Film Festivals Articles

Fantastic Fest Announces Its Stellar 2024 Film Lineup and Other Offerings

Austin's Fantastic Fest offers chillers, thrillers, serial killers, and all other sorts of cinematic horror, along with a wide range of other genre films, too. Have a gander at what's in store with the following official press announcement. Step...

Spoiler-Free Review: IN OUR BLOOD (Fantasia 2024)

I hesitate to call Pedro Kos’s feature In Our Blood a found footage film because although it does use some of the trappings of that subgenre, I feel his tale of a young woman’s search for her missing mother has more of a cinéma vérité feel to it,...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: ELECTROPHILIA and ASTRO NOTS (Fantasia 2024)

Electrophilia (Los Impactados) Argentinian feature Electrophilia touches on body horror and eroticism involving electricity but never goes full-on with these themes, instead feeling more like a character study of its protagonist, veterinarian...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: DARKEST MIRIAM and THE OLD MAN AND THE DEMON SWORD (Fantasia 2024)

Darkest Miriam Canadian feature Darkest Miriam is a slow-burn thriller that follows thirtysomething librarian Miriam (Britt Lower), who is grieving over the loss of her father. She spends her days at work following routine— including dealing with...