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October 8, 2022

A Wrapup of Fantastic Fest 2022

Docs about comics legends and legendary pranksters collide with psychedelic brainworms and Blaxploitation cult classics.
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September 28, 2022

Fantastic Fest 2022: Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle is more microbudget bad-movie idiocy

James Nguyen hammers down the end of his bad-movie trilogy with a true stinker of birdemic proportions… and not in a fun way. (This review..
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October 13, 2021

Iké Boys mixes its sentai charms with a heaping helping of sincerity

Eric McEver’s scrappy ode to tokusatsu and kaiju pictures wears its heart on its magically-armored sleeve. I’m a proud member of the Power Rangers Generation,..
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October 11, 2019

Fantastic Fest: Christopher Winterbauer on Youth, Grief, and “Wyrm”

Wyrm writer/director Christopher Winterbauer sits down at Fantastic Fest to talk about the analog appeal of '80s kitsch and adapting shorts to features.
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September 25, 2019

Fantastic Fest: “We Summon The Darkness” Is A Devilish Horror Comedy

The '80s-set film about Satanists targeting music groupies is a delight of heavy metal horror comedy.
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September 24, 2019

Fantastic Fest: “In The Tall Grass” Is Lost And Going In Circles

The Vincenzo Natali adaptation of Stephen King's short story is a repetitive struggle.
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September 20, 2019

Fantastic Fest: Johannes Nyholm on Gender, Grief, and Puppetry in “Koko-Di Koko-Da”

As Fantastic Fest opens, we talk to Johannes Nyholm, the director of the darkly imaginative Koko-Di Koko-Da, about grief, trauma, and the bizarre.
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March 10, 2019

Knife + Heart Review: A Gay Porn Slasher for the Whole Family

Bloody and queer in equal measure, Knife + Heart is a searingly intriguing gay porn slasher from Yann Gonzalez about horror, love and allyship.