralysis, intense nightmares, etc. are there are very few horror movies that actually deal with these conditions effectively; Sleep (or Schlaf, auf Deutsch) looks set to cha...
Woman of the Photographs Takes Time Developing its Dark Romance [Fantasia Review]
Woman Of The Photographs opens with a reflection in a shop window, a small photo studio in an unspecified Japanese city. Sai (Hideki Nagai), the owner and only photographer, steps out to clean the gla...
Zombie Comedy, Yummy Is Far From Delicious [Fantasia Review]
As many undead hordes as have shuffled across screens in the past two decades, Lars Damoiseaux’s Yummy is likely the only one created with the assistance of the VAF, a Flemish arts grant usually...
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula is Fun as Hell [Review]
What if John Wick fought zombies? That’s the question Yeon Sang-ho seems to be answering in Peninsula, the follow-up to his instant classic zombie flick Train to Busan. That film succeeded for ...
Fifteen Years Later, House of Wax Still Boasts Impressive Set Design and Great FX
House of Wax (2005) turns fifteen in April. So, what better time to take a look back at the oft-maligned slasher redux to determine if it deserves the hate that is so often thrown its way. For th...
The Columnist Is A Hot Take That Isn’t Spicy Enough [Fantasia Review]
The Columnist is one of the North American premiers at Fantasia Fest 2020, and with its timely take on the occupational hazards for female identified creatives on the Internet, particularly relatable ...