Fantasia 2021
The Haunted House in Martyrs Lane is Empty [Fantasia 2021 Review]
With a title like Martyrs Lane, you might be expecting something relentlessly gory, but Ruth Platt’s third feature doesn’t actually take place in the eponymous spot. Rather, it’s ...
#Blue_Whale is Internet Horror Lite [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Internet horror continues to be big business, but for every Unfriended or The Den, there’s a Friend Request. Russian offering #Blue_Whale lands somewhere in between the two. Not convincingly cr...
Midnight is Next-Level Horror [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Deaf protagonists are a curiously untapped market in horror. The best example of their use is arguably in Mike Flanagan’s Hush, which sees a masked killer descend upon a home occupied by a deaf...
Hellbender is a Wonderfully Twisted Family Folk Horror [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Hellbender is arguably the most anticipated movie playing Fantasia 2021, picked up by Shudder even before it premiered, and for good reason as it turns out. We’ve been so preconditioned not to ...
Frank and Zed is a Gloriously Gory Puppet Show [Fantasia 2021 Review]
There’s a recurring mini challenge on Ru Paul’s Drag Race in which the queens are tasked with making puppets of each other and then using them in a performance, typically while making in...
Tin Can is a Phantasmagorical Treat for the Senses [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Claustrophobia is something most people struggle with, even if they don’t really think they do – nobody is comfortable being trapped in a small space for hours on end. Suffering through ...
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes [Fantasia 2021 Review]
Most time travel movies get bogged down trying to over-explain themselves, but Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes sidesteps that issue by making its setup so intensely complicated it’s stupid even...
The 12 Day Tale of the Monster That Died in 8 [Fantasia 2021 Review]
The COVID-19 pandemic is still highly topical, and likely will be for a long time to come, so it’s not surprising we’re seeing more and more films either set during it or directly, and i...