New Life review at Fantasia: A tense, breathless chase movie
In John Rosman’s genre-inf(l)ected chase movie, the future of humanity may depend on an ordinary woman turned fugitive.
Eight Eyes review at Fantasia: A heady love letter to 70s exploitation cinema
Austin Jennings’ feature debut tells a contemporary tale – with retrospective stylings – of American tourists entrapped in local ritual
What You Wish For review: A generous serving of social allegory | Fantasia
With this taut culinary thriller, Nicholas Tomnay serves up a darkly comic allegory of the moral iniquities of global economics.
T Blockers review at Fantasia: Monstrous metamovie explores trans experience
Alice Maio Mackay’s monstrous metamovie explores trans experience through alien parasitic invasion plotting.
River review at Fantasia 2023: Looping sci-fi adventure
In Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future.
The Sacrifice Game review at Fantasia: A whole world of diabolical desire
Jenn Wexler’s Seventies-set school invasion horror lets Manson-esque cultists and abandoned pupils raise some hell together
Raging Grace Review at Fantasia 2023: Creepy portrait of family and class divides
In Paris Zarcilla’s modern gothic feature debut, a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses.
Cinema What Keeps You Alive Fantasia 2018 first look review
What Keeps You Alive is a tense, dizzying exploration of emotional – and emotionless – betrayal, expressed in the language of genre
Cinema Fantasia Born Of Woman 2018 short film showcase round-up
Nine daring, shocking, funny and affecting visions make up the Born Of Woman short film strand from Fantasia 2018
Cinema Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Fantasia 2018 first look review
Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund’s Nazi puppet massacre is all at once absurd gorefest and serious political allegory of Trump’s America
Cinema Nightmare Cinema Fantasia 2018 first look review
Can the Masters of Horror summon new fears with their new horror anthology?
Cinema One Cut Of The Dead Fantasia 2018 first look review
Shin’ichirô Ueda’s single-take zombie film-within-a-film One Cut Of The Dead comes with its own madcap meta-movie making-of comedy
Cinema The Field Guide To Evil Fantasia 2018 first look review
Different revisions of global folklore explore the hidden recesses of the collective unconscious in The Field Guide To Evil
Cinema Bleach first look review Fantasia 2018: can the live-action movie live up to the manga?
Beloved manga and anime Bleach gets the live-action treatment
Cinema The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot Fantasia 2018 first look review
Sam Elliott is a lonesome hunter in the beautifully strange and surprisingly affecting The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
Cinema The Witch In The Window Fantasia 2018 first look review
This tale of a haunted house and a broken home is as ultimately moving as it is creepy
Cinema The Ranger Fantasia 2018 first look review
Jenn Wexler’s feature debut The Ranger is a throwback to the Eighties woodland slasher, with a feminist twist
Cinema Nightmare Cinema’s Mick Garris talks anthologies and elevated horror (Fantasia 2018)
We talk to genre legend Mick Garris about his new anthology horror Nightmare Cinema
Cinema Lifechanger Fantasia 2018 first look review
Lifechanger is all at once body-swapping, serial-killing thriller and tragic romance
Unfriended: Dark Web Fantasia 2018 first look review
Can the Unfriended sequel match the grisly desktop shocks of its predecessor?
