Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - I can't believe it's claymation -- I totally lost myself inside of Junk Head creator Takahide Hori's world! Having written the screenplay and directed the film, configured the lighting, drafted character designs, and so much more in order to create Junk Head over the course of 7 years, this [...]

At first glance, The Colony is a dystopian future movie reminiscent of films and premises seen before, but the movie presented itself as far beyond cookie-cutter despite its predictability. I myself initially resisted having to get behind yet another character from a privileged elite class turning into a rogue redeemer, but I was quickly won [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) -  I don't think I have seen anything like Sexy Furby before, and I'm not sure if I want to again. I love weird stories, but Sexy Furby is weird in a way that I felt was trying very hard to be silly or trying very hard to be weird [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Directed and co-written by Spanish filmmaker Igor Legarreta, Ilargi Guztiak ("All The Moons") is a Basque-language film that tells a unique vampire saga set at the turn of the 20th century. It is a story that shows both how dangerous it is to be a child as well as [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Directed and co-written by Rueben Martell, Don't Say Its Name starts out as a murder mystery, but it quickly turns into a supernatural thriller as a ravenous corporation and a supernatural entity both begin to terrorize the lives of people on a reservation. The film's snowy setting is often [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Written and directed by Jesse Blanchard, a Canadian filmmaker and puppet master, Frank & Zed is a period piece horror whose cast is comprised of a plethora of puppets and their talented voice actors and puppeteers. Bravely bloody, gushingly gory, and dryly humorous, Frank & Zed is definitely not [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - From the outset of Petit Vampire (aka Little Vampire) I knew that I would fall in love with the film. Opening with a swashbuckling sword fight and segueing into a montage that I would liken to a family-friendly version of a Ralph Bakshi sequence with similar energy and busy [...]