Carrie (TV series)
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2026 | They showed the first two episodes of Mike Flanagan's remake of Stephen King's Carrie as a TV series. This is going to be…
Play House
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2026 } Kudos to this husband/wife creative team. They won the Fantastic Pitches competition at last year's festival, which earned them $100,000 towards filming, and…
Ghost in the Cell
| B | Fantastic Fest 2026 | Excellent mix of comedy and kills in this horror flick. Horror-wise: You see some bits of most of the kills—those are already interesting.…
The Glorious Dead
| B | Fantastic Fest 2026 | As I was going through the list of movies, I saw this title and its associated photo (the one above) and immediately asked…
Resident Evil
| A | Fantastic Fest 2026 | Marvelous way to start Fantastic Fest! I loved this movie! Zach Cregger sure knows how to direct a movie. Very stylish, very suspenseful,…
Whistle
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Good horror film with a unique hook that allowed for some creatively visual deaths. Written by Austinite Owen Egerton (who unfortunately could not…
Theater Is Dead
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Fun movie. The first 2/3 was interesting, but I really didn’t know what it was building to. Then suddenly the full set of…
Don’t Leave the Kids Alone
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This is not an over-the-top horror movie—half of the “horror” is the two kids terrorizing each other the way young brothers do. But…
Marama
| C | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This was billed as a gothic horror film. The emphasis was on the gothic part (i.e., low key, slow build), and on history.…
Obsession
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This was a very affecting film… I’m sure some of my reaction was that innate male fear of a crazy girlfriend. Not that…