Tag: Fantasia
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As a horror lover and reviewer, very little creeps up and surprises me. The ones that do often make the year-end lists. Reading about director Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity over the last few weeks as it was released in US theaters and seeing the photos of the film’s wooden doll, I wasn’t sure what to…
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As previously stated, I’m a sucker for animated films. Recently, I’ve been on a bit of an anime kick, mostly looking for underground titles in the horror space that I’ve never seen before. The Kizumonogatari trilogy has been popping onto my radar many times over the last eight years. However, it’s almost impossible for Westerners to…
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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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Animated films are a sweet spot for me. As I’m often writing about dark aspects of reality, relating horror films to the socio-political elements of our society, it’s good to hit the reset button every once in a while, if only momentarily shaking off the macabre for my own mental health. Of course, not every…
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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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If you’re a horror fan, you’ve probably heard something about Cuckoo by now. Maybe you’ve seen the trailer, read a review, or seen the bloody bandage spelling out the title wrapped around Hunter Schafer’s head on the poster. You know, something. Cuckoo is one of the big horror releases of the summer, continuing the tradition…
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About halfway through director Kourtney Roy’s Kryptic, a subtle pull of memory began to nag at me from my subconscious cinema. You know, that place in a cinephile’s brain where movies we love are stored, where scenes are resurrected and played back as if appearing on a screen before us. Something about the film strongly…
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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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Sitting on the sofa in the early morning Sunday hours some years ago, I scoured the depths of Netflix for something fun, a title that would satiate my appetite for the bizarre and unconventional. This is where I typically take on a foreign animated film, a dramatic indie sci-fi title, or an offbeat introspective horror…
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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,”…