Blumhouse’s latest thriller is tense and deceptively clever, but undoes its thrills with no shortage of irritating fakeouts. […]
Category Archive: Fantasia 2018
Andy Milton’s atmospheric haunted house film is inscrutably scary and beautifully lit, balancing bone-chilling existential horror with compelling […]
The web-footage sequel to the first Unfriended sees the series move in more believably conventional directions, eschewing supernatural […]
Justin McConnell’s lean, fascinating horror-drama blends an intriguing structure with some novel investigation into the psychology of its […]
The writer/director of Fantasia-debuting horror film Lifechanger talks about the origins of the project and getting into the […]
Lisa Brühlmann’s Swiss coming-of-age mermaid tale is admirably shot and performed, but inadvertently hews too closely to similar […]
A loose remake/prequel to the 1980 film of the same name, Satan’s Slave is a chilling story of […]
Superbly acted and beautifully shot, Neomanila is a morally ambiguous tale about what we do to survive and […]
Hausu’s Nobuhiko Obayashi starts wrapping up his 60-year career in filmmaking with a deeply weird, compellingly stream-of-consciousness wartime […]
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood If you want festivals full of soulful contemplation of the human […]