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‘Glorious’ Review – Single Location Genre-Bender Descends Into Cosmic Nightmare [Fantasia]

July 21, 2022 Meagan Navarro Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Glorious, Movies, Rebekah McKendry, Reviews

People often seek answers from God in times of strife and anguish. But what would happen if God physically answered? Perhaps the more pertinent question; which God heeded the call? Director Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious frames a single location genre-bender around these questions, creating a darkly comedic and bloody cosmic journey for a man trapped in a restroom. Wes […]

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‘The Harbinger’ Review – Combines Genre Nightmares With Real World Anxieties [Fantasia]

July 20, 2022 Joe Lipsett Andy Mitton, Emily Davis, Fantasia, Gabby Beans, Movies, Myles Walker, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Reviews, Stephanie Roth Haberle, The Harbinger

In the opening scene of Andy Mitton’s The Harbinger, a masked man enters a woman’s apartment to find her screaming and clawing at her arm so tightly that it’s dripping blood. He’s the landlord, and she’s having a nightmare of a predatory Plague Doctor. It’s standard horror stuff, but when the exhausted woman is awoken, […]

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[Trailer] ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ Review Calls the Indie “a Lo-Fi Gross-Out For Weirdos”

July 19, 2022 Brad Miska All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Movies

Worms… it’ll get you fucked up! It was announced ahead of the World Premiere at the ongoing Fantasia Film Festival that Cinedigm acquired Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service SCREAMBOX this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. Reviews […]

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‘Dark Nature’ Review – All-Female Wilderness Thriller Gets Lost in the Woods [Fantasia]

July 18, 2022 Joe Lipsett Berkley Brady, Canadian Horror, Daniel Arnold, Dark Nature, Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Hannah Emily Anderson, Helen Belay, Kyra Harper, Madison Walsh, Movies, Reviews, Roseanne Supernault

The logline for writer/director Berkley Brady’s directorial feature debut Dark Nature describes it as “the story of a therapy group that is forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.” That’s pretty apt, albeit with one small issue: the Canadian film – […]

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‘The Elderly’ Review – Cryptic Slow Burn Doesn’t Quite Reach a Fever Pitch [Fantasia]

July 18, 2022 Meagan Navarro Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Filmax, Movies, Reviews, The Elderly

There’s something wrong with senior citizens in The Elderly (Viejos). The record-breaking heat wave has them behaving eerily, and the temperature continues to rise. Filmmakers Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez, fresh off The Passenger, opt for slow simmering dread in an atmospheric examination of society’s alienation of the elderly. But the restraint and cryptic nature of the horror renders it […]

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Filmax Haunts ‘The Elderly’ in New Cannes Horror Title [Trailer]

July 18, 2022 Brad Miska Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Fernando Gonzalez Gomez, Movies, Raul Cerezo, The Elderly, Videos

Ahead of its World Premiere at the ongoing Fantasia Film Festival, Filmax (REC films) has released the first teaser trailer for Raul Cerezo & Fernando Gonzalez Gomez’s horror The Elderly. In the film, “An octogenarian named Manuel (Zorion Eguileor) falls into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparking a series of […]

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‘Final Cut’ Review – ‘One Cut of the Dead’ Remake Isn’t Original, but It Is Funny and Heartfelt [Fantasia]

July 17, 2022 Joe Lipsett Bérénice Bejo, Coupez, Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Final Cut, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Lyes Salem, Matilda Lutz, Michel Hazanavicius, Movies, One Cut of the Dead, Raphaël Quenard, Reviews, Romain Duris, Shinichiro Ueda, Yoshiko Takehara

Remakes of popular films are inevitable, particularly when a film with a unique high concept takes off. It’s hardly surprising, then, that a title like 2017’s One Cut of the Dead, Shin’ichirō Ueda’s horror comedy about a film crew making a horror flick that’s beset by zombies, is already receiving a remake. The original Japanese […]

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Cinedigm and SCREAMBOX Get ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ Ahead of Fantasia!

