August 16, 2021
Brian Fanelli
Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Writer/director Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw is a deeply unsettling occult film set in mid-19th Century New York. While the story has a few supernatural elements, its real horror comes from the unspeakable punishment men unleash upon Mary and her female lover, all in the name of [...]
August 15, 2021
Brian Fanelli
Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Hellbender is a coming-of-age tale with a creative occult twist. Loner Izzy (Zelda Adams) doesn’t worry about typical teenage problems, like school or boys. Instead, she has much larger identity issues. She discovers after eating a worm that she’s a hellbender, meaning she’s part witch, part demon, and part [...]
THE RIGHTEOUS–Religious Horror Done Right–FIFF
THE LAST THING MARY SAW–Unsettling Occult Horror–FIFF
HELLBENDER–She Is Woman, and She Will Roar–FIFF