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Fantasia 2023 review: A visual feast, The Adams Family ‘s ‘WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS,’ showcases the fiercest loyalty to family and the macabre.

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WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS A Film by The Adams Family On behalf of their freakish and fantastical extended family members, three Depression-era carnies leave blood in their wake from town-to-town while trying to right the wrongs committed by locals. WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS is the latest and greatest from the filmmaking phenom family Toby Poser, John, and Zelda Adams. The production design is delicious. Fall Read More →

‘The Serpent’s Skin’ (2026) The sixth spooky and spellbinding film from Alice Maio Mackay.

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The Serpent’s Skin Alice Maio Mackay has established herself as a powerhouse in indie filmmaking, cranking out stylized horror films that capture your attention from the very first frame. In her 6th feature film, the 21-year-old trans director tackles queer horror romance. The Serpent’s Skin follows Anna, a young trans woman who finally left her judgmental parents and moved in Read More →

Fantasia 2025 is on its way to slay.

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Fantasia 2025 The literal moment a certain NYC festival closes, I begin to get hyped for Fantasia. If you are a genre nerd like I am, this is the festival that I’m talking about all year. Home of upcoming filmmakers that ultimately become household names, Fantasia boasts some of the coolest, scariest, weirdest, goriest, and most shocking films of the Read More →

FANTASIA UNVEILS VIVID FIRST WAVE OF TITLES FOR ITS 29th EDITION

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FANTASIA UNVEILS VIVID FIRST WAVE OF TITLES FOR ITS 29th EDITION   Steve Pink’s TERRESTRIAL, Kenichi Ugana’s I FELL IN LOVE WITH A Z-GRADE DIRECTOR IN BROOKLYN, Julie Pacino’s I LIVE HERE NOW, Hwang Wook’s THE WOMAN, Hubert Davis’ THE WELL, Yasuhiro Aoki’s CHAO, Kurtis David Harder’s INFLUENCERS, The Adams Family’s MOTHER OF FLIES, Alex Philips’ ANYTHING THAT MOVES, Shuhei Read More →

‘THE THAW’ (HollyShorts 2024) A stunning horror folklore begging for a feature

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THE THAW Filmmakers Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple‘s striking horror folktale has been killing it on the festival circuit, and rightly so. THE THAW tells the story of a family running low on food for the winter months, tasking their daughter to prepare a sleeping tea that would put them into a deep hibernation state. It does not go well. Read More →

Fantasia 2024: It’s Heeerrreee (almost). Genre’s best of the best is about to begin.

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FANTASIA 2024 It’s no secret that Fantasia is the festival I gush about the most. If you want to call yourself a genre film fan you have to know about the buzziest films coming out of the fest each year. Once again, Quebec will host a plethora of premieres, a gaggle of talks with the industry’s best, and scare the Read More →

Vampires, Werewolves, Frankenstein, Time Travel, and Fever Dreams. Oh, is that all? Nope. What to Watch at Fantasia Festival 2023, coming this week!

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Fantasia 2023 is almost upon us, or as we like to say, “It’s Christmas in July, Motherf*ckers!” But, we usually keep that on the inside. Now that you have a taste of how demented we naturally are, here is a handful of films we are stoked to check out at this year’s fest. It’s the stuff we’ll undoubtedly be buzzing Read More →

NEWS- FANTASIA ANNOUNCES A BLISTERING FIRST WAVE OF TITLES FOR ITS 27th EDITION

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FIRST WAVE OF TITLES FOR ITS 27th EDITION A spotlight on South Korean cinema, a Canadian trailblazer Award for underground legend Larry Kent and World Premieres of new works from Larry Fessenden, Xavier Gens, Jenn Wexler, Jared Moshe, The Adams Family, and Victor Ginzburg + International Premieres of Tsutomu Hanabusa’s blockbusters TOKYO REVENGERS 2 – PART 1 & 2 headline Read More →

‘HELLBENDER’ (2022) begins streaming today on SHUDDER! It’s gonna rock you to your core.

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HELLBENDER In Hellbender, 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) suffers from a rare illness that has kept her isolated on a mountaintop with her mother (Toby Poser) her whole life. As Izzy begins to question her sickness, she pushes back against her confinement and secretly befriends Amber (Lulu Adams), another girl living on the mountain, but her newfound happiness is derailed after Read More →

Slamdance (2022) review: ‘HONEYCOMB’ tackles female complexity in this unusual coming of age debut.

