FANTASTIC FEST 2026: Gimme Truth (2026)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2025: Dildo Heaven (2002)
Allow me to play this broken record again, but it’s astounding just how much the moviemaking of Doris Wishman, Bruno Mattei and Jess Franco line up. At the end of all of their careers, there they are, making movies way past their contemporaries, even if it’s shot on video now. As Bruno would make Zombies: The […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
Christopher Lee was a hero to me as a child. If you’ve read about his life, as all horror fans have, you’ll known that he was a soldier, spy, Nazi hunter and so much more before becoming an actor. What you may not know is how hard it was to get started, as he was […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Binary (2024)
Nisha (Inaya Zarakhel) has come from Pakistan to the Netherlands to work as an exotic dancer. She’s close to gender-affirming surgery and everyone around her remains confused as to how they should react to her. She also has demonic visions and worries that by having this surgery that she will unleash something horrible on the […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Witte Wieven (2024)
Witte wieven are the “white women” or “wise women” of Dutch Low Saxon origins. They were female herbalists healers who also could see the future. In this film by director Didier Konings and writer Marc S. Nollkaemper, Frieda (Anneke Sluiters) is judged when she is unable to produce a child with her husband Hikko (Len […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: The Severed Sun (2024)
Directed and written by Dean Puckett, The Severed Sun is based on his 2018 short The Sermon. A pastor (Toby Stephens) rules his isolated village, but when his daughter Magpie (Emma Appleton) finds herself trapped in an abusive marriage, she doesn’t turn to God. Instead, she murders the man and brings a woodland beast to her village that […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Ghost Killer (2024)
Fumika (Akari Takaishi, Baby Assassins) is haunted by the ghost of killing machine Hideo (Masanori Mimoto), who wants her help in getting revenge on the people who killed him. Simple concept, but incredible execution here. It’s made by the Baby Assassins trilogy team of director Kensuke Sonomura and writer Yugo Sakamoto, working on a tight budget but […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape (2023)
Kati Kelli was a YouTube personality as the form moved from people just posting anything to today’s world of content providers. In this collection of her movies, made by Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) and husband Jordan Whipple, we see the many faces that she put on online before dying in 2019 […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: The Spirit of Halloweentown (2024)
In 1998, the Disney Channel Original Movie Halloweentown was filmed in St. Helens, Oregon. Since then, it has seen 50,000 visitors every October, even 25 years later. Yet just like the town in the series of Disney films — Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge, Halloweentown High and Return to Halloweentown — the locals believe that there are real hauntings. […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: What Happened to Dorothy Bell? (2024)
Ozzie Gray (Asya Meadows) has been investigating her mental health and the reasons why when she remembers that her grandmother attacked her when she was just a child. This is all told in a found footage style that brings together video diaries, security camera footage, home movies, video chats with a therapist and more. Dorothy […]
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