Tony D'Aquino's film cleverly uses fairy tale and Greek myth to turn a slasher flick's Final Girl into something bigger.
THE FURIES: Fairy Tales, Gore, and Greek Myth Transform the “Final Girl”
From 2019
[Fantastic Fest 2019] Modern Loneliness and Violent Female Competition in HOMEWRECKER
Precious Chong and Alex Essoe go head-to-head in a dark satire of gender roles and postmodern loneliness.
“The villainy you teach me”: Bullying, Power, and Toxicity in TEACHER
Adam Dick explores the consequences of bullying and victimhood through a teacher who'll go to dangerous lengths to protect vulnerable students.
The Terror of Modernity: Welsh Industrial Horrors & Sovereign Women in GWEN
William McGregor serves a double dose of history and feminist horror with a tale of the Industrial Revolution in Wales.
[Fantasia 2019] SONS OF DENMARK: The Extremes of Where We Are & Where We’re Headed
Ulaa Salim's film is a disturbing and shocking look at right-wing extremism— a necessary tale in 2019.
[Fantasia 2019] Michihito Fujii’s DAY AND NIGHT: Morality Under Capitalism
Michihito Fujii ruminates on how capitalism destroys good people, and whether revenge is just or simply salt in a perpetual wound.
[Fantasia 2019] Ironclad Women & Bourgeois Criminals in A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND
Sarah Bolger gives a fierce performance that subverts the typically patriarchal revenge tale
