Fright Years‘ “Dye Star” wades through the chest-deep water until arriving at the person they truly are. It glistens underneath a sharply rock edge that pulverizes the listener awake. We[...]
Writer/director Salvador Medina crafts a somber meditation on human relationships with his new feature film, Together Till the End. Billed as a zombie film, the story blossoms from an apocalyptic[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Gregg Bishop’s The Heretiks mixes the camp of Hocus Pocus with the sinister bite of The Witch. Accomplished screenwriting team Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (2022’s[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Cody Calahan’s Death of a Yellow Bird strikes the perfect balance between horror and emotion. The film nimbly zeroes in on the end-of-life experience—the regrets that[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Rocko Zevenbergen’s Flapjax delivers all the goopy goodness you could possibly want (think: Society meets The Fly), but the humor goes absolutely nowhere. In fact, the[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Jorge Thielen Armand’s Death Has No Master turns the vintage ’70s style and filmmaking up to 100. But the stunningly grainy and intoxicating visual veneer does[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Nick Simon’s What Happened to Doris? shatters the real-life paranormal case of Doris Bither, who claimed an unseen entity raped her. In style and visual aesthetic,[...]
The days, hours, minutes, and seconds leading up to a mental health break flush with varied emotions. There’s recklessness, sorrow, anger, and pure chaos. HAFFWAY mixes them all together and[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, James Cullen Bressack’s found footage film I Have Proof sluggishly meanders for most of its lean 77-minute runtime. The writer/director uses magnetizing guerrilla filmmaking to create[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Quarxx’s The Ones Who Grieve makes Eden Lake look like child’s play. It’s a relentlessly dismal unraveling of extremist religion and inevitable violence against women. While[...]
The U.S. shifted on its axis when MAGA stormed the Capitol in January 2021. The world seemed to change so drastically after that day. Gravel-voiced troubadour Kaz Murphy funnels a[...]
“Who am I when no one’s around?” asks Catie Turner in her new song. “Who Am I” combs the content rat race of modern digital life. There’s a pressure to[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Agata Trzebuchowska’s Sick breaks thorns into the skin with its coming-of-age tale about shame and blossoming sexuality. The writer/director unwittingly pulls stylistic threads from Ingmar Bergman’s[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, Yerkezhan Baizhan’s Ürei makes for one of the festival’s most depressing viewing experiences. It is deeply upsetting in tone and performance, mining themes of memory, regret,[...]
Out of Fantastic Fest, John Veron’s Godmother haunts the hallways of The House of the Devil before taking a room at Motel Hell. It’s wonderfully absurd, delightfully unhinged, and a[...]
