Fantastic Fest 2009: Live from Austin

Reviews:

Click the orange links below to read the reviews as they are posted.

Antichrist A Town Called Panic The Bare Breasted Countess
Breathless Bronson Buratino, Son of Pinocchio
The Children Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Clive Barker's Dread
Crazy Racer Cropsey Daybreakers
Dirty Mind District 13: Ultimatum Doghouse
Duress Fireball First Squad
Fish Story Gentlement Broncos Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio
Hard Revenge Milly & Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle House (Hausu) House of the Devil
Human Centipede Journey to Saturn K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces
Kaifeck Murder Kamagawa Horumo - Battle League in Kyoto Kenny Begins
Krabat The Legend is Alive Love Exposure
Macabre Mandrill Merantau
Metropia Morphine Ninja Assassin
Paranormal Activity Private Eye Rampage
REC 2 The Revenant Salvage
Robogeisha (Secret Screening) The Men Who Stare at Goats (Secret Screening) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Secret Screening)
A Serious Man (Secret Screening) Secret Screening #5 Smash Cut
S&M Hunter Solomon Kane Stingray Sam
Succubis Survival of the Dead Sweet Karma
Terribly Happy Tokyo Onlypics 2008 Toy Story 1 & 2 3D Double Feature
Trick 'r Treat Truffe Under the Mountain
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl Van Diemen's Land Venus in Furs
Yatterman Yesterday Zombieland

 

Live Coverage:


A Town Called Panic Trailer: Insanity Reigns!

A Town Called Panic Trailer: Insanity Reigns!

If Fantastic Fest is going to be credited for starting this year’s great cinema meme (Chaos Reigns), then it must also take credit for launching A Town Called Panic into the spotlight. This wild little film did win the Audience Awards, after all.

By Neil Miller on November 17, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Interview: Ride with ‘Broncos’ Author Dr. Ronald Chevalier

Fantastic Fest Interview: Ride with ‘Broncos’ Author Dr. Ronald Chevalier

We managed to sit down with Dr. Chevalier to talk Gentlemen Broncos, being a pompous asshole, and the future of science fiction novellas.

By Adam Sweeney on November 3, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Interview: Ride with ‘Broncos’ Star Jemaine Clement

Fantastic Fest Interview: Ride with ‘Broncos’ Star Jemaine Clement

We managed to sit down with Jemaine Clement to talk Gentlemen Broncos, playing a pompous asshole, and the future of Rock Band: Flight of the Conchords Edition.

By Adam Sweeney on November 3, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: First Squad

Fantastic Fest Review: First Squad

You read that title right. We’ve covered so many films from Fantastic Fest that even now, a month after the fest has closed its doors, we’re still pumping out reviews.

By Neil Miller on November 2, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Under the Mountain

Fantastic Fest Review: Under the Mountain

Twins! Psychic powers! Sam Neill! Alien neighbors! Gingers! How will they put them all together into one film?

By Rob Hunter on October 27, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

Fantastic Fest Review: Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

Darren and Steve are best friends despite different upbringings and personalities. They both attend a mysterious Freak Show populated by fantastical beings, and Darren joins the ranks of the undead by becoming a vampire, but Steve will have his own, darker journey to go through.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 26, 2009 | Comments

Exclusive: Team ‘Mandrill’ Teaches Us How to Be a Super Spy

Exclusive: Team ‘Mandrill’ Teaches Us How to Be a Super Spy

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.

By Brian Salisbury on October 19, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Krabat

Fantastic Fest Review: Krabat

Magic, ravens, forbidden love, an evil flour mill, and a retarded Baldwin brother! (There aren’t actually any Baldwins in this film).

By Rob Hunter on October 15, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Dirty Mind

Fantastic Fest Review: Dirty Mind

The lowest on the totem pole, Diego, is laughed at on the job working with his confident, stunt man older brother Cisse. He’s shy, struggles with a need for love he can’t fulfill, and is generally walked upon by everyone until an accident sees him waking up in the hospital as Tony T – a brand new personality that comes complete with cockiness and catch-phrases.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 14, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Salvage

Fantastic Fest Review: Salvage

A strange cargo container washes ashore near an idyllic cul-de-sac in Liverpool, and with it comes a strange killer and the full force of the black ops who take over the neighborhood. With a monster lurking in the shadows and the automatic-weapons-wielding force lurking in plain sight outside, there’s no safe haven for the residents, but Beth is desperate to find her daughter and take her to safety.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 13, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Truffe

Fantastic Fest Review: Truffe

After that damned Global Warming has messed up the environment, it’s also created a massive boon in truffles in Montreal where a new business has taken over. Unfortunately, supplies are finite, and a new company has moved in under the guise of a pelt-selling shop that, of course, is more intent on sending out furry mind-control drones to take over the wealth of the truffle-hunting biz. On the outskirts of the war is freelance truffle-miner Charles who has to struggle to make a living and not get choked by a muppet.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 12, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Fireball

Fantastic Fest Review: Fireball

Tai gets out of jail thanks to bail money from his twin brother who is sadly in a coma from all the money-raising/underground mob activity he’s engaged in. So, Tai goes underground and joins a Fireball team as well to avenge his brother’s coma.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 12, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Private Eye

Fantastic Fest Review: Private Eye

Murder, detectives, politics, gadgetry, circus workers, and at least one spectacular foot chase in a period piece!

By Rob Hunter on October 11, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Breathless

Fantastic Fest Review: Breathless

Abuse, beat downs, unexpected friendships, emotional upheaval, more beat downs, simulated sexual thrusts against a child, drama, and even more beat downs!

By Rob Hunter on October 11, 2009 | Comments

Exclusive: ‘Zombieland’ Writers Talk Killing the Undead and Fighting the Moon

Exclusive: ‘Zombieland’ Writers Talk Killing the Undead and Fighting the Moon

In which two men, one having never seen a zombie film and the other a casual fan of the genre, create the best zombie flick since Shaun of the Dead. And in which, I get the scoop of the century on who will be playing Venom.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 9, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: District 13: Ultimatum

Fantastic Fest Review: District 13: Ultimatum

Speed, agility, violence: Parkour, it’s not just something that gets parodied on The Office, it’s the way of the French. Come check in as Neil goes back to District B13 for another ass-kicking round of awesome.

By Neil Miller on October 8, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Kenny Begins

Fantastic Fest Review: Kenny Begins

In the weird column, I would like to enter Kenny Begins. It is quite simply the weirdest, most insane and possibly most deviously enjoyable films that I’ve seen here at Fantastic Fest. It’s Swedish. And that’s just the beginning.

By Neil Miller on October 8, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: Daybreakers

Fantastic Fest Review: Daybreakers

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…

By Brian Salisbury on October 8, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: The House of the Devil

Fantastic Fest Review: The House of the Devil

If House of the Devil was put in a stack of horror flicks from 1979-1984, no one on the planet would ever realize it was made thirty years after the fact.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 7, 2009 | Comments

Fantastic Fest Review: The Revenant

Fantastic Fest Review: The Revenant

Iraq War Veteran Bart comes home in a body bag, but he doesn’t stay in the ground for long. He comes to his best friend Joey for help and they both enter a life of finding human blood so that Bart can avoid decomposing.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 7, 2009 | Comments