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…
Ikatan Darah
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Another good action movie. Good fights. Some amped-up bad guys. Plenty of blood. And boy, did these filmmakers love breaking furniture! One interesting…
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This is the other secret screening I attended. The world premiere of Gore Verbinski’s latest film (which I was not even aware of),…
The Ice Tower
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This felt very much like a French art house film. There was some story, but so much of the film was slow and…
Deathstalker
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This was a goofy but fun sword-and-sorcery adventure. A few unique things in it. Felt a little long. But I did enjoy it.…
Sisu: Road to Revenge
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | A marvelous action movie. A sequel, but no need to see the first one to get what's going on. Minimal dialog. None for…
Bugonia
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This was a secret screening I attended. I was delighted it turned out to be this film. I have a like/hate relationship with…
Bulk
| C | Fantastic Fest 2025 | The trailer says it is showing scenes selected randomly from the movie. And those scenes looked intriguing. From the science fiction concept of…
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…