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‘The Offering’ Teaser Trailer Has Entered Our Realm Ahead of Fantastic Fest [Exclusive]

September 21, 2022 Brad Miska Abyzou, Allan Corduner, Emily Wiseman, Exclusives, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 22, Movies, Nick Blood, Oliver Park, Paul Kaye, The Offering, Videos

Fantastic Fest is back this week for its seventeenth edition featuring everything from teddy bears, to man-eating sharks, elderly zombies, cocktail-serving robots, and Park Chan-wook… all under one roof. The festival will once again take over the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX, and one title we’re particularly excited about is The Offering (formerly […]

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‘Smile’ Poster Finds a New Face Ahead of Fantastic Fest Premiere

September 20, 2022 Brad Miska Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 22, Movies, posters, Smile

Paramount Players’ horror movie Smile is the opening night film of Fantastic Fest 2022, the “intensely creepy debut feature” from writer/director Parker Finn. Smile comes to theaters on September 30, and a brand new poster has been unzipped this afternoon and has found a new face. In the film, “After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose […]

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Six Bloody Disgusting Films Premiering at Fantastic Fest 2022!

September 19, 2022 Brad Miska All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2022, Fantastic Fest 22, Kids vs. Aliens, missing, Movies, Terrifier 2, V/H/S/99

The ever prestigious Fantastic Fest returns next week for its seventeenth edition featuring 21 World Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, and 21 U.S Premieres. The press release teases killer teddy bears, man-eating sharks, elderly zombies, cocktail-serving robots, and Park Chan-wook… all under one roof. But this year’s fest is even more special to us. Bloody […]

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‘Kids vs. Aliens’ – RLJE Films and Shudder Acquire Jason Eisener’s Sci-Fi Horror Movie!

September 19, 2022 Brad Miska Asher Grayson, Ben Tector, Bloody Disgusting, Dominic Mariche, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 22, Jason Eisener, Kids vs. Aliens, Movies

RLJE Films & Shudder have together fully financed and partnered on the anticipated horror/sci-fi film Kids vs. Aliens ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. The film is the latest collaboration between producers Bloody Disgusting, Cinepocalypse, and Studio71, who jointly produced V/H/S/94 and V/H/S/99. RLJE Films will release the film In Theaters, on Demand and […]

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‘Missing’ – Japanese Shocker Acquired by Dark Star Ahead of Fantastic Fest! [Dark Star x Bloody Disgusting]

September 13, 2022 Brad Miska Bloody Disgusting, Dark Star, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2022, missing, Movies

Dark Star Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to the crime thriller Missing as part of its ongoing collaboration with Bloody Disgusting, we’re excited to announce today. After screening at several prestigious festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Fantasia, and the forthcoming Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, Missing will open in theaters on […]

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SCREAMBOX Acquires French Horror ‘Deep Fear’ and Heads Into the Catacombs This October!

August 19, 2022 Brad Miska Deep Fear, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2022, Grégory Beghin, Movies, Screambox

Cinedigm announced today they have acquired North American rights to the Belgian survival horror film Deep Fear, which will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest this September before streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX on October 11. Deadline first reported the news this afternoon. Directed by Grégory Beghin (Losers Revolution) and set in the […]

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‘Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle’ Trailer Takes Flight Ahead of Fantastic Fest World Premiere Next Month!

August 17, 2022 Brad Miska Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2022, Movies, Videos

Fantastic Fest is back for its seventeenth edition featuring killer teddy bears, man-eating sharks, elderly zombies, cocktail-serving robots, and Park Chan-wook… all under one roof. The festival will once again take over the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX from September 22nd – 29th and one film taking flight will be Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle, […]

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Fantastic Fest 2022 – Jason Eisener’s ‘Kids vs. Aliens’ to World Premiere; ‘Terrifier 2’, ‘V/H/S/99’, ‘Sick’, ‘The Menu’, ‘Birdemic 3’ and More! [Images]

August 16, 2022 Brad Miska All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Fantastic Fest, Jason Eisener, Kids vs. Aliens, Movies, Terrifier 2, V/H/S/99

