Tag: Fantaspoa 2026

Throw out all expectations when you head into Kyle Mangione-Smith’s Compliance. It’s so intense and chaotic, it makes the 2012 film of the same name look like child’s play. It’s eerie that the screenlife film hit Fantaspoa at this moment in time, so soon after the Epstein Files and Luigi Mangione’s shooting of a healthcare…

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Horror has a very long history of exploring Biblical and other religious texts. The genre often positions faith as monstrous or the root cause of humanity’s downfall. The First Omen, Mother!, The Exorcist, and The Lodge are just a few examples, but these themes run deep. With Armageddon Road, playing this year’s Fantaspoa, writer/director Karen…

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Folk Horror can elicit terrible tremors of pure fear, unlike most other genres. Luke Jaden’s Animals of the Land, playing this year’s Fantaspoa, claws at the eyeballs. The writer/director needles to the very root of humanity, where a sick hunger for power lies in all its perverted glory. There’s something to be said about that…

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