Fantasia Film Festival 2018

Focused on the youth of Japan, Wilderness is an oddly assembled film. Its main narrative centered around Shinji (Masaki Suda) and Kenji (Ik-joon Yang) is enrapturing, and culminates to a…

There’s a whole underground world of deviant sexual play out there that most people don’t encounter, and Rondo is one of the few films to use this perfect environment as…

Released originally as a ten-episode series for Amazon, Tokyo Vampire Hotel is the kind of film that could only have come from the mind of Sion Sono. While channeling the absurdity of…

Akin to last year’s The Florida Project, Tigers Are Not Afraid centers around youth trapped in an inhospitable environment. They are always on the run, always keeping an eye behind their shoulder, and always…

Mean-spirited, bloody, and over-the-top; these seem to be the driving forces behind the creation of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. Serving as a soft reboot to the popular puppet-killing franchise, the…

Battle rap, the musical subspecialty that’s better known today for its parodies, makes a triumphant return in Joseph Kahn’s Bodied. Kahn’s film is often thrilling, and features some great raps…

‘Heavy Trip’ has got enough jokes to sustain itself, and the music is all really good — if you like metal.

The internet is a scary place. But it’s just the internet, right? At least, that’s what you tend to hear whenever someone falls victim to online violence like harassment, hate…

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura is a film displaced in time. It seems to yearn for a simpler time, free of worry and constraint, imbued with a child-like sense of…

From the title alone, you might expect The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot to be a grindhouse spoof with excessive violence, exploding pustules, and other cheesy, sordid pleasures of…

Stênio talks to the dead, and the dead talk back. A coroner in the crime-ridden city of São Paulo, he’s not lacking for people to chat with either. Night after…

The Fantasia Film Festival’s 2018 installment has already had some incredibly strong entries this year, and while we can’t cover them all with full-length reviews , we still can’t let…

What begins as a mystery involving a missing body and a tormented detective devolves into a boring procedural that by its conclusion thinks it’s the smartest movie in the room,…

‘Pledge’ succeeds in large part due to the strength of Weiner’s screenplay about a horrific fraternity, as well as the talents of the actors involved.

While ‘Satan’s Slaves’ doesn’t quite reach lofty heights, it carries itself with enough confidence and tension to satisfy horror fans.

One of the highlights of Fantasia 2018 is this update on Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” now transported to a crime-riddled neighborhood in South Africa.