Posts tagged Fantastic Fest 2023
Fantastic Fest invites you to learn The Altman Method!

So much has been written about ordinary people doing terrible things, which they justify for whatever reasons make them sleep at night.  Nazism is the biggest modern example of the banality of evil, but sometimes examining it on a small scale can be just as frightening as the larger picture.  Nadav Aronowicz’s “The Altman Method” is an Israeli thriller that takes a microscopic look into one particular abyss.

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FANTASTIC FEST 2023 - "MUSHROOMS"

This year, a ghastly selection of our staff have been invited to participate in a series of virtual screenings premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. This year’s selection of films ranges from the darkly comic to the dreadfully dire and all things fantastic in between. Check out the review below for Mushrooms!

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FANTASTIC FEST 2023 - "YOU'RE NOT ME"

This year, a ghastly selection of our staff have been invited to participate in a series of virtual screenings premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. This year’s selection of films ranges from the darkly comic to the dreadfully dire and all things fantastic in between. Check out the review below for You’re Not Me!

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Fantastic Fest Warns 'There’s Something in the Barn!'

Several horror subgenres are at work in “There’s Something in the Barn.”  Dumb Americans in a foreign country getting in over their heads, kids befriending creatures that reveal themselves to be malevolent, Christmas horror, horror comedy fu, home invasion fu…sorry to become Joe Bob there for a second, but it goes to show this film is drenched in the drive-in spirit.  And blood.  A good amount of blood.

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Fantastic Fest invites you through the "DOOR"!

The reasons for the inclusion of older films into a film festival’s lineup is always cause for reexamination.  Fantastic Fest is typically a platform for newer movies to find an audience (and a home), so why show films from several decades ago?  Is it an anniversary?  Did one of the filmmakers pass away?  Director Banmei Takahashi is still alive and his1988 japanese thriller “Door” is as current as ever.

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FANTASTIC FEST 2023 - "A GUIDE TO BECOMING AN ELM TREE" IS A SOMBER AND SLOW-BURN TAKE ON HORROR

This year, a ghastly selection of our staff have been invited to participate in a series of virtual screenings premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. This year’s selection of films ranges from the darkly comic to the dreadfully dire and all things fantastic in between. Check out the review below for A Guide To Becoming An Elm Tree!

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FANTASTIC FEST 2023 - "FISHMONGER" MARRIES HORROR, COMEDY, AND TENTACLE SEX IN HILARIOUS MATRIMONY

 This year, a ghastly selection of our staff have been invited to participate in a series of virtual screenings premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. This year’s selection of films ranges from the darkly comic to the dreadfully dire and all things fantastic in between. Check out the review below for Fishmonger!

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FANTASTIC FEST 2023 - "TRANSITION" IS AN INCLUSIVE TAKE ON THE HOME INVASION STORY

This year, a ghastly selection of our staff have been invited to participate in a series of virtual screenings premiering at FANTASTIC FEST in AUSTIN, TX. This year’s selection of films ranges from the darkly comic to the dreadfully dire and all things fantastic in between. Check out the review below for TRANSITION (TRANSICIÓN)!

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Be careful around The Coffee Table at Fantastic Fest!

If Todd Solondz met Garpar Noé at a party neither one of them wanted to go to, “The Coffee Table” would be the film they’d conceive while smoking a joint on the back porch. Directed by Caye Casas from a script he co-wrote with Cristina Borobia, this entry into this year’s Fantastic Fest will certainly not be for everyone, but it will find you where you live.

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Heather Graham is a different kind of host in the new Red Band trailer for SUITABLE FLESH!

From RLJE Films, Joe Lynch is back with his latest film, the ooey-gooey H.P. Lovecraft adaptation “Suitable Flesh!”  Playing in this year’s Fantastic Fest, “Suitable Flesh” has a new trailer which sheds more light (and skin) on the shapeshifting plot.  You can catch it in theaters and on VOD next month!

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