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Category Archive: Fantasia 2018

Fantasia 2018: Hurt Is Blumhouse’s Latest, Spookiest, Most Uneven Scare-Fest

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Blumhouse’s latest thriller is tense and deceptively clever, but undoes its thrills with no shortage of irritating fakeouts. […]

Gena Radcliffe Posted on July 26, 2018January 26, 2019

Fantasia 2018: The Witch in the Window Scares Without a Drop of Blood

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Andy Milton’s atmospheric haunted house film is inscrutably scary and beautifully lit, balancing bone-chilling existential horror with compelling […]

Gena Radcliffe Posted on July 23, 2018July 30, 2020

Unfriended: Dark Web Elevates Its Premise to Scarier Screen-Based Dimensions

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The web-footage sequel to the first Unfriended sees the series move in more believably conventional directions, eschewing supernatural […]

Jon Espino Posted on July 21, 2018July 30, 2020

Fantasia 2018: Lifechanger is a Bleak & Eerie Story About Identity & Never Letting Go

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Justin McConnell’s lean, fascinating horror-drama blends an intriguing structure with some novel investigation into the psychology of its […]

Gena Radcliffe Posted on July 20, 2018July 30, 2020

Fantasia 2018: Lifechanger’s Justin McConnell on Shape-Shifting, Memory and Toxicity

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The writer/director of Fantasia-debuting horror film Lifechanger talks about the origins of the project and getting into the […]

Clint Worthington Posted on July 20, 2018July 30, 2020

Fantasia 2018: Blue My Mind Is a Different Kind of Mermaid Story

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Lisa Brühlmann’s Swiss coming-of-age mermaid tale is admirably shot and performed, but inadvertently hews too closely to similar […]

Clint Worthington Posted on July 19, 2018July 30, 2020

Fantasia 2018: Satan’s Slave Review – Ghosts, Zombies and Sex Cults, OH MY!

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A loose remake/prequel to the 1980 film of the same name, Satan’s Slave is a chilling story of […]

Theo Estes Posted on July 17, 2018July 30, 2020

Fantasia 2018: Mikhail Red Explores Violence, Morality and Family in Neomanila

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Superbly acted and beautifully shot, Neomanila is a morally ambiguous tale about what we do to survive and […]

Theo Estes Posted on July 17, 2018January 26, 2019

Fantasia 2018: Hanagatami Review – The Director of Hausu Confuses and Delights in His Final Epic

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Hausu’s Nobuhiko Obayashi starts wrapping up his 60-year career in filmmaking with a deeply weird, compellingly stream-of-consciousness wartime […]

Clint Worthington Posted on July 14, 2018July 30, 2020

Four Crazy Horror Flicks We Want to See at Fantasia

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This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood If you want festivals full of soulful contemplation of the human […]

Clint Worthington Posted on July 8, 2018January 26, 2019
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