Dario Argento’s latest film Dark Glasses finds the Master of Horror back on (somewhat) solid ground. While Dark Glasses has several classic Giallo elements, in reality, the Italian director has unexpectedly delivered a throwback to the “disabled woman in peril” subgenre that was popular back in the 80s and 90s. Dark Glasses begins in traditional Argento […]
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‘The Breach’ Review – A Lovecraftian and Vague House of Horrors [Fantasia]
Beginning with the stomach-churning body horror novel The Troop, author Craig Davidson quickly established himself as a horror author to watch under the pen name Nick Cutter. Adapting the boundary-pushing, gruesome, and often cosmic horror found on Cutter’s pages makes for a tricky and daunting task. Rue Morgue president Rodrigo Gudiño‘s second feature takes on Cutter’s latest, an Audible original […]
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‘Megalomaniac’ Review – Extreme Horror Makes for an Unsettling Conversation Starter [Fantasia]
The Butcher of Mons was a moniker given to a notorious serial killer in Mons, Belgium, who left bags of dismembered women along visible roadsides. As heinously and abruptly as these discoveries began, they ceased in 1997, and the Mons Butcher’s identity remains unknown today. Megalomaniac supposes the atrocious serial killer had offspring that carried […]
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‘House of Darkness’ Review – A Simple, Hilarious Dark Comedy
Neil LaBute films tend to have similar characteristics. The gifted playwright has a way with words, so his scripts are smart and snappy. He also has an interest in the way that men and women interact and how caustic the battle of the sexes can be. His films are often filled with unlikeable characters engaging […]
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‘Glorious’ Review – Single Location Genre-Bender Descends Into Cosmic Nightmare [Fantasia]
People often seek answers from God in times of strife and anguish. But what would happen if God physically answered? Perhaps the more pertinent question; which God heeded the call? Director Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious frames a single location genre-bender around these questions, creating a darkly comedic and bloody cosmic journey for a man trapped in a restroom. Wes […]
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‘The Harbinger’ Review – Combines Genre Nightmares With Real World Anxieties [Fantasia]
In the opening scene of Andy Mitton’s The Harbinger, a masked man enters a woman’s apartment to find her screaming and clawing at her arm so tightly that it’s dripping blood. He’s the landlord, and she’s having a nightmare of a predatory Plague Doctor. It’s standard horror stuff, but when the exhausted woman is awoken, […]
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[Trailer] ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ Review Calls the Indie “a Lo-Fi Gross-Out For Weirdos”
Worms… it’ll get you fucked up! It was announced ahead of the World Premiere at the ongoing Fantasia Film Festival that Cinedigm acquired Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service SCREAMBOX this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. Reviews […]
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‘Dark Nature’ Review – All-Female Wilderness Thriller Gets Lost in the Woods [Fantasia]
The logline for writer/director Berkley Brady’s directorial feature debut Dark Nature describes it as “the story of a therapy group that is forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.” That’s pretty apt, albeit with one small issue: the Canadian film – […]
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‘The Elderly’ Review – Cryptic Slow Burn Doesn’t Quite Reach a Fever Pitch [Fantasia]
There’s something wrong with senior citizens in The Elderly (Viejos). The record-breaking heat wave has them behaving eerily, and the temperature continues to rise. Filmmakers Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez, fresh off The Passenger, opt for slow simmering dread in an atmospheric examination of society’s alienation of the elderly. But the restraint and cryptic nature of the horror renders it […]
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Filmax Haunts ‘The Elderly’ in New Cannes Horror Title [Trailer]
Ahead of its World Premiere at the ongoing Fantasia Film Festival, Filmax (REC films) has released the first teaser trailer for Raul Cerezo & Fernando Gonzalez Gomez’s horror The Elderly. In the film, “An octogenarian named Manuel (Zorion Eguileor) falls into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparking a series of […]
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‘Final Cut’ Review – ‘One Cut of the Dead’ Remake Isn’t Original, but It Is Funny and Heartfelt [Fantasia]
Remakes of popular films are inevitable, particularly when a film with a unique high concept takes off. It’s hardly surprising, then, that a title like 2017’s One Cut of the Dead, Shin’ichirō Ueda’s horror comedy about a film crew making a horror flick that’s beset by zombies, is already receiving a remake. The original Japanese […]
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Cinedigm and SCREAMBOX Get ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ Ahead of Fantasia!
Cinedigm announced today the North American acquisition of the creepy-crawly creature feature All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service SCREAMBOX this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. An Official Selection of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival and set to […]
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Slash Opens the Gates to Hell in the Trailer for ‘The Breach’ [Fantasia]
Raven Banner Entertainment shares the trailer for The Breach, set to World Premiere at this month’s Fantasia Film Festival. Directed by Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh), The Breach tells the story of John Hawkins, counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of […]
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Images from Fantasia’s Final Wave of Titles – ‘Final Cut’, ‘Sadako XD’, ‘The Elderly’, ‘Bodies, Blodies, Bodies’, and More
The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 26th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14 – August 3, with its Frontières International Co-Production Market being held July 21 – 24. Screenings, panels and special events will be taking place at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional […]
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Fantasia Film Festival 2022 – Photos From Second Wave of Horror Films!
The Fantasia International Film Festival is heading back to theaters this year, celebrating its 26th edition with a dynamic in-person program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 14 through August 3, 2022. The full lineup of over 100 feature films and 200+ shorts will be announced in late June. In the meantime, the festival […]
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