“If it gets too real, you can always turn it off.” It has taken me an entire week to even think about writing a review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: a film that has been crawlin’ around in my brain and filling it with colorful candy wrappers, gigantic blood fountains, fiery sapphic chemistry,
The 2026 Fantastic Fest 21st edition will present 35 World Premieres, 21 International and North American Premieres, and 14 U.S. Premieres featuring the very best in genre from across the globe, alongside famous events and surprise guests. Celebrate all things spooky at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX, from September 17th-24th, 2026. The
In The Serpent’s Skin, we follow Anna (Alexandra McVicker) who leaves her small, transphobic hometown to start a new life in the city with her sister. When Anna is able to repel a would-be attacker with witchy abilities, her powers reach out across the veil to Gen (Avalon Fast – the writer/director of Camp, one
Part frontier Western, part plague parable, and part supernatural fable, Ned Crowley’s Killing Faith is a haunting ride through the badlands of 1849 Arizona. Guy Pearce delivers a riveting performance as a once-respected physician turned ether-addicted husk, who reluctantly agrees to escort former slave Sara (DeWanda Wise) and her young daughter Faith (Emily Ford) across
Creepy dolls, buzzing flies, and a broken music box welcome us into the world of DOLLY, setting the stage for one of 2025’s bloodiest and most unsettling horror offerings. Director Rod Blackhurst leans into classic Grindhouse with a gritty aesthetic and explicit gore, at the same time twisting that nostalgia into something disturbingly fresh. Chase
“There’s something evil here isn’t there?” After a series of tragic events, Emily decides to take a summer job as a counselor at a Christian kids camp. Her initial worries about not fitting in because she has no faith melt away quickly, as she almost immediately bonds with the other women counselors. As they drink,
“Put your hands together for Lord Grayson!” Hammer Horror Classics meet IDLE HANDS in the campy queer melodrama THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR – a film that’s outrageous, hilarious, and even strangely affecting. The film kicks off in a club, where the flamboyant Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) performs as a one-man band on keyboards before
Somewhere in-between 80’s teen movies and later serial killer epics lies BAD HAIRCUT: a delirious horror-comedy that takes the barber’s chair to absurd heights. In order to help boost his confidence, Billy’s friends take him to the local barber shop run by Mick for “the best haircut in town.” Armed with “Mr Snips,” Mick starts
A fever dream of blood, sex, and pastel nightmares, Eduardo Casanova’s SILENCIO isa hallucinatory vision where starving immortals wander through centuries, feeding on scraps of human blood while bickering, fucking, and mourning in equal measure. The film opens with a woman placing a nude Polaroid into a museum exhibit, before taking us back to the
apophenia / a-pə-ˈfē-nē-ə / noun the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things. Opening with a man watching what looks like porn, we slowly realize the video is of his girlfriend having sex with someone else. After he rage takes over and he “accidentally” shoots her, we’re introduced to
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