Raven Banner Entertainment to rep underground fighting flick BRAWLER

If you want a shot at rights to Chris Sivertson's underground fighting flick Brawler you'll have to step into the ring with the guys from Raven Banner Entertainment. Raven Banner gets in the ring with BRAWLER! Toronto, Canada - Raven Banner Entertainment... More »

By Andrew Mack

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 »

By Ben Umstead

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: 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: LOVE Review

What are human beings if not feedback organisms? We talk, we fight, we do both horrible and wonderful things to each other across the world on a daily basis we are a reflection of what others tells us as much... More »

By Kurt Halfyard

Fantasia 2011: THEATRE BIZARRE Review

The anthology film is a strange beast, something tough to pin down because the filmmakers assemble their parts separately, often with little knowledge of how the whole thing will come together. Then, disparate films rest side-by-side, inviting, nay,... More »

By Kurt Halfyard

Fantasia 2011: FRIEND OF FLIES (Short Film, Short Review)

How does a film go from Vincent to Citizen Kane in a mere 13 minutes and still have time detour at The Great Dictator and Dr. Strangelove? Vide Emil Gustafsson Ryderup's Friend of Flies. Worth mentioning that he does this... More »

By Kurt Halfyard

3 Clips From Vincent Lannoo's VAMPIRES

Vincent Lannoo's comedy Vampires made quite the impression on the FanTasia audience last year. And on the verge of the film being released by IFC Midnight we have been given three clips to share with you! They did it! They... More »

By Andrew Mack

Severin Films Horror Anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE Trailer Premiere

Severin Films all-star horror anthology, The Theatre Bizarre is set to premiere at Fantasia this year, and they've released the first official trailer. The Theatre Bizarre features segments directed by Douglas Buck, Tom Savini, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten,... More »

By J Hurtado

Fear The FRIEND OF FLIES!

Soon to screen at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, Emil Gustafsson Ryderup's Friend Of Flies presents a cautionary tale of why you shouldn't mock even the loneliest of little boys. Because there are always the flies.For want of friends, a... More »

By Todd Brown

Twitch Exclusive: Sneak Peek For Chad Archibald's NEVERlost

Beginning tonight at the Scotbank Theatre here in Toronto Canadian director Chad Archibald and an assortment of cast and crew from his thriller NEVERlost will be travelling around Ontario and making stops in Vancouver and Montreal in a sort of cinematic... More »

By Andrew Mack

The UNDERWATER LOVE Trailer Is Bubblegum Pop Perfection. With Breasts. And A Bit Of Moaning.

It is one of the strangest on-screen combinations in recent days. Shinji Imaoka - one of the acknowledged masters of 'pink' film, a subset of Japanese soft porn - recruited hugely acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle - frequent collaborator of Wong... More »

By Todd Brown

A SERBIAN FILM U.S. Release Details & Red Band Trailer

The most controversial movie of the last year is finally getting a US release. A Serbian Film was first shown at SXSW in March of 2010. Since then is has scarred audiences at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film... More »

By J Hurtado

However you spell it, 'Sell Out!' or '$Ell.0u7!' = win!

[Now that I have seen it I am so sorry that I missed seeing it with the audience at FanTasia. Crowd pleaser doesn't begin to cover it]Rafflesia (Jerrica Lai) hosts a television show for the FONY network which focuses on... More »

By Andrew Mack

David Hyde Pierce is 'The Perfect Host'

[Another catch up from this year's FanTasia film festival]A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. Career criminal John [Clayne Crawford] discovers the LAPD is in hot pursuit after... More »

By Andrew Mack

FanTasia2010: Phasma Ex Machina

[The festival may be over but I'll be doing some FanTasia follow up over the next few days. Catching up on films I missed prior to my visit to Montreal]Cody cannot get over the loss of his parents so he turns... More »

By Andrew Mack

Fantasia 2010: Canadian Survival Slasher IF A TREE FALLS In Trailer Form.

It's been a busy Fantasia for Chad Archibald and his Black Fawn Films. Not only is Archibald at the festival with his directorial effort Neverlost but he is also a producer on Philip Carrer's survival horror effort If A Tree... More »

By Todd Brown

FanTasia 2010: The Neighbor Zombie

You would think that in the relatively short time we have had the zombie genre that with the tremendous outpouring of projects we would have it covered. There couldn't possibly be anything else to add to the genre, right? With so many films... More »

By Andrew Mack

Fantasia 2010: Full Trailer For THE SHRINE Arrives.

Soon to have its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, the full trailer for Jon Knautz's follow up to Jack Brooks Monster Slayer has just arrived via Shock Til You Drop.The Shrine is a completely different film tonally... More »

By Todd Brown

Fantasia 2010: First Trailer For Chad Archibald's NEVERLOST

One of the goals of Montreal's Fantasia Festival is to support the rising generation of Canadian genre film makers, to seek out new talent that may be missed or overlooked by other events. And one of the big successes on... More »

By Todd Brown

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Destroy All Monsters: Retire Superman

While the internet is tearing itself apart in its efforts to empirically determine whether Man of Steel "sucks" or "is awesome" - because such things are now apparently possible, given Superman Returns' near-unilateral, and intellectually disturbing, dismissal - I'd like to pause to make a gentler request: may we please... More »

Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »