Author: JP Nunez
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If you ask a group of hardcore horror fans to recommend some fun zombie or vampire films, they probably won’t have much trouble rattling off a list a mile long. But if you ask them to name a few good Wendigo flicks, you’ll get little more than a bunch of blank stares. Sure, they might…
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When most hardcore horror fans think of Italian genre cinema, they probably call to mind famous gialli like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Blood and Black Lace, but if you dig a bit deeper, you’ll see that this amazing country has also given us some of the best witch movies of all time.…
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We’ve all seen films about hitmen before. Hell, just a few months ago, Netflix released a movie called Hit Man, and it proved to be a big success. These contract killers have been a cinematic mainstay for decades, so at first blush, it might not seem wise to make an entire anthology film about them.…
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Like most movie fans, I have a love/hate relationship with M. Night Shyamalan. He’s made some of the best genre films of the last few decades, but he’s also made some of the biggest stinkers of this millennium. You simply never know what you’re going to get with a new M. Night movie, so I…
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If you’ve been following our Fantasia coverage, you might know that House of Sayuri was one of my most anticipated films of the festival. It was directed by the man who made Noroi: The Curse, one of the best found-footage movies way too many people have never heard of, and that was enough to get…
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The Fantasia International Film Festival features a wide range of movies. If you look through this year’s slate, you’ll see horror films, action flicks, sci-fi mind-benders, and some super inventive fantasy movies, but when I was looking through the plot synopses, the one that struck me the most was the dystopian thriller The Tenants. It…
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There are a few ways to get me excited about a movie. Sometimes I love the genre, other times it’s the filmmakers involved, and still other times it’s the source material. But when I first heard about Steppenwolf, something else caught my eye. The Fantasia plot synopsis described this film as “a Kazakh Mad Max,”…
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When most people think about horror, the word “romance” doesn’t often come to mind, but if you’re a hardcore genre fan, you know better. Some of the best horror movies of this millennium are romances, like Spring, Let the Right One In, and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, so even though I’m not…
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I went into this year’s edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival with a list of movies I was dying to see, but if you know anything about how these events work, you know that we rarely get to see our most anticipated films first. We have to take what we can get when we…
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The line between horror and fantasy is fuzzy at best. The difference between these two genres is often a matter of emphasis and tone, so it should come as no surprise that I’m both a horror fanatic and a fantasy aficionado. I love everything from Ti West’s X trilogy to The Lord of the Rings,…