Fantastic Fest 23

‘The Origin’ Fantastic Fest Review – An Ambitious High Concept Stone Age Thriller

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Andrew Cumming’s feature directorial debut, The Origin, executes its high concept with impressive ambition. Not only does it travel back 45,000 years in time to tell the survival thriller, but Cummings and screenwriter Ruth Greenberg developed a fictional language for its characters. Combined with a handsomely shot production, it ensures that The Origin beguiles, though it struggles to mine suspense […]

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‘Strange Darling’ Fantastic Fest Review – Cat and Mouse Thriller Has Plenty of Surprises

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“Do you have any idea the kind of risks a woman like me takes every time she decides to have a little bit of fun?” So says our female protagonist in writer/director JT Mollner‘s Strange Darling, a film that dares us to question the roles men and women are expected to play. Are women just prudes […]

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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Review – Chaos Reigns in Macon Blair’s Gory Comedy Reboot

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Writer/Director Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore) answers a very specific question for his sophomore directorial feature: what if Troma’s 1984 cult classic The Toxic Avenger was rebooted with a much bigger budget? Armed with a new Toxie and story, Blair’s version comes packed with reverent nods to the original and retains its specific […]

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‘The Origin’ – Exclusive First Look at Stone Age Horror Movie Takes You Back to Palaeolithic Period [Images]

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Stone age horrors will be unleashed in the upcoming The Origin, an intriguing new horror project that Bleecker Street is bringing to the ongoing Fantastic Fest this weekend. Bleecker Street recently acquired North American rights on the upcoming horror film, which is set during the Palaeolithic period – 45,000 years in the past! We’ve been told, […]

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‘The Last Video Store’ Clip – A Cursed VHS Tape Is Ready to Kill

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The Last Video Store, set to premiere this Friday at Fantastic Fest, pays tribute to the format wars and the video stores of yesteryear through a cursed VHS tape that unleashes terror. Bloody Disgusting has been provided with a clip that demonstrates a horrific fate far worse than late fees for store employees and patrons. […]

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‘Where the Devil Roams’ Exclusive Trailer – The Adams Family Brings Their Twisted Carnival to Fantastic Fest

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The Adams Family debuted on the scene with The Deeper You Dig and returned last year for Shudder’s Hellbender. Up next from the family – and yes, they are indeed a real family – is Where the Devil Roams, and the film is headed to Fantastic Fest in September. After playing Fantastic Fest, Where the Devil Roams is coming exclusively […]

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SCREAMBOX at Fantastic Fest: 1988 Home Invasion Slasher ‘Door’ and Ultra Gory Japanese Anthology ‘Visitors’!

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SCREAMBOX is once again heading to Fantastic Fest (September 21 – 28), bringing two brand new Japanese horror films that are going to absolutely blow your collective minds. The first is Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered. The […]

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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Remake – First Image Previews the Next Evolution of Troma’s Hero

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Get ready to meet Winston Gooze in The Toxic Avenger remake, which will have its World Premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas (September 21 – 28). “A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: THE TOXIC AVENGER!” Fantastic Fest writes of writer/director Macon Blair‘s (I Don’t Feel […]

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‘V/H/S/85’ to World Premiere at Fantastic Fest! [Image]

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Shudder, Studio71, Cinepocalypse & Bloody Disgusting are this time rewinding all the way back to the 1980s with V/H/S/85, which will have its World Premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas (September 21 – 28). “The iconic found footage series returns with an array of explosive, bloody scares set in a decade obsessed with […]

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Fantastic Fest’s Insane Program Includes ‘Toxic Avenger’, ‘V/H/S/85’, ‘Pet Sematary: Bloodlines’ and More!

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Fantastic Fest is back for its eighteenth edition which is jam-packed with horror insanity including World Premieres of several prominent titles including the remake of Troma’s cult classic The Toxic Avenger, the Bloody Disgusting-produced Shudder Original V/H/S/85, Blumhouse and Amazon’s Totally Killer, and Paramount’s hotly anticipated Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. The festival will once again possess […]

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‘Kids vs. Aliens’ Images Prepare for a Fantastic Fest Battle! [Exclusive]

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“Treevenge”, Hobo with a Shotgun, V/H/S/2, and Vice TV’s hit “Dark Side of the Ring” director Jason Eisener is back with the horror/sci-fi Kids vs. Aliens, which will have its World Premiere this coming Friday at the ongoing Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Ahead of the premiere, Bloody Disgusting is excited to share the first stills from the […]

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