Fantasia Film Festival
The Haunted House in Martyrs Lane is Empty [Fantasia 2021 Review]
With a title like Martyrs Lane, you might be expecting something relentlessly gory, but Ruth Platt’s third feature doesn’t actually take place in the eponymous spot. Rather, it’s key to unlocking the ...
#Blue_Whale is Internet Horror Lite [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Internet horror continues to be big business, but for every Unfriended or The Den, there’s a Friend Request. Russian offering #Blue_Whale lands somewhere in between the two. Not convincingly creepy en...
Midnight is Next-Level Horror [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Deaf protagonists are a curiously untapped market in horror. The best example of their use is arguably in Mike Flanagan’s Hush, which sees a masked killer descend upon a home occupied by a deaf woman ...
Frank and Zed is a Gloriously Gory Puppet Show [Fantasia 2021 Review]
There’s a recurring mini challenge on Ru Paul’s Drag Race in which the queens are tasked with making puppets of each other and then using them in a performance, typically while making inflammatory, an...
Tin Can is a Phantasmagorical Treat for the Senses [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Claustrophobia is something most people struggle with, even if they don’t really think they do – nobody is comfortable being trapped in a small space for hours on end. Suffering through a global pande...
Kratt is a Devilishly Dark Delight [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Earlier this year, the brilliant Psycho Goreman gifted a couple of bratty kids their very own monster to play with and cart around town to do their bidding. Kratt could almost be considered the Estoni...
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Most time travel movies get bogged down trying to over-explain themselves, but Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes sidesteps that issue by making its setup so intensely complicated it’s stupid even attemp...
Anything for Jackson is Pure Nightmare Fuel [Fantasia Review]
It’s been a while since an elderly couple were the villains in a horror movie. The Visit was five years ago, if you can believe it (funnily enough, it sucks even more now than it did back then but tha...
Sheep Without a Shepherd Takes a Hammer to Social Injustice [Fantasia Review]
Sheep without a Shepherd is a movie that proudly wears its many influences on its sleeve, beginning with a thrilling, Great Escape-aping opening sequence set at a prison internment camp that’s really ...
