Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier, the director of the unusually and undeservedly lauded Blue Ruin, concocts a second feature where hot punk rock meets cold blooded murder.
Horror
Hot Docs 2016: ‘Fear Itself’ and ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’
Fear Itself (DIR. Charlie Lyne) By: Shahbaz Khayambashi What is the source of fear and why does it excite us when we are seated in a dark room, watching awful things happen to photogenic strangers? This is not the question that documentarian Charlie Lyne attempts to answer in his latest work Fear Itself, a deeply personal study of the horror genre told through the same metatextual and introspective methodology that previously manifested itself in directorial efforts like Beyond…
Canadian Film Festival ’16: Dead Rush
The arrival of Dead Rush’s world premiere at this year’s Canadian Film Fest came at a coincidental time. On April 8, Ilya Naishuller’s Hardcore Henry hits theatres. Both films are very good genre flicks that position the viewer in the lead character’s perspective. As far as which film has a cleaner landing though, Dead Rush has the edge.
Hostile
After watching younger filmmakers at work, viewers hope to walk away with a bit of pep in their step feeling hopeful about the future of movies. I knew going into Hostile that the horror film was written/directed by teenager Nathan Ambrosioni, and I did leave feeling elated. Not only that, but Hostile was also really good.
Sicilian Vampire
Just like staring at an inkblot, “random” and “strange” are the first words that spring to mind if I had to describe Frank D’Angelo’s Sicilian Vampire to movie goers. However, the oddities give D’Angelo’s film a fever dream allure – it’s entertaining one way or another.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Burr Steers’ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies arrives at an awkward time for horror mash-ups.
JeruZalem
Most of what Yoav and Doron Paz offer movie goers in their horror film JeruZalem feels re-gifted. We’ve seen this sort of panicked science fiction in films before – from tent-pole thrillers like Cloverfield to foreign imports like [REC]. While that may sound like the “jaded critic” side transforming me as one of the film’s demons would, I feel like I have a legitimate argument.