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.…
Kung Fu Deadly
| B | Fantastic Fest 2026 | My first Irish kung fu movie! Not to worry, this was not a bunch of pasty-faced white guys throwing roundhouse kicks—most of the…
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…
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…
Silence
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Interesting, stylish take on a vampire movie. A lot of talking and debating, surprisingly—often about the scarcity of blood supply during some epidemics…
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…
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…
The Holy Boy
| A | Fantastic Fest 2025 | I am stunned by the vision of this director/co-writer. The script was fascinating. It kept “unfolding,” revealing layer after layer. It kept shifting…
Haunted Heist
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Not a scary comedy, but a very funny horror movie. As you might expect from Lil Rel Howery. Even though he did not…