Fantastic Fest 2023 - The holidays certainly aren't perfect for everyone. Heck, they can be filled with awkward moments and uncomfortable family gatherings. This is very much true of You're Not Me, a feature that's bizarre and unsettling holiday horror centered on a family who just may have replaced its daughter with a beggar off [...]

Fantastic Fest 2023 - Nolan Bentley (Michael Weston) wakes up one day, tied to a tree, with no recollection of how exactly he got there. Heck, he can't even remember why anyone would leave him in the woods to die. He encounters a mysterious stranger (A.J. Buckley) who really isn't eager to help him. We've [...]

Fantastic Fest 2023 - Falling Stars is a gorgeous and mesmerizing movie that operates, in part, on its own mythos about witches descending from the skies during the October harvest. The cinematography is engrossing, and this is one of the more enchanting folk horror films that we've had in a while. It's a perfect, witchy [...]

Fantastic Fest 2023- No matter our race, class, or gender, we all have one thing in common. One day, our clock will expire. We're going to die. Transición is an eerie and startling meditation on the aging process and mortality, starring trans actress Celeste González, who turns in quite an emotional performance as Angela. The [...]

Fantastic Fest 2023 - Ever since 2018's The Haunting of Hill House, it's been a spooky season tradition to have a new limited series by Mike Flanagan on Netflix. His latest, The Fall of the House of Usher, features several loose adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales, including The Masque of the Red [...]

Fantastic Fest 2023 - Before haunts became a multi-billion-dollar industry with massive theme parks, there was Spooky World in Berlin, MA. What started as essentially a hayride with a few horror celebs in attendance soon grew into a major attraction that sparked national attention. Spooktacular! is a fascinating documentary about Spooky World's meteoric rise in [...]

Fantastic Fest 2023 - Writer/director Demián Rugna had a tall task before him in topping the disturbing imagery from his 2017 breakout film Terrified. Well, his follow-up, When Evil Lurks, certainly doesn't skimp on the nightmare fuel. His latest is a demented depiction of hell unleashed upon a small village. No one is safe, not [...]