Fantasia 2018: Hurt Is Blumhouse’s Latest, Spookiest, Most Uneven Scare-Fest
Blumhouse’s latest thriller is tense and deceptively clever, but undoes its thrills with no shortage of irritating fakeouts. Trauma appears to be the monster in […]
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Fantasia 2018: The Witch in the Window Scares Without a Drop of Blood
Andy Milton’s atmospheric haunted house film is inscrutably scary and beautifully lit, balancing bone-chilling existential horror with compelling domestic drama. Here it is, 2018’s version […]
Unfriended: Dark Web Elevates Its Premise to Scarier Screen-Based Dimensions
The web-footage sequel to the first Unfriended sees the series move in more believably conventional directions, eschewing supernatural scares for more haunting domestic terrors. We […]
Fantasia 2018: Lifechanger is a Bleak & Eerie Story About Identity & Never Letting Go
Justin McConnell’s lean, fascinating horror-drama blends an intriguing structure with some novel investigation into the psychology of its shape-shifting horror monster. There’s stalking, and then […]
Fantasia 2018: Lifechanger’s Justin McConnell on Shape-Shifting, Memory and Toxicity
The writer/director of Fantasia-debuting horror film Lifechanger talks about the origins of the project and getting into the mind of his film’s main monster. Writer/director […]
Fantasia 2018: Blue My Mind Is a Different Kind of Mermaid Story
Lisa Brühlmann’s Swiss coming-of-age mermaid tale is admirably shot and performed, but inadvertently hews too closely to similar teen-horror dramas of recent years. It’s almost […]
Fantasia 2018: Satan’s Slave Review – Ghosts, Zombies and Sex Cults, OH MY!
A loose remake/prequel to the 1980 film of the same name, Satan’s Slave is a chilling story of how the sins of our parents haunt […]
Fantasia 2018: Mikhail Red Explores Violence, Morality and Family in Neomanila
Superbly acted and beautifully shot, Neomanila is a morally ambiguous tale about what we do to survive and crimes we commit for the ones we […]
Fantasia 2018: Hanagatami Review – The Director of Hausu Confuses and Delights in His Final Epic
Hausu’s Nobuhiko Obayashi starts wrapping up his 60-year career in filmmaking with a deeply weird, compellingly stream-of-consciousness wartime drama. Nobuhiko Obayashi is one of Japan’s […]