Kim 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, amidst the Japanese invasion in 1592. As in…

When 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 mostly since, at least before Parasite, South Korean films (genre…

Fantastic 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…

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…

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…

Carlota 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 who works at her parent’s butcher shop and faces regular fat shaming…

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…

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…