‘River’ review: Dir. Junta Yamaguchi [Fantasia 2023]

Two years ago in 2021, Junta Yamaguchi’s Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes wowed festival crowds. It had a simple premise: a...

‘Where the Devil Roams’ review: Dirs. John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams [Fantasia 2023]

The family behind both The Deeper You Dig and Hellbender return to the festival circuit with their latest project, Where the...

‘Aporia’ review: Dir. Jared Moshe [Fantasia 2023]

Before getting into the review of Aporia, it is important to address the elephant living on the film’s IMDB page. If...

‘Restore Point’ review: Dir. Robert Hloz [Fantasia 2023]

Once upon a time when playing console games, you either had to make it all the way to the end of...

Sympathy for the Devil review: Dir. Yuval Adler [Fantasia 2023]

Few actors have garnered the number of devout, cult-like, following that Nicolas Cage has. Fans of the actor have followed him...

‘Lovely, Dark and Deep’ review: Teresa Sutherland [Fantasia 2023]

Teresa Sutherland is perhaps best known to genre audiences as the writer of 2018’s The Wind. Since that project, Sutherland has...

‘Raging Grace’ review: Dir. Paris Zarcilla [Fantasia 2023]

In Paris Zarcilla’s Raging Grace, undocumented Filipina immigrant Joy (Max Eigenmann) finds herself in an ever increasing amount of strife. The...

‘Stay Online’ review: Dir. Eva Strelnikova [Fantasia 2023]

As a society, we are spending more and more of our time online. It is no surprise then that the screen-life...

‘Blackout’ review: Dir. Larry Fessenden [Fantasia 2023]

In 1995 Larry Fessenden gave the world his spin on the vampire movie with Habit. Later in 2019 came his version...

FrightFest launches 2023 New Blood initiative

FrightFest has announced its 2023 New Blood initiative to encourage new writers in the horror genre. Now in its sixth year,...