FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Missing (2021)
After the loss of his wife, Satoshi has nearly lost everything, including his table tennis club. All he has left is his daughter Kaeda. He’s become absent-minded, becoming lost in a fog and even getting arrested for stealing in a grocery store. So when he tells Kaeda that he just saw a serial killer named […]
AMAZON PRIME EXCLUSIVE: My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)
Grady Hendrix is into the best stuff: karate movies, 70s horror paperbacks, Satan…this movie is based on his novel of the same name, telling the story of best friends Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) who have grown up together and are lamenting the fact that they will soon be living in separate states soon. […]
Jiang tou (1985)
In 1974, Shaw Brothers worked with Hammer to make The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. That ignited a desire to not only make martial arts films, but supernatural ones. And man, as the studio goes on, these movies grow more deranged in the very best of ways. Ho Meng-Hua (The Mighty Peking Man, Oily Maniac) directed […]
Xin xi you ji (1982)
New Pilgrims to the West is based on the Chinese 16th century book Journey to the West, which is about the legendary pilgrimage of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang. In spite of great danger, he traveled to the Central Asia to discover the Buddhist sacred texts. A combination of Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, Confucianism, Taoist and […]
Tales from the Darkside episode 17: Madness Room
Directed by John Hayes (the director of Dream No Evil, Grave of the Vampire and Jailbait Babysitter!) and written by Thomas Epperson, this episode of Tales from the Darkside has Edward Osborne (Stuart Whitman!) and his much younger wife Cathy (Therese Pare, who was the lead in Hayes’ previously mentioned Jailbait Babysitter) — along with employee and his […]
Di san lei da dou (1980)
Heaven and Hell has it all. Director Chang Cheh. Nearly all of the Venom Mob. Angels and humans falling in love. A battle between heaven and hell. The martial arts you demand and also the weirdness you hope is coming too as the Venoms escape a hell that looks like a combination of Hong Kong […]
Si Buta dari Gua Hantu (1985)
I watched Blind Warrior because the poster art is ripped off from The House by the Cemetery and that act of theft is perfect, because this is an Indonesian martial arts movie and that’s an Italian gore epic and that seems like worlds apart yet united. Based on the comic book by Ganes TH, this same story […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Short Fuse
The Fantastic Fest 2022 Shoft Fuse program promises “a monster roller coaster that takes you to not only the grotesquely sensual and painfully real, but also to the most surreal of other worlds.” There are nine movies to watch and you can see them for yourself when you buy a virtual badge here. Blood Rites (2022): […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Deep Fear (2022)
The night before Henry (Victor Meutelet) starts his mandatory military service, his friends Sonia (Sofia Lesaffre) and Max (Kassim Meesters) take him drinking and then into the catacombs of Paris, discovering tunnels that had been thoroughly destroyed during the Second World War. Chased by skinheads deep into the tunnels beneath the streets of the City of […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Nightsiren (2022)
Two decades after a tragedy with her sister, Šarlota — pronounced Charlotta — comes back to her remote mountain hometown in Slovakia to claim an inheritance left by her dead mother. Yet when she gets there, her mother’s house has burned to the ground. Staying in her former neighbor’s abandoned cabin — rumored to have […]
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