FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Shorts
Here are the short films that I watched at this year’s Fantastic Fest. A Fermenting Woman (2024): Visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau (Sook-Yin Lee) is about to be let go from the restaurant that she has given her life to. However, she has an idea to save things, as she begins to ferment […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: AJ Goes to the Dog Park (2024)
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 […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: The Draft! (2023)
Directed by Yusron Fuadi, this Indonesian horror-comedy is very Cabin In the Woods as it begins. Five archetypes — the jock, the nerd, the rich person, the pretty one and the popular kid — all head off to a cabin where they’re warned away but stay anyways. We’ve seen it all before — from 1978-1981 we […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Chainsaws Were Singing (2024)
You don’t have to go to Texas for a singing and dancing chainsaw massacre. According to the official site, Chainsaws Are Singing was shot guerilla style in 2013, then spent a decade in post-production. Estonian filmmakers Sander Maran and Karl-Joosep Ilve describe their film as “Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets… Les Misérables?” Somehow, […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Body Odyssey (2023)
Mona (real-life bodybuilder Jacqueline “Jay” Fuchs, once listed as one of the “ten best female bodybuilders in the world”and who was Rosi in Mad Heidi) is fortysomething bodybuilder whose entire life is spent sculpting her body, which means not living or eating like other human beings as she creates a body that holds up to […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2023: Spooktacular! (2023)
Fantastic Fest 2023 was from September 21 to 28 and has so many movies that I can’t wait to see. You can learn more about this movie and when it is played here. Once upon a long time ago — well, the 90s — there was a little horror theme park, built in the middle […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2023: The Wait (2023)
Fantastic Fest 2023 was from September 21 to 28 and has so many movies that I can’t wait to see. You can learn more about this movie and when it is played here. Eladio (Víctor Clavijo) watches over the hunting grounds of the estate of Don Francisco (Pedro Casablanc) and has divided them into ten […]
Fantastic Fest 2023 recap
I’m always sad when Fantastic Fest is over. Every year, it feels like a blur of trying to watch as many movies as quickly and thoroughly as possible. I wish, as I always do, that time could stand still. I am always so appreciative that I am invited to participate. Here’s a list of what […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2023: The Altman Method (2022)
Fantastic Fest 2023 was from September 21 to 28 and has so many movies that I can’t wait to see. You can learn more about this movie and when it is played here. Noa Altman (Maayan Weinstock) is an actress who has been forgotten due to her age. Every day is a new argument with […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2023: The Coffee Table (2022)
Fantastic Fest 2023 was from September 21 to 28 and has so many movies that I can’t wait to see. You can learn more about this movie and when it is played here. Maria (Estefanía de los Santos) and Jesús (David Pareja) have just had a baby. He’s tired of her being the only one […]
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