Fantastic Fest 2024

How ‘Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire’ Tests the True Crime Safety Blanket [Interview]

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Directed & written by Stuart Ortiz (Grave Encounters 1 & 2, Extraterrestrial), Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire uses the true crime documentary format to unleash grim horror.  Framed entirely as a grisly true crime documentary, Strange Harvest tracks two detectives’ pursuit of a grisly serial killer’s murder spree across San Bernardino County. Peter Zizzo and […]

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“The Creep Tapes” Review – Peachfuzz Is Back and Weirder Than Ever in New TV Series

Meagan Navarro Creep, Fantastic Fest 2024, Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Reviews, The Creep Tapes, TV

Creep and its sequel, Creep 2, introduced an offbeat, darkly funny and deeply weird serial killer who preyed upon videographers, documenting the awkward social dance leading up to their unwitting murder. Co-writer/Director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass created a memorable new horror villain, one that initially disarmed with boyish charms before ramping up the […]

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‘The Severed Sun’ Review – Folk Horror Tale Offers Timeless Message [FF 2024]

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Evil comes in many forms. In horror films, it’s often in the form of an inhuman creature or supernatural entity. With folk horror films, however, evil is often personified in people and their actions, seeing the sub-genre interrogate the dark nature of mankind. In The Severed Sun, writer/director Dean Puckett‘s feature debut, a creature may […]

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‘MadS’ Review – A Single-Take Outbreak Horror Movie from the Director of 2006’s ‘Them’

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Director David Moreau knows a thing or two about helming intense horror set over the course of a single evening; the filmmaker previously unnerved with the 2006 home invasion horror Ils (Them). His latest, MadS, takes it a step further with an energetic horror movie presented as a single continuous take tracking a night that […]

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‘Mr. Crocket’ Review – Impressive Effects Can’t Save a Pedestrian Script [FF 2024]

Trace Thurman Brandon Espy, Fantastic Fest 2024, Huluween, Mr. Crocket, Reviews

1980s nostalgia is out and 1990s nostalgia is in, with the horror genre doling out films like I Saw the TV Glow (review) and now Mr. Crocket, an adaptation of Brandon Espy’s 2022 short of the same name (itself a part of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series). Espy’s feature debut sadly sees the filmmaker struggling to find inspiration, […]

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‘Daddy’s Head’ Review – An Ultra Creepy, Enigmatic Creature Feature [FF 2024]

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Filmmaker Benjamin Barfoot brings the creep factor in Daddy’s Head, an eerie creature feature centered on grief. Set in the immediacy of a sudden, tragic loss, Barfoot’s sophomore feature initially appears to be yet another monster metaphor that draws clear parallels to The Babadook. Luckily, Daddy’s Head forgoes the obvious metaphor for a gnarlier, oblique […]

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‘Little Bites’ Review – This Monster Metaphor Needs a Tighter Edit [FF 2024]

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Monsters as metaphors are nothing new to the world of fiction, allowing creators to find novel ways to explore the unknown through horror tropes. The genre has seen a surplus of films using this device in the 10 years since Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was released to critical and commercial success, and we can now add […]

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‘House of Spoils’ Review – A Witchy Culinary Tale That’s Light on Scares [FF 2024]

Meagan Navarro Ariana DeBose, Fantastic Fest 2024, House of Spoils, Reviews

The latest collaboration between Blumhouse and Amazon, House of Spoils, explores the high stress restaurant environment with a witchy twist. Writer/Directors Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy (Blow the Man Down) deliver a culinary visual feast when it comes to the food and the inner workings of the kitchen, one that happens to be a […]

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‘Bone Lake’ Review – Erotic Thriller Goes for the Jugular [FF 2024]

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Erotic thrillers are a bit of a lost art, enjoying a Golden Age in the ’80s before tapering off in the mid-’90s around the time the genre was parodied in 1993’s Fatal Instinct. By the 2000s, notable entries in the the genre had all but disappeared thanks to its success on the direct-to-video market and […]

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‘Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire’ Review – A Grim Faux True Crime Documentary

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Writer/Director Stuart Ortiz, one half of the filmmaking duo known as The Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters, Extraterrestrial), is no stranger to blurring fact and fiction. The filmmaker used a reality TV show to send a film crew to their doom in the 2011 found footage gem Grave Encounters. Ortiz’s latest, Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, […]

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‘Get Away’ Review – Horror Comedy Culture Clash Offers Amusing Thrills [FF 2024]

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Nick Frost is no stranger to horror comedies, having starred in such modern classics as Shaun of the Dead and Attack the Block. This year, the actor has already starred in Krazy House (review), and now he is reuniting with that film’s director Steffen Haars in Get Away, a frequently amusing folk horror comedy that relishes in bloodshed […]

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‘Don’t Mess With Grandma’ Review – Home Invasion Goes Awry in Violent Comedy [FF 2024]

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Home invasion films are a dime a dozen nowadays, with this year alone seeing the wide releases of The Strangers: Chapter One and Abigail. But surplus can often breed creativity, with filmmakers forced to seek innovative ways to make their films stand out from the pack. That’s just what Jason Krawczyk (He Never Died) does with Don’t […]

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‘Apartment 7A’ Review – Bland Prequel Retreads ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Too Faithfully [FF 2024]

Meagan Navarro Apartment 7A, Fantastic Fest 2024, Natalie Erika James, Reviews

It’s been a year of horror prequels, with The First Omen and A Quiet Place: Day One renewing faith in the prequel’s ability to find unexpected, poignant story threads still left to explore, especially with talented voices driving them. That Apartment 7A, the prequel to Rosemary’s Baby, stacks the talent in front of and the […]

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“The Most Disgusting, Gory, Vile Thing I’ve Ever Seen” – First ‘Terrifier 3’ Reactions Out of Fantastic Fest!

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Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest last night, leaving viewers in shock and awe. The first reactions promise sickening gore, laude the performances by David Howard Thornton and Lauren LaVera, praise Damien Leone’s direction, and tease Art the Clown’s expanded lore. “Terrifier 3 just might be the goriest movie to […]

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‘Mr. Crocket’ Trailer Introduces Demonic Children’s Show Host in Huluween Horror Movie

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A seemingly sweet children’s show host turns demonic in Mr. Crocket, an upcoming horror movie set to debut this Huluween season. A brand new trailer unveiled today gives a peak at the ’90s set horror movie, complete with an in-world TV show opening credit sequence. The original horror film premieres on Hulu on October 11, […]

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