Tag Archives: Fantasia Fest 2021

Fantasia International Film Festival 2021 has had some really great films this year. I was lucky enough to catch Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw (read our review here) and fell in love with it. I adore stories of forbidden love. To celebrate the film playing the fest, I chatted with the writer/director …

One of my favorite films from Fantasia International Film Festival is Coming Home in the Dark. I recently interviewed Daniel Gillies (check it out – HERE) and we talked about this film a bit and damn he wasn’t wrong about this film being dark! The film wad directed by James …

I was truly fortunate to watch some truly incredible films for this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. But the one that really stood out to me and instantly became one of my top three of the entire year was Rob Jabbaz’s The Sadness. It started as one of my most …

Another great film that premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival was the horror thriller, Agnes. The film was directed by Mickey Reece as well as written by them and John Selvidge. The cast includes Chris Browning, Mary Buss, Sean Gunn, Ben Hall, Zandy Hartig, Jake Horowitz, Hayley McFarland, Molly C. …

The Fantasia International Film Festival delivered a variety of unique stories including the horror-comedy, Kratt. This film was directed and written by Rasmus Merivoo. It’s an Estonian exotic mix of horror and family film that stars Mari Lill, Nora Merivoo, Harri Merivoo, Elise Tekko, Roland Treima, and Ivo Uukkivi.   …

In films and television, child vampires are often depicted as willful, angry, and petulant. They illustrate an ongoing theme of the difficulties of an immature mind being trapped an eternally young body. But the new movie, All the Moons, directed by Igor Legarreta (When You No Longer Love Me), chooses …

Author/editor/Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies founder Kier-La Janisse’s (From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film, Warped and Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive) new documentary, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, is a fascinating, …

Recently, I had the opportunity to review a very interesting set of eight short films (one of my favorite genres!) for 2021’s Fantasia Fest in a shorts block called Things That Go Bump In The East. Chewing Gum (Chingum) Directed by Mihir Fadnavis and starring Ratnabali Bhattacharjee (Sold), Bandita Bora …

Director Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival 2021 on August 15 and 17 and is, hands down, one of my favorite films I’ve seen this year. The Last Thing Mary Saw is a period occult drama set in an isolated farmhouse in the …