Category: fantastic fest

Have you ever been good at something? No, I mean really good. I do not believe I have, but I imagine that it is a great feeling. Tim McVey was once great at something. McVey was the Nibbler Champion. For...

Can Evernol’s Baskin begins with a nightmare and ends in a relentless hell on Earth. The trip there is fun and thrilling; the destination is tedious. Shortly after the opening nightmare of Baskin ends, we see five police officers taking a...

Liza (Mónica Balsai) is a beleaguered nurse caring for the aging and bed-bound wife of a Japanese ambassador. On her thirtieth birthday, she asks for the day off. Absolutely certain that she will find her true love at the local...

High-Rise starts with voice-over by Tom Hiddleston’s Dr. Robert Laing. He is discussing, rather matter-of-factly, the current conditions inside his monolithic apartment complex. His conclusion, as he picks through mounds of rubbish and roasts a dog’s leg on a spit,...

From its opening establishing shot of a fog-filled New York City skyline, Mickey Keating’s Darling signifies itself as an inventive horror film. Lauren Ashley Carter plays the eponymous character, hired to house sit an old house. Sean Young (who is...

In Norway, there are many impressive and breath-taking vistas: mountains; valleys; complex coastlines abutted by precipitously tall cliffs; narrow sea inlets surrounded by steep cliffs. I have never considered the effects of erosion on such cliffs, and the people living...