LITTLE DOORS, written and directed by Anthony Oberbeck, is my favorite of the Fantastic Fest films I had  a chance to watch, and it’s the one that’s hardest to write about. 

Though horror is usually my thing, one sci-fi trope I love is time travel, and, like any fan of time travel, I've asked the question, "Would you go back in time and kill Hitler?"

JOLLYFACE, written and directed by Justin Floyd says big things about race and white privilege in a big way. 

KYLGOR IN THE GRISLY ABYSS, directed by Mason Newton DeRushie, is a sword and sorcery horror which follows Kylgor the Conqueror and his barbarian band who successfully seek vengeance by beheading the ...

DEATH HAS NO MASTER, written and directed by Jorge Thielen Armand, is grim - a stark portrait of colonialism in Venezuela.

Listening to Tales from the Territory narrated by the author Travis Baldree was like catching up with old friends. I love settling into some cozy fantasy for my horror reading palate cleanser, and fiv...

It has all the gorgeous grainy film, cheap practical effects, and discordant music you expect, but it’s also quietly clever and full of obvious love for the slasher genre. 

NO REST FOR THE WICKED, directed by Kasper Kalle, could almost be a romantic comedy except for all the folk horror and gothic atmosphere, including a sea, darkness, and fog that almost deserve their o...

Every time I read something written by Eric LaRocca, from short story to novel, I wonder what I've gotten myself into.

VERTIGINOUS, directed by Quentin Dupieux, is basically an hour long animation of the conversations we all have had after watching certain Star Trek episodes or The Matrix, and there’s something about ...

I listened to the audiobook of Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist (narrated perfectly by Mhairi Morrison) several weeks ago as we moved our household 250 miles south to Atlanta which meant I was in the perfe...

I wasn’t sure what to expect from an Irish-Australian kung fu comedy, but KUNG FU DEADLY, directed by Fergal Costello, was part buddy comedy, part wuxia, and all fun.

By the time IT was released when I was a budding 13 year old horror writer, I was a die-hard Stephen King fan, as only a horror lover who grew up in the ‘80’s with a tiny town library could be - whi...

For all the blood and viscera and violence, it is a beautifully shot film which may make it worth a watch if you can stomach it and don’t mind that it is just nihilism incarnate.

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Horror movies and shorts based around or prominently featuring ice cream. Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man is on this list for completion sake but I do not condone his behavior.

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Up next in our Fantasia 2026 coverage is Sarah Stubbs’ review of Kasper Kolle’s “No Rest For The Wicked,” which debuted at the festival on July 22, 2026!

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I appreciate that editor KC Grifant admitted she was not a fan of westerns growing up because same, and for the same reason; all I saw onscreen were men having adventures, and I wanted to see women do...

This was my favorite kind of thriller, one where I didn't know what was going to happen next, where I literally held my breath several times, and with a protagonist who is complicated and real, but th...

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I haven't been on a rollercoaster since I was diagnosed with sciatica in my early 20s when stabbing pains hit me on The Big Bad Wolf in Busch Gardens Williamsburg, but reading Chuck Tingle's Fabulous ...

This Wretched Beauty was beautifully written but it was so full of angst and heartache as Dorian endures all the pains of not fully embracing who they are but feeling outcast from their family and soc...

Alt: Have A Nice Death Vacation

The synopsis - and even the title font choice - indicate that Obstetrix is near future science fiction, but it did not feel like that. Near future (all too near), maybe, but science fiction - only in ...

17 likes, 2 comments - candikat13 on June 6, 2026: "What does a horror writer and fan do when they can’t attend @stokercon_official in Pittsburgh? Squeeze in as many live streams and prerecorded panel...

Marion is a modern reimagining of Psycho - at least the first part up to the point that Norman attacks Marion and the concept of his relationship with his mother - but this time, Marion fights back an...