July 11, 2022 Brad Miska Alex Phillips, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Fandor, Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Movies, Screambox

Cinedigm announced today the North American acquisition of the creepy-crawly creature feature All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service SCREAMBOX this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. An Official Selection of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival and set to […]

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Slash Opens the Gates to Hell in the Trailer for ‘The Breach’ [Fantasia]

July 5, 2022 Brad Miska Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Movies, Rodrigo Gudino, Slash, The Breach, Videos

Raven Banner Entertainment shares the trailer for The Breach, set to World Premiere at this month’s Fantasia Film Festival. Directed by Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh), The Breach tells the story of John Hawkins, counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of […]

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Images from Fantasia’s Final Wave of Titles – ‘Final Cut’, ‘Sadako XD’, ‘The Elderly’, ‘Bodies, Blodies, Bodies’, and More

June 30, 2022 Brad Miska Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Indie, Movies

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 26th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14 – August 3, with its Frontières International Co-Production Market being held July 21 – 24. Screenings, panels and special events will be taking place at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional […]

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Fantasia Film Festival 2022 – Photos From Second Wave of Horror Films!

June 2, 2022 Brad Miska Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, news

The Fantasia International Film Festival is heading back to theaters this year, celebrating its 26th edition with a dynamic in-person program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 14 through August 3, 2022. The full lineup of over 100 feature films and 200+ shorts will be announced in late June. In the meantime, the festival […]

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Fantasia Film Festival 2022 – Photos From First Wave of Horror Films!

May 5, 2022 Brad Miska All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Fantasia, Fantasia 2022, Glorious, Indie, Movies, The Breach

The Fantasia International Film Festival is heading back to theaters this year, celebrating its 26th edition with a dynamic in-person program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 14 through August 3, 2022. While the festival’s full lineup will be announced in late June, Bloody Disgusting has the first wave of titles and […]

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[Fantasia Review] ‘Midnight’ Brings Propulsive Energy to South Korean Serial Killer Thriller

August 22, 2021 Meagan Navarro Fantasia, Fantasia 2021, Kwon Oh-seung, Midnight, Movies, Reviews

When it comes to unrelentingly bleak and suspenseful thrillers, South Korean cinema reigns supreme. Especially when serial killers enter the equation, with a cat and mouse chase that’ll leave all parties irrevocably changed. Kwon Oh-seung‘s debut feature, Midnight, enters the pantheon of breathless thrillers, delivering a propulsive, unpredictable film that’s lighter than most of its ilk […]

‘The Sadness’ Review – Gory Virus Movie Goes for the Jugular With Transgressive, Extreme Horror

August 21, 2021May 12, 2022 Meagan Navarro Fantasia, Fantasia 2021, Movies, Reviews, Rob Jabbaz, The Sadness

Bloody Disgusting’s The Sadness review is spoiler-free. Everything about the premise of writer/director Rob Jabbaz’s feature debut reads like another formulaic zombie or outbreak horror that’s become overly familiar in the wake of our real-time pandemic. It quickly becomes apparent that The Sadness refuses to adhere to the average viral horror movie. Jabbaz keeps a […]

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‘V/H/S/94’ Star Anna Hopkins Gets Trapped in a ‘Tin Can’ During a Global Plague [Exclusive Clip]

August 21, 2021 Brad Miska Anna Hopkins, Chik White, Exclusives, Fantasia, Kristin Langille, Michael Ironside, Movies, Seth A. Smith, Simon Mutabazi, Tin Can, Videos

Making the festival rounds (Sitges, Fantasia, Popcorn Frights) is Seth A. Smith‘s (The Crescent) sci-fi thriller, Tin Can, which stars V/H/S/94‘s Anna Hopkins as a front-lines parasitologist who is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber as the world faces a deadly plague. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from the film in which we see Hopkins […]