{"id":104151,"date":"2018-07-30T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=104151"},"modified":"2018-07-30T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:51:26","slug":"nightmare-cinema-fantasia-2018-first-look-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/nightmare-cinema-fantasia-2018-first-look-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare Cinema Fantasia 2018 first look review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At its best, the horror anthology serves as a delicious amuse-bouche of scares. Ideally, the spread will feature complementary flavours and textures but in life, you rarely get exactly what you want. Mick Garris\u2019 new horror anthology, <strong><em>Nightmare Cinema<\/em><\/strong>, is frankly a mix of good and bad. Featuring five filmmakers and six short films,<strong><em> Nightmare Cinema <\/em><\/strong>is an international anthology of fears from Alejandro Brugu\u00e9s (<strong><em>Juan Of The Dead<\/em><\/strong>), the great Joe Dante, Ry\u00fbhei Kitamura (<strong><em>Versus<\/em><\/strong>), David Slade (<strong><em>30 Days Of Night)<\/em><\/strong> and Garris himself.<\/p>\n<p>The anthology opens with the best short of the bunch, a slasher horror comedy by relative newcomer Brugu\u00e9s. The only short to truly capture the spirit of the anthology (the wrap-around has characters wandering into the cinema), we jump into the short as if we are walking into the final act of a film. Brightly coloured and bonkers crazy, it takes slasher cliches in unexpected directions. Unfortunately, the films mostly trend downward afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Dante\u2019s short about plastic surgery isn\u2019t necessarily bad, but it falls woefully short on the creep-factor and originality. Everything picks up again with Ry\u00fbhei Kitamura\u2019s &#8216;Mashit<em>&#8216;<\/em>, a nunsploitation with exorcisms featuring one of the best film scores of the year. The short doesn\u2019t really make a whole lot of sense but is overflowing with style and sensuality. David Slade\u2019s black and white short feels like a weak <strong><em>Twilight Zone<\/em> <\/strong>episode but is undeniably unnerving. Unfortunately, Mick Garris\u2019 final short, &#8216;Dead&#8217;, which closes off the anthology is an overdrawn nothing story about having to grow up too fast.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s wrap-around, featuring Mickey Rourke as The Projectionist (also directed by Garris), has a strong concept but suffers from shaky execution. This is not necessarily any better or worse than your average anthology film but such a high calibre of talent does make that conclusion especially frustrating. Still, for horror fans there will be at least one gem here to make the journey worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightmare Cinema was seen and reviewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasiafestival.com\/en\/films\/nightmare-cinema\">Fantasia 2018<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the Masters of Horror summon new fears with their new horror anthology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":104152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[5771,797,4841],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Nightmare-Cinema-3-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}