Welcome to the Film School Rejects Archive

Luckily we had a list of the winners sent to us because we didn’t remember all the names. Or where our pants went.

Uwe Boll has done many things. And in the eyes of many movie fans around the world, one of them is not making a good film. And with his latest opus, the wanton violence-heavy shoot ‘em up Rampage, Boll still probably won’t have any of those folks convinced that he’s anything more than they already think him to be.

An orphan named Raizo, raised and trained by an ancient ninja clan, cuts a bunch of heads off while an investigator from Europol, Mika tracks down the group in connection with several high-ranking assassinations.

Lars von Trier’s new film is about a dysfunctional couple.

A hitman who kicks unprecedented amounts of ass gets an assignment to kill the man who he believes killed his parents. The plot thickens when he falls for the man’s daughter and must decide between leaving her an orphan or forgoing the revenge he’s waited for his whole life.

This adaptation of a short story by Clive Barker contains a compelling concept that deserved better treatment.

Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as a server at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater carrying $5 shakes, black-bean burgers, and root-beer flavored cookies to happy, cinema-loving patrons. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week… Away We Go, Monsters vs Aliens, The Hills Run Red, and more!

If you follow me on Twitter (@rejects), then it is likely that you’ve seen this new Antichrist poster, as I tweeted about it a few days back. And as luck would have it, we received a hi-res version for the web late last night.

Murder, revenge, swordplay, martial arts, body modification, shadow puppets, and flaming babies!

Wow that’s a strong statement. Let’s see how offensive this gets.

For whatever reason, underselling synopses in the guide perhaps, there are films that we see either because it fills an otherwise empty time slot or because some of us still cling to the absurd idea of seeing everything at Fantastic Fest. For me, the film I was assigned to cover in which I had the least amount of interest was Duress.

Don, Betty, and Peggy all wake up in different places and their stories are told non-linearly: Don gets frustrated with Sterling Cooper’s offer of a three-year contract; Betty gets to meet with the government advisor she met at Roger’s yard party…

The UK horror flick gives a nice fresh tweak to a tired and all-too-familiar horror trope.

Seeing a George Romero film, especially a brand new one, on the big screen has been on my list of things I must experience for a long time and last night, I am pleased to say I got that opportunity. Prepare yourselves for Survival of the Dead!

On this particular night of Fantastic Fest, at this particular secret screening, we witnessed something spectacular in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

A couple of clumsy hitmen for hire get tangled in a drug smuggling operation with multiple parties all working against each other. Also, a balding guy with an energy drink company has a ton of guys dressed up as superman. Because it makes sense that way.

It was once again Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which dominated the weekend box office, with all the new releases Surrogates, Fame, Pandorum and all the rest coming up well short

When Tokyo is besieged by a fearsome master criminal, the unstoppable thief known only as The Fiend With Twenty Faces, a small community must rally together to train a warrior who is able to defeat him.

Did you know that there are animated films from Denmark? Did you also know that they include beer, nudity and gross sexual advances in their cartoons? Neither did I…

After attending a writing camp, Benjamin hopes that his science fiction novella will win the top prize being judged on by his idol Ronald Chevaliar, but the pompous has-been ends up plagiarizing it and earning a best-seller.

Fourteen years after Toy Story ushered in a new generation of computer generated animation, this celebrated first feature film of Pixar is still leaps and bounds ahead of so many of today’s animated fair.

Robots, geishas, shenanigans, sexy tengu girls, transformers, buildings that bleed, and ass swords!

Prisoners, escapes, tasmanian devils (of the human variety), murder, vegetation, and flesh-eating!

In 2012, with a meteor going to destroy Earth, three men spend the afternoon inside a record store listening to an obscure band. As the band’s story is told, it shows how their song might save the planet from the oncoming apocalypse.

Bob Wilton is having a mid-life crisis of the marital strife brand so he sets out to prove himself as a journalist by leaving his small desk at the local newspaper and heading for Iraq. There, he runs into Lyn Cassady a man claiming to have been trained as a psychic spy by the U.S. military.

For the first time on video, you can see with your own eyes as I wander around a parking lot and sit around in a bowling alley with a director who has the skills to become the next major franchise helmer.

Sweet Karma is the story of a gorgeous, mute girl from Russia whose sister gets lured into the world of sex trafficking. That’s certainly a start…

This Indonesian horror flick/gorefest stays reliably within the comfortable realm of predictability, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Coming off of the sealed-off apartment of REC, the story begins mere moments after the last film ends as a S.W.A.T. team prepares to enter the building with a mysterious man from the Health Department. What they find is the truth behind what’s been going on and, of course, a ton of still-starving victims of the virus chomping at the bit for human flesh.

One of Fantastic Fest’s best surprises has US distribution and a release date.