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Brian Salisbury is back with another movie so bad, it’s also good. This time he dips into the catalogue of Roger Corman and unearths a galactically-bound remake of The Seven Samurai.

Chad reports from the Peace Ambassador Center as 100 diplomatic visas are being issued to the first wave of American Visitors, with Anna getting the 1st, but not everyone agrees with the decision.

We wish we could say that Brian Salisbury is a film school reject because he was caught night putting with the dean’s daughter or because he drank his weight in scotch and accidentally burned down an archives building. But alas, it is because he has a well-documented addiction to cinema crapiteé. Behold, his new creative outlet.

Let me start by commending our rejects who regularly review television shows; not easy work. Especially with a show such as this one…

With the Saw films firmly on the ice flow of sequels toward apocalypse, the question I keep coming back to is, “where are horror films going to go from here?” Enter the attempt of The Fourth Kind.

Brian Salisbury goes into Robert Zemeckis’ highly animated retelling of A Christmas Carol with high hopes. He emerges however, with less than high praise.

An image of Anna, the leader of the V’s, is projected worldwide as she speaks about everyone joining together and no longer being divided by country or separated by fear. That’s where it begins…

With as lightening-fast as Marko Zaror is, we were incredibly lucky to catch him on camera for an exclusive Fantastic Fest interview. We assume the master martial artist and Mandrill director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza were lured in by the promise of free booze and shag carpet on the walls.

If there is one thing movie-going audiences have been saturated with of late it is vampire films. Luckily, some of them have turned out to be pretty damn good…

It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.

If there is any kind of common thread in the work of Takashi Miike, it would have to be that they are all either just a little or, in some cases, immensely loony. Enter Yatterman, a superhero’s tale…

Kaifeck Murder is a film no one was talking about and I therefore had no concept of what to expect. What I got was a great little film that I may never see again; hopefully I’m wrong.

The much talked about final secret screening of this year’s Fantastic Fest was said to be epic, with a larger-than-life guest in the house to do Q&A. Some said Avatar, but they were wrong. In the end, it was Dolph Lundgren that delighted the Drafthouse crowds…

Stingray Sam technically does fit the sci-fi theme, but had I seen it before it was announced as part of this year’s slate, I never would have guessed that it would play Fantastic Fest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…