Nov 17Horror Needs to Break Some of its Traditions: ‘Slash/Back’ Can Show Us HowEmerging director Nyla Innuksuk is turning some heads with their Inuit coming-of-age sci-fi horror movie Slash/Back, a fun and intelligent story that features kids from the hamlet of Pangnirtung. Or as the kids call it, Pang. Maika is a teen girl who feels weary of living under the thumb of…Movie Review4 min readMovie Review4 min read
Nov 14Blu-Ray Spotlight: ‘Hansan: Rising Dragon’ Pulls Into Shore 11/15Kim Han-min’s prequel to the excellent Admiral: Roaring Currents (if you haven’t seen that yet it’s perfect timing to track down a copy) focuses a on a more volatile political climate within Korea years prior to the events of the aforementioned film…Blu Ray6 min readBlu Ray6 min read
Nov 7Anticipated Follow-Up ‘The Witch: Part 2’ Heads to Blu-Ray From Well Go USAWhen The Witch: Subversion first came out, it shot to the top of a lot of movie enthusiast’s lists — especially for us action adrenaline junkies. I had heard of it through word of mouth rather than an advertising campaign…Action6 min readAction6 min read
Oct 25‘Antares Paradox’ Pins Us Between a Rock & a Hard Place in the Midst of an Uncaring UniverseFantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — The Antares Paradox, dir. Luís Tinoco Feature film debuts hold some ineffable sense of immediate importance to many. So many unknown expectations are either met, missed, or exceeded…so what do we look for in a debut that satisfies us? Is it the style, the writing of the piece and its…Movie Review4 min readMovie Review4 min read
Oct 21The Genesis of the Slasher Circa MCMLXXIV and ‘The Third Saturday in October Part V’Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — The Third Saturday in October Part V, dir. Jay Burleson In 1974 Bob Clark directed what many would consider to be the first slasher proper. We could get into the proto slasher/giallo markers and who did what first but that wouldn’t be fair for this review since this film has…Movie Review5 min readMovie Review5 min read
Oct 17The Old Shall Inherit the Earth in ‘The Elderly’Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — The Elderly, dir. Fernando González Goméz & Raúl Cerezo Raúl Cerezo & Fernando Goméz’s newest collaboration The Elderly achieves an odd type of alienation. In Madrid various elderly people have started to act strangely, and Mario’s mother has just committed suicide rendering her husband Manuel effectively alone. The family tries…Film3 min readFilm3 min read
Oct 10‘Piggy’ is a Brilliant Pastiche of Horror Conventions & Coming-of-Age TerrorCarlota Pereda’s Piggy hits theaters later this month, October 14th from Magnet Releasing. — There’s something magical about Piggy. Carlota Pereda expands on her short film of the same name, alternating poignant coming-of-age moments between paralyzing horror. Set in the small village of Villanueva de la Vera, Sara is a teenage girl…Film Reviews4 min readFilm Reviews4 min read
Oct 6The Dispiriting Time Capsule of ‘Deep Fear’Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — Deep Fear, dir. Grégory Beghin Horror surrounding the exploration of underground caverns will always appeal to me. In 2005 I went to see The Descent knowing next to nothing about it and found just how much the terror of uncharted subterranean spaces affected me. It’s a movie that has certainly…Film Festivals3 min readFilm Festivals3 min read
Oct 5‘Chop & Steele’ & The Long GameFantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — Chop & Steele, dir. Ben Steinbauer & Berndt Mader Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett are a couple of guys who are pretty good at finding weird tapes. They started amassing a large collection of them that they would watch together and share with friends, then the library got so big…Comedy3 min readComedy3 min read
Oct 3‘They Crawl Beneath’ Emerges on Blu-RayWell Go USA Brings the Creature Feature to Home Video This October There’s a noticeable lack of films featuring subterranean monsters. Tremors brought the bacon and while its sequels provide some diminishing returns they do scratch an itch. We’ll take whatever we can get these days. Dale Fabrigar’s cut-to-the-chase title…Movie Review4 min readMovie Review4 min read
