Fantasia International Film Festival 2023- South Korean filmmakers have a talent for creating bloody revenge movies with an artistic flair. Just consider Oldboy and I Saw the Devil. Written and directed by Kim-Jae Hoon, Devils carries on the tradition. It's a brutal, colorful feature with a body swap twist. Dae-hwan Oh stars as Detective Jae-hwan. [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - For better or worse, we'll likely continue to see a wave of pandemic-based horror films as a response to our collective experience of living through COVID. New Life is a character-driven feature following two women whose paths are set to collide. At the halfway point, the movie includes some [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - There's something about French horror movies. They just seem to push the envelope about as far as it can go, especially features like Inside, Irreversible, Martyrs, or, more recently, Revenge, Raw, and Titane. Director Joséphine Darcy Hopkins' short Sweet Tooth, aka Les Dents du bonheur, follows the recent wave [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Writer/director Charlie Bellarose achieved a real feat with her short Jacques. She created a well-crafted horror comedy that's all kinds of funny. Oh, and the dog, Jacques (Jack Cockapoo), absolutely steals the show. Other than the adorable pooch, the short also stars Bellarose as herself. She encounters Jacques in [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Writer/director Shane Bannon's short The Perfect Place to Cry is one of those films that toys with expectations. You have a young woman, Lyla (Celina Bernstein) sobbing, while alone in her car at night near the woods. When a stranger emerges from the forest, every horror red flag goes off. [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Director Grame Arnfield wants you to think about all of that surveillance tech in your house, especially video doorbells like Ring, and whether or not it's doing more harm than good. Arnfield's video essay, Home Invasion, is a an oddly chilling and affecting history of the doorbell. However, he [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Kudos to any movie bold enough to take one of the most famous phrases in modern American poetry and use it as a title. Yes, I'm referring to Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." It's a fitting poem in the context of writer/director Teresa Sutherland's [...]