My job is about understanding someone’s life in reverse.”Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! The problem with a lot of classic horror tropes is that they’ve become too familiar ...

I have written a lot about Mark Herrier’s 1991 slasher Popcorn in this column, for reasons that are relatively obvious to anyone who has seen it. Popcorn is about a group of film students who are ...

Nicolas Curcio won last year’s inaugural Fantastic Pitches competition, a partnership between Fantastic Fest and indie studio Chroma that hands one aspiring filmmaker $100,000 in production funding ...

Anthony Oberbeck’s directorial debut, Little Doors, is firmly camped out in the absurd suburbia subgenre that Jesse Eisenberg has been quietly cultivating over the last few years, that specific ...

Writer-director Yerkezhan Baizhan first told this story two years ago as a short film that premiered at Fantastic Fest, a bite-sized nightmare about a toddler left alone with a frail grandmother. With ...

I loved Virginia Feito’s novel going in, so I had a lot riding on director Zachary Wigon sticking the landing here, and for most of the runtime, he does. In 1858, an eccentric young governess named ...

Mike P. Nelson, fresh off his Silent Night, Deadly Night remake, heads deep into the Amazon for Beware Boiúna, and the results are a little murkier than his last outing, in tone if not in craft. There ...

Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, the Chilean duo behind The Wolf House, have made their most narrative-driven film yet with Donkey Princess, a loose, shape-shifting reimagining of Charles Perrault’s ...

Zach Cregger catching grief for his comedic instincts feels like ancient history at this point, but there was a stretch there where critics did not exactly know what to do with “the funny guy from ...