First Proper Trailer For Carl Tibbitts' RETREAT
Back in May we got a hold of a sizzle-reel (an industry promo) for Carl Tibbitt's claustrophobic thriller Retreat, ahead of its world premiere at Fantasia Fest. It held a lot of promise in terms of actorly gravitas, with Cillian... More »
  

ETRANGE 2011: REDLINE review
What makes Takeshi Koike's Redline a work of sheer, unalloyed genius is that when you get down to it, it's simply a daft science fiction cartoon about racing cars very, very fast. Seriously, the simple premise is less a compromise... More »
  

FANTASIA 2011: Interview With Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare

Back during the 13th edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, while researching Tod Browning's The Unknown (1927), I chanced upon Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare's provocative essay " 'Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart': Filmic Horror, Popular Religion and... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: Weinberg Reviews 26 Films
(Fantasia 2011 has now passed into the history books, and you can catch up on all our coverage -- by Todd Brown, Kurt Halfyard, Michael Guillen, Andrew Mack, and Peter K., with contributions from Justin Decloux and Brandon Tenold... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: MORITURIS Review
~Possible spoilers ahead~"Morituris", directed by Raffaele Picchio, will always be remembered as the first slasher film to cast a crew of gladiators to do its choppings.  The film starts off with a brilliant scene: a shabby 8mm depiction of a family... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Review
An eerie estate, ornately decorated stain-glass doors, spooky gothic murals and manuscripts, an overgrown and mysterious garden, a curious little girl and a host of magical fairies with a sweet tooth with children's teeth; dem's the stuff Guillermo del Toro's... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Denmark's CLOWN (KLOVN) Wins Fantasia
Montreal's massive Fantasia Festival has come to the end of another successful run with a surprising winner as the festival's top film. Ultra-lewd Danish comedy Clown (Klovn) has taken the jury selected Cheval Noir award for top film at the... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: Haunters Review
Deliriously mixing elements of Scanners and Unbreakable, with a comedic verve reminiscent of An American Werewolf in London, Kim Min-suk's Haunters is not just the best Korean genre film I have seen in years, it is a downright classic. A... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: To Those in Montreal We Implore you to go see MARIANNE
Although I reviewed the film a bit earlier, in the initial goings on at the Fantasia Film Festival, the Swedish horror-drama Marianne is getting its World Premiere today in Montreal at the J.A. de Sève Cinema.  If you are in town, you should... More »
  

FANTASIA 2011: EXLEY: Interview With Larry Kent

My first exposure to Canadian filmmaker Larry Kent was in Fantasia's tribute reel to the maverick producing team of John Dunning and André Link, co-founders of Québec's legendary Cinépix production company. That reel affords the opportunity to see Larry Kent... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: Watch The Trailer For UK Horror HOLLOW
Having its world premiere today as part off the Fantasia Festival in Montreal is Michael Axelgaard's new found footage horror film Hollow. Boasting unusually strong performances and characters - to say nothing at all of the unusual, leafy nature of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: STAKE LAND Review
[With Jim Mickle's gloriously mounted Post-Apocalyptic Vampire Western landing in Montreal this weekend, and on DVD next Tuesday, it is time to revisit one of several of our reviews from the archives.  Todd called it the North American Horror film... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: SINT Review
(Review by Justin Decloux)Director Dick Mass (The Lift) delivers technically impressive supernatural holiday slasher (Now that's a sub-genre!) that features an iteration of a jolly red fellow that would rather slice your head off then hand over presents. Legend has it... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Review
[With the surreal science fiction about to melt some minds at Fantasia, we revisit Ben Umstead's review]Ethereal and Transgressive (Capitals E & T being very important), Beyond The Black Rainbow and its director, Panos Cosmatos, largely live up to their... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: LAPLAND ODYSSEY Review
[Our thanks to Brandon Tenold for the following review.]With Lapland Odyssey director Dome Karukoski makes an admirable attempt to offer up a Finnish take on the vaunted road trip comedy genre, and for the most part he succeeds, with almost... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: KILL ME PLEASE Review
(Review by Justin Decloux)Black humor is a tricky proposition to pull off correctly. It demands the audience to wallow in the misery of others. Not only that, but it expects them to find the suffering to be funny. Can you... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: Trailer For Chris Sivertson's BRAWLER
Director Chris Sivertson is something of a walking contradiction. He emerged on the scene with his 2005 adaptation of Jack Ketchum's The Lost, a dark indie that won Sivertson much love in the genre scene. He then that up with... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE Review
[After a very successful run on the festival circuit, this micro-indie gem makes its way to J.A. De Seve Theatre at Fantasia tonite, and I heartily encourage anyone out there who happens to be in town to give this one... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: Ti West's The Innkeepers
[Review by Justin Decloux]"THIS WILL BE THE MOST TERRIFYING FILM YOU'LL SEE ALL YEAR!" screamed the man introducing THE INKEEPERS to the Monday night FANTASIA crowd. It was a big promise - one that I was ready to take with... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART Review
[With the latest Johnnie To - Wai Ka-Fai collaboration to play at Fantasia today, we revisit James Marsh's review.]Don't Go Breaking My Heart tells the story of Zixin (Gao Yuanyuan), a sweet-natured but heartbroken office girl who falls for a... More »
  
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