There’s nothing worse than finding yourself in the middle of a surprise party you’re not in the mood for. Double time when three mysterious men invade your isolated French homestead and take your family hostage.
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Schulman does well to never caricaturize the elements of modern life he’s lampooning, instead presenting them in ways immediately recognizable to the audience.
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The concept of Compliance is promising on paper: A young woman’s home is found to be bugged with cameras that she never put there, and she must go on a journey to discover why any of this is going on. The execution of Compliance is a completely different story.
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Sometimes it’s really nice when good movies don’t make you think too much.
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Horror movies—and Jessica Rothe—took to the river at this year’s Fantastic Fest with the world premiere of Beware Boiúna and Texas premiere of the aptly named River.
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Tackling religion, self-preservation, pandemics, PTSD, and paranoia, A Prayer for the Dying covers a lot of interesting territory in just 90-ish minutes.
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What In a Violent Nature 2 lacks in originality it makes up for in personality. This is a funny, campy, super-violent movie that revels in its practical effects and endless gore.
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Primetime is a fascinating and fantastical retelling of the making of a show that leaves a queasy feeling in the stomach of so many viewers.
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Fantastic Fest is back, which means the best time of the year for genre filmmaking is upon us once again. I’m here to give you the full rundown of the ones that have me the most excited from a festival full of surprises, premieres, and potential favorites.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a movie you should see, even if just to support a director who still deserves to be a household name.
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Where SISU 2 shines is taking every element from the first movie and ramping it all up tenfold.
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Hot, sweaty, and filled with dread, Sirāt goes there and takes you alongside it whether you wanted that or not.
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It’s interesting that we don’t really get movies about monkeys very often, let alone horror movies about how scary monkeys are.
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Simply put, watching Angel’s Egg in the quality it deserves has been a significant challenge for decades outside of Japan. Having the opportunity to see a 4K restoration of Angel’s Egg in a movie theater, at Fantastic Fest no less, is a dream come true.
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From secret screenings to off-the-wall showings, Fantastic Fest has a little something for everyone.
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Grazia Tricarico, along with co-writers Marco Morana and Giulio Rizzo, explore what happens when Mona’s body is pushed to the limits by herself, Kurt, society, and something else that resides deep in the picturesque lake she lives near.
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A fanatical community of misogynistic Dutch people, or powerful, skittery, and kind of sexy forest demons? Oh, what a decision for down-on-her luck villager Frieda (Anneke Sluiters, Flikken Rotterdam) to make in Didier Konings’ Witte Wieven.
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From the outset, Get Away perpetually winks at the audience. The comedy comes from a family’s obliviousness to numerous foreboding signifiers of doom, though Frost’s script goes back to that well so much it starts to run dry by the second act.
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All of Hyperreal Film Club’s 2023 Fantastic Fest coverage in one convenient place.
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Hyperreal Film Club writer Blake Williams sat down with producer Jaime Arnaiz, and actors, Mario Mayo and Fernando Gil from the film, I’ll Crush Y’all for an exclusive interview at Fantastic Fest 2023 to talk about the action film scene in Spain, how to get the action star physique, and getting mistaken for Jason Statham.
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