FANTASTIC FEST: Bloody Oranges (2021)
Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse has created a film that really has no limit of how low it will go. It has four stories that all take their own paths. An elderly couple has gone so far into debt that their home will soon be repossessed, so they enter a dance contest in the hopes of winning […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Alone With You (2021)
Co-writers and co-directors Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks have put together a claustrophobic story that stays nearly all in one apartment as Charlie (Bennett) attempts to get her two-story Brooklyn apartment ready for the return of her erstwhile lover Simone (Emma Myles). Something has happened between the two of them, but from the positivity on […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Barbarians (2021)
Charles Dorfman has produced plenty of movies as of late, including VFW, Satanic Panic, The Fanatic, Boys from County Hell and plenty more. Barbarians is the first film that he’s directed but it sure doesn’t seem like it. The concept is simple: our friends come together for a birthday celebration in a remote country home. Yet you know how […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Name Above Title (2020)
Known in Portugal as Um Fio de Baba Escarlate (A Scarlet Little Thread), this 59-minute film has no spoken dialogue and tells the story of a serial killer whose latest kill is interrupted when a woman throws herself off a balcony and lands next to him. As he embraces her, she whispers something to him and […]
FANTASTIC FESTIVAL: Luzifer (2021)
Johannes is a young man who has never left home and only knows his mother — a recovering addict — and the vet that cares for his eagle Arthur. Maria, the mother, has raised him on a life of hard work, isolation in the Austrian alps and service to God. All is well. That is, […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Let the Wrong One In (2021)
Matt’s older brother Deco turns up with a hangover one morning — like always — and when he’s let in, it turns out that he needs more than just some aspirin and sleep. His new fangs prove that he’s been attacked by the vampires that haunt Dublin, led by the ex-fiancee of Henry (Anthony Head, […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Eyes of Fire (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally covered this film on January 26, 2020 and returned for another look later that day. It’s been a film never released on DVD and a much sought-after release, but with the release of the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, Severin has put together a new 4K […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Glasshouse (2021)
You think the pandemic we’ve had has been strange? Well, in the world of Glasshouse, an airborne dementia known as The Shred has left humanity adrift with no memories left inside their brains, unable to even remember who they are. Meanwhile, a family has remained inside their airtight glasshouse until a stranger arrives who changes — and […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Baby Assassins (2021)
What do hired killers do on their days off? I’ve always wondered that and hey — here’s a film ready to fill in the gaps. Chisato and Mahiro are teenagers who pull of a double life worthy of Donna Wilkes or Betsy Russell, as they’re high school graduates with menial jobs by day and killing machines battling the yakuza by […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Knocking (2021)
After leaving a tragic accident — the film begins with our heroine embracing her girlfriend who runs into the water and is never seen again — and a stay at the mental hospital, Molly moves into a new apartment where a strange knocking keeps on getting louder and louder. No one else can hear it. […]
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