The best premises are often the simplest. David Robert Mitchell’s new coming-of-age horror delves into that well-hewn territory of sin=death, but with a ‘catchy’ new twist. In IT FOLLOWS a curse that brings a nightmare vision slowly stalking to the victim spreads by sexual contact. Once the victim has sex with someone else, the curse is lifted, and taken on by next person. Wow! … [Read more...]
Pop-Ups Unblocked: Nacho Vigalondo’s Cyber Thriller OPEN WINDOWS — Bookmark It!
OPEN WINDOWS is a slick thriller that perfectly captures our paranoia in an age of information overload. In the classic Hitchcock suspense drama Rear Window, James Stewart witnesses a crime in a neighboring apartment. Nacho Vigalondo’s homage puts Elijah Wood in the bystander role but draws him into the felony itself, framing him as a peeping tom and then an assailant in an … [Read more...]
FANTASTIC FEST: CAN’T MISS PICKS and KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
I have no idea what I am getting into. I am about to attend my first FANTASTIC FEST. The last two years there was nowhere I’d rather have been but timing kept me strapped to a desk in service of another festival (I believe this is the week they finalize the program book... ugh, don’t miss that). Anyway, I usually spend the next 10 months tracking down the titles at … [Read more...]
‘ABCs OF DEATH 2’ TO OPEN FANTASTIC FEST 2014
"ABCs OF DEATH 2" BRINGS 26 NEW WAYS TO DIE FROM 26 NEW DIRECTORS ON VOD OCTOBER 2 THEATRICAL RELEASE OCTOBER 31 The horror anthology sequel will be the opening night world premiere film at Fantastic Fest on September 18. RELATED STORY: INTERVIEW ABCs OF DEATH FANTASTIC FEST 2013 Los Angeles, CA - Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - Magnet Releasing and Drafthouse Films bring a … [Read more...]
