Fantasia Film Festival
Undergods’ Dark Dystopia Is Hauntingly Human [Fantasia Review]
Chino Moya’s Undergods was one of the premieres at Fantasia Fest 2020, and from the very first frame, the film is visually stunning. Slate grey fog rolls over the crumbling remains of a large ci...
For The Sake Of Vicious Is A Fast Paced Halloween Home Invasion [Fantasia Review]
For The Sake Of Vicious sets its tone from the opening scene, with a masked man wielding a machete in a dingy building full of meat hooks and filthy tarps, an unconscious victim lying at his feet. Pre...
Hunted is an Impressively Nasty Piece of Work [Fantasia Review]
The premise of Hunted is one we’ve seen countless times before; a woman goes to a bar, meets a man who seems nice, and, before she knows it, finds herself abducted and speeding towards certain ...
Monster Seafood Wars is a Delightfully Goofy Throwback [Fantasia Review]
With a title like Monster Seafood Wars, you pretty much know what you’re in for. And yet, prolific director Minoru Kawasaki’s movie, the script for which he co-wrote with regular collabo...
Who the Heck is Hail to the Deadites For? [Fantasia Review]
Over the past few years, there’s been an unfortunate influx in fan documentaries. By this, I don’t mean fan made films, but rather films about fans. It’s unfortunate because there...
Special Actors is a Worthy Successor to One Cut of the Dead [Fantasia Review]
One Cut of the Dead is a tough act to follow. Shin’ichirô Ueda’s lively, gory, and super-meta take on zombie movies and the perils of low budget filmmaking was a massive hit not just...
A Mermaid In Paris Is A Bittersweet Siren Song [Fantasia Review]
A Mermaid In Paris, is a multimedia project from writer/director Mathias Malzieu (Jack And The Cuckoo Clock Heart, lead singer of the band Dionysos). In addition to the feature film currently screenin...
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is Mildly Entertaining [Fantasia Review]
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is set in a devout religious community that, similar to The Village, exists without modern conveniences in spite of the fact it’s actually the early ...
The Undertaker’s Home is Chillingly Effective [Fantasia Review]
Argentinian horror is enjoying a bit of a moment, with Terrified scaring the pants off Shudder audiences and The Bar making them laugh and scream in equal measure while, just a few years ago, the live...