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HONEYCOMB Five small-town girls abandon their mundane lives and move into an abandoned cabin. Growing increasingly isolated, their world becomes filled with imagined rituals and rules but the events of one summer night threaten to abruptly end their age of innocence forever. Honeycomb feels akin to watching a slumber party on Lord of the Flies terms. The timing of the Read More →

Fantasia International Film Festival 2021 review: ‘HELLBENDER’ rocked me to my core.

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HELLBENDER A lonely teen discovers her family’s ties to witchcraft. Honestly, if I could choose to grow up in another family, it would be the Adams family. I’m not talking about Morticia and Gomez. While I adore that lot, I’m talking about the indie horror filmmaking family. These industrious and smart people consisting of Mom, Toby Poser, dad, John Adams, Read More →

‘The Deeper You Dig’ (Fantasia International Film Festival 2019) will never let you rest in peace.

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THE DEEPER YOU DIG In the aftermath of a roadside accident, the line between the living and the dead collapses for a mother, a daughter and a stranger. This is one of the most unique films of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. The fact that our three stars wrote, directed and shot this film is absolutely astounding. The script Read More →

‘Same Same But Different’ (SXSW 2026) Fiercely funny coming-of-age

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Same Same But Different In Lauren Noll’s SXSW 2026 dramedy, Same Same But Different, we follow three Persian childhood friends: a personal trainer, a lawyer, and an aspiring writer, grappling with identity and their ever-evolving relationships. Rana has had her visa application denied three times. Working as a home care nurse in order to stay in the country. When her Read More →

‘VESELKA’ (2024) doc follows a restaurant entering the global stage

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VESELKA: THE RAINBOW ON THE CORNER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD New York City’s beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka is best known for its borscht and varenyky, but it has become a beacon of hope for Ukraine. As the second-generation owner Tom Birchard reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes Read More →

Review: ‘ SOMETHING YOU SAID LAST NIGHT’ is a completely fresh take on trans storytelling.

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A Film by Luis De Filippis Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her parents, Mona and Guido, and her younger sister, Siena, on a beach resort holiday in cottage country. As Ren navigates the resort, she struggles to cope with her parents’ loving yet overbearing nature, and tries to balance the yearning for independence with the comfort of being Read More →

Tribeca Festival 2023 Curtain raiser: Films we are putting on our must-see lists before the festival begins

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TRIBECA FESTIVAL 2023 brings thrills, mystery, comedy, fantasy, you name it, there is something for everyone. This year’s lineup features Joe Lynch‘s latest, Suitable Flesh, Gabriela Cowperthwaite‘s I.S.S., and David Duchovny‘s Bucky F*cking Dent. Let’s get into a few of the films we are dying to get our eyeballs on this year.   THE LISTENER – North American Premiere – Read More →

SXSW 2023 documentary review: Dan Covert paints a picture of art and artist in ‘GEOFF MCFETRIDGE: DRAWING A LIFE’

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GEOFF MCFETRIDGE: DRAWING A LIFE The mind of an artist is a splendid thing. SXSW 2023 doc GEOFF MCFETRIDGE: DRAWING A LIFE delves into the wondrous mind of a nurtured creative. Director Dan Covert puts a face and a name to the work we’ve seen for years. Meet Geoff McFetridge, graphic designer, visual artist, and family man. Geoff’s animated drawings Read More →

SXSW 2023 documentary review: ‘SATAN WANTS YOU’ will fire you up.

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SATAN WANTS YOU Dollars and the Devil. SATAN WANTS YOU at SXSW 2023 is more relevant than most of us would like it to be. In 1976, Dr. Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith had an unusual doctor/patient relationship. Under hypnosis, Michelle describes dreams as Pazder records and interprets for her. These sessions became a bestselling book, ‘Michelle Remembers, and the Read More →

SXSW 2023: Horror and Sci-fi and Docs, Oh My! A curtain raiser for the masses.

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SWSX 2023 has something for everyone, from franchise horror expansion to the hotly anticipated premiere of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. But we’re here to share some of the films on our radar this year.   Click here for tickets and all things SXSW 2023 Pure ODirector/Screenwriter: Dillon Tucker, Producers: Ricky Fosheim, Dillon Tucker, Ray LeeA young screenwriter/musician grapples Read More →

Grand Jury Prize/ Int’l competition WINNER @ DOC NYC: ‘HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND’ is a final love letter spread across 12 years of filming.

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HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND The monster that is depression roars silently because, in Russia, depression is not allowed to have a voice. Putin has seen to that. In HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND, filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya chronicles over a decade of her emotional roller coaster in life, love, and deep-seated despair. Kimi was a history major with Read More →