Tag: Fantasia International Film Festival
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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,”…
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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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On the poster for Chainsaws Were Singing, a blood-covered smiling face appears sideways next to a chainsaw made up of musical notes above the phrase “Texas Chainsaw meets Monty Python…and Les Misérables.” It’s quite the statement, speaking to a wide array of eclectic tastes. The combination of these very different genres is the reason Fantasia…
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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,…
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It’s always fun to be surprised by the return of characters you’d never thought you’d see again. While Hollywood hits are almost intrinsically positioned for sequels, indie films rarely have opportunities to follow up on what their protagonists have been up to. When I first saw the trailer for Vulcanizadora, I had no idea what Buzzard was…