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 [...]

Fantastic Fest is proud to announce our first wave of programming for the seventh edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 22-29 in Austin, Texas. This batch of 20 films spans the globe from Japan, Belgium, Mexico, Russia, Hong Kong, Korea and of course the USA. We’re debuting digital restorations of Italian horror classics and a [...]

by Marc Patterson Typically you’d see us offer a straight up review of this DVD. Thing is – we’ve talked about Red, White & Blue for over a year. We caught it at SXSW back in 2010 and provided a detailed review then. It made our “best-of” lists during our end of year wrap-up. We [...]

by Marc Patterson We haven’t posted any news about Yoshihiro Nishimura’s latest film Helldriver, but it’s about damn time we do. Nishimura has helmed films such as Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. He’s also worked in the make-up and special effects department on most of the over-the-top Japanese gore films that [...]

by Britt Hayes IGN premiered a red band trailer today for Ji-woon Kim’s (A Tale of Two Sisters, The Good, the Bad, the Weird) latest film, I Saw the Devil. Starring Min-sik Choi (Oldboy) and Byung-hun Lee (The Good, the Bad, the Weird), I Saw the Devil is the breathtakingly intense tale of Soo-hyeon, a [...]

by Britt Hayes Last week the folks at SXSW announced their features and documentaries, and while we’re looking forward to Ti West’s newest film, The Innkeepers, we’re even more thrilled about the official Midnight line-up. This year SXSW has put together a great list of horror films for their Midnight program, as well as some [...]

by Marc Patterson Hobo With a Shotgun has somehow charmed its way onto our “must see in 2011″ list. Jason Eisener’s insane creativity (have you seen Treevenge yet?) has made Hobo a film way too over the top to be passed up, and despite the overshadowing at Sundance from Red State and The Woman, I [...]

by Britt Hayes It seems like every year it’s become tradition to lament what a terrible year it’s been for film. I hear this a lot from general audiences and the easy answer is: Watch more movies. But I also hear this from other critics, and my answer is the same: Watch more movies. I [...]

Interview conducted by Marc Patterson – September 2010 It was not but a couple days before Fantastic Fest that I got the opportunity to talk to Marc Senter, an extraordinary new talent on the independent film scene who talked with us about everything from Led Zepplin to sinking into the role of Ray Pye from [...]

DVD Review: Antichrist (2009) DVD Release Date: November 9, 2010 Distributor: Paradox Directed by: Lars Von Trier Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe Review by: Kayley Viteo The first time I saw Antichrist was at Fantastic Fest about a year and a half ago. It was truly a cinematic experience to remember, but an experience I [...]

by Britt Hayes Rubber (2010) Directed by: Quentin Dupieux Starring: Thomas F. Duffy, Wings Hauser, James Parks, Jack Plotnick Rubber may go down in history as having one of the best opening scenes in a film ever. We’re introduced to a police officer as he climbs out of the trunk of a car and gives [...]

I Saw the Devil (2010) Fantastic Fest 2010 Directed by: Ji-woon Kim Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Oh-san Ha Review by: Britt Hayes After his beautiful fiancée Joo-yeon is savagely murdered, Soo-hyun sets out to find the killer and exact his revenge. Luckily for Soo-hyun, his fiancées dad is a detective, and even better – Soo-hyun has been working [...]

Short Fuse! Severe Fantastic Shorts Fantastic Fest 2010 Review by: Damon Swindall One of my favorite things about film festivals is getting to see short films.  Budding filmmakers everywhere usually get their start in this medium, yet only a handful of people ever really see them.  There is no real market for short films in the mainstream movie-watching [...]