Fantastic Fest is back for its seventeenth edition featuring 21 World Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, and 21 U.S Premieres and the press release teases killer teddy bears, man-eating sharks, elderly zombies, cocktail-serving robots, and Park Chan-wook… all under one roof. The festival will once again take over the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, […]

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[Fantastic Fest Review] ‘Homebound’ Is a Slight But Tension-Filled Domestic Thriller

October 8, 2021 Meagan Navarro Fantastic Fest, homebound, Movies, Reviews

Meeting your significant other’s family for the first time is a social scenario ripe for mining anxiety and dread. Writer/Director Sebastian Godwin takes the familiar setup and packs it full of unsettling atmosphere and psychological tension. The small-scale domestic thriller may not forge new ground or offer a lot to chew on, but Homebound does keep you firmly in […]

‘She Will’ Director Charlotte Colbert, Alice Krige, and Malcolm McDowell Talk Highlands Witchcraft and Dario Argento [Fantastic Fest]

October 1, 2021 Meagan Navarro Alice Krige, Dario Argento, Fantastic Fest, Interviews, She Will

Director Charlotte Colbert‘s feature debut impresses with its bold grasp of visual storytelling. It tells of famous actress Veronic Ghent (Alice Krige), who retreats to the Highlands to recover after a double mastectomy. The land’s power awakens something within her, granting her the ability to obtain retribution through dreams. First, she’ll have to contend with resurfaced trauma […]

[Fantastic Fest Review] ‘Alone With You’ Is a Mixed Bag of Queer Paranoia

October 1, 2021 Trace Thurman Alone With You, Barbara Crampton, Dora Madison, Emily Bennett, Emma Miles, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2021, Queer Horror, Reviews, Trace Movie Review

Single-setting horror films almost always make for a fascinating watch. Films like Buried, Cube and Frozen force their directors to make the most of their sparse surroundings, usually with a limited budget. In these films, the locales are practically their own characters. Executed poorly, and these films risk putting the audience to sleep. More and more of these […]

[Fantastic Fest Review] ‘Slumber Party Massacre’ Updates a Feminist Classic for the Modern Era

September 28, 2021 Trace Thurman Danishka Esterhazy, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2021, Hannah Gonera, Movies, Reviews, Slumber Party Massacre, Suzanne Keilly, The Slumber Party Massacre, Trace Movie Review

Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 film The Slumber Party Massacre was a bit of a rarity in the ’80s slasher boom: it was written by a feminist writer (Rita Mae Brown) and told from a female perspective (Jones’). While they were beholden to certain non-feminist genre tropes (half-naked pillow fights and fully naked breasts, just to name a […]

[Fantastic Fest Review] Tommy Wirkola’s Zany ‘The Trip’ Puts Its Protagonists Through Intensive Couples Therapy

September 28, 2021 Trace Thurman Aksel Hennie, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2021, Movies, Noomi Rapace, Reviews, The Trip, Tommy Wirkola

Tommy Wirkola is no stranger to dark humor. The Norwegian filmmaker has already carved a place in the black hearts of horror fans everywhere with the dementedly wonderful humor in both Dead Snow films and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the latter of which has seen a steadily growing cult following over the years. His […]

Saban Films Acquires ‘The Exorcism of God’ Out of Fantastic Fest

September 28, 2021 Brad Miska Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2021, Movies, The Exorcism of God, Will Beinbrink

Saban Films is picking up rights to distribute The Exorcism of God, a horror drama from Alejandro Hidalgo (The House at the End of Time) that just had its premiere at the ongoing Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Meagan Navarro wasn’t a fan, writing that it “muddles its possession subversion.” “The feature, set in an […]

[Fantastic Fest Review] ‘The Exorcism of God’ Muddles Its Possession Subversion

September 27, 2021 Meagan Navarro Alejandro Hidalgo, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2021, Movies, Reviews, The Exorcism of God

In 2013, director Alejandro Hidalgo gave the haunted house a sci-fi twist in his feature debut, The House at the End of Time. His long-awaited follow-up, The Exorcism of God, attempts to shake up the overly familiar exorcism horror subgenre. Hidalgo pays tribute to the granddaddy of them all, The Exorcist, then works to retool the formula through the past […]