Fantastic 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…

Well 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…

Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — Brutal Season, dir. Gavin Fields Set up immediately as a stage play for the screen, Brutal Season starts incredibly strong. As it introduces the time period, setting, and characters with a warm & welcoming narration we start on a path that suggests this has something different to offer than just…

Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — Bad City, dir. Kensuke Sonomura Kensuke Sonomura has already made a name for himself with 2019’s Hydra, his action-heavy debut following an assassin who’s changed careers for the restaurant industry as a chef. Where that has a shorter runtime but a tendency to stretch its pacing, Bad City feels much…

The SOV Horror Flick You Never Knew You Needed to See! — Few things are as delightful as discovering a new favorite movie for the first time. As a lifelong fan of The Evil Dead, it was a pleasure to discover that a couple other fans of the movie took it upon themselves to create something in the same arena: a little…

Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — Asombrosa Elisa (Amazing Elisa) Representation is a double-edged sword. Not always, but in Sadrac González-Perellón’s Asombrosa Elisa the knife finds a way to cut in more ways than one. Elisa is a 12-year old girl who is convinced she has superpowers. Obsessed with “Amazing Beatriz,” her favorite comic book hero…

Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, dir. Alex Phillips Alex Phillips’ feature-length fever dream is getting a lot of eyes and attention during the film festival season, something that probably wouldn’t be happening if not for the tendency for horror fans and programmers to champion new original works. …

Fantastic Fest @ Home @ celluloid consommé — Y Todos Arderán (Everyone Will Burn), dir. David Hebrero David Hebrero directs this Omen/Changeling-esque horror film that centers on a woman on the brink of suicide pulled back into the land of the living by a girl who claims to be her daughter. She’s only ever had a son, but…

Well Go USA releases the film on Blu-Ray & DVD in the US and Canada for the first time this year. — Mykola and his wife Nastya live a secluded, simple life in the Donbas region of Ukraine. On a typical day Mykola teaches physics at a nearby school while Nastya hunts or forages for their food. …