by JC De Leon If there’s one thing that the team who created the [Rec] franchise has taught us, it’s that they are a cinematic force to be reckoned with. One half of that team — Jaume Balagueró — has managed to craft a film at this year’s Fantastic Fest that is much slower paced, [...]

by JC De Leon Continuing the trend of films at this year’s Fantastic Fest that keep the viewer guessing and result in being pleasantly surprised, we have an entry from Adrián García Bogliano: Penumbra. Fresh off making a splash at SXSW earlier this year, this follow-up examines a day in the life of a beautiful [...]

by Britt Hayes It’s not easy to craft a film that is both an acknowledgement and re-invigoration of a genre. You’re Next breathes fresh life into a genre that’s been dominated in recent years by foreign horror imports, with the last good American home invasion film being the eerily effective The Strangers. When Erin (Sharni Vinson)  goes [...]

by JC De Leon Film festivals can, at times, subject those that attend to films of a familiar nature. So many times we will sit down for a film where we think we’ll know all of the steps that are about to unfold. Such is the case with Rabies. Stop me if you’ve heard this [...]

by Britt Hayes What do you do when your son is an irredeemable, manipulative, and dangerous human being, but the only person who can see it is you? In Lynne Ramsay’s latest film, We Need to Talk About Kevin (based on the novel of the same name), Eva (Tilda Swinton) and Franklin (John C. Reilly) [...]

by Britt Hayes Sean Hogan returns to Austin just six months after the premiere of Little Deaths at SXSW to present his latest effort, The Devil’s Business. The story of two hit men sent to take out a man who has slighted their mob boss, The Devil’s Business is an intimate and engaging film that [...]

Review by J.C. De Leon I know what you’re thinking. Juan of the Dead. You’re thinking “with a name like that, did the writer/director even TRY to come up with something original?” While it may not be the most original film, (but really, what zombie film today is completely original anyway?), it’s certainly one of [...]

by Britt Hayes The writing and directing team of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are responsible for arguably one of the best horror films in recent memory: Inside (À l’intérieur). With Inside, the duo created a tense, violent home invasion film that touched upon themes of obsession, motherhood, and loss. With Livid, they’ve returned with [...]

by Britt Hayes Two years ago Tom Six premiered Human Centipede at Fantastic Fest, earning high praise for the button-pushing genre film and promising a more provocative and brutal second film in the planned trilogy. This year Six is back with Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence. Six introduces his audience to Martin (Laurence R. Harvey), [...]

by Marc Patterson Brace yourself horror fans. Let the hyperbole filled hype begin. It’s time to get underway with The Human Centipede: Full Sequence marketing blitz. The Human Centipede, a film so drastically dull and derivative, but yet one that featured such an outlandish and preposterous pretense of perversion that every genre geek worldwide was [...]

Fantastic Fest is excited to announce its final wave of feature film programming including the world premiere of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: FULL SEQUENCE on opening night courtesy of IFC Midnight and COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN’S HOPE on closing night. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE became a cultural sensation after its premiere at Fantastic Fest in [...]