This Scandinavian psychological horror examines grief with an unsettling plot about two parents attacked by a sideshow trio, over and over.
Category Archives: Fantasia Festival 2019
[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
[Fantasia 2019] Enter a Bermuda Love Triangle in HARPOON
Rob Grant’s pitch black horror-comedy is an intelligent evisceration of friendship, betrayal, and the male ego.
[Fantasia 2019] SATOR’s Hereditary Hauntings
Graham’s horror film is a perfectly dreadful view on the devastating hereditary legacy of mental illness.
Rural Magic Realism and Perpetual Adolescence in KNIVES AND SKIN
Jennifer Reeder uses magic realism to look at social dynamics and gender in a small town in the wake of tragedy
[Fantasia 2019] STARE Terrifies via Horror in Postmodern Folklore
Hirotaka Adachi digs in the J-horror claws with the help of modern folklore’s terrifying power
[Fantasia 2019] Discovering Life Beyond Death in ODE TO NOTHING
Dwein Baltazar tells a tale of life, of death, and how the two become terribly tangled when we’re unable to deal with the latter.
[Fantasia 2019] “No girl is exempt”: Biblical and Societal Misogyny in DARLIN’
Pollyanna McIntosh tears into the misogyny and sexism of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as society in general.
[Fantasia 2019] Women and Nature Disrespected in JADE’S ASYLUM
One woman’s struggle becomes the struggle of Mother Nature