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Movie Review: SLAXX (2020)

Ol’ Libby (Romane Denis) is happier than a clam in pigshit (of course as everyone knows, that is pretty damn happy) to be a new employee of an ultra-swank clothing store that is filled with plenty of those pretentious-ass types we all know and loathe. Anyway, one of those aforementioned asses steals a pair of jeans, puts them on, and before you can say “Ooh la la Sasson” she’s pinched in two by that ghoulish garment… and those putrid pants Hoover-up the red sauce left behind with the quickness! You see those sinister slacks are alive and hellbent on creating some serious employee turnover; and it’s up to Libby and her co-worker Shruti (Sehar Bhojani) to try and appease those terror trousers before the entire staff is devoured! Man-oh-man, Slaxx is a nice big slice of ridiculousness and it’s pretty damn glorious let me tell you cats n’ creeps! Director Elza Kephart, who also co-wrote this fright flick along with

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DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
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Nightmares ‘Come True’ On Digital This September Following Fantasia Premiere

From acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician Anthony Scott Burns (Our House, Holidays Father’s Day segment) and executive produced by cult filmmaker Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube, Splice and Netflix’s In the Tall Grass, comes a dark exploration into a world of nightmares, fears, and the monsters within in Come True. The first trailer has arrived and teases a dark, nightmare-inducing film filled with intensity and will leave you wanting to avoid falling asleep. Starring Julia Sarah Stone (Honey Bee) and Landon Liboiron (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare) the film is a Copperheart Entertainment and Angel Entertainment production. Burns wrote, directed, and shot the film, with music by Electric Youth (Drive) and Pilotpriest. In the film, high school student Sarah (Stone) is at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 11, 2020
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Fantasia 2020 Reveals Final Round of Features and Lifetime Achievement Award for John Carpenter in Massive Third Wave Announcement

As if Fantasia Film Festival’s first and second wave announcements about its 24th edition weren’t jaw-dropping enough, today the Montreal-based fest announced a huge new assortment of feature films, along with details on scheduled panels, talks, tributes, and special events. Following is the official press release from Fantasia, which presents its digital edition from August 20–September 2, 2020. JOHN CARPENTER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND MASTERCLASS Fantasia attendees lovingly recall that the Kentucky-raised writer/director/musician was one of the first major international guests to attend Fantasia for the fest’s third edition in 1998, when it launched the International Premiere of VAMPIRES. In conjunction with awarding him a Fantasia Lifetime Achievement Award, the festival will also present a masterclass from Carpenter, where he’ll discuss everything from his own festival origin story to his awe-inspiring career, touching on HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE THING, STARMAN, THEY LIVE, and many more. In addition, the fest will explore his recent resurgence as a

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Joseph Perry
Aug 7, 2020
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Fantasia International Film Festival Offers Up World-Class Horror and Genre Cinema in Its First Wave Announcement

The Fantasia International Film Festival, one of the world’s premiere genre film fests, is forging ahead with its first-ever virtual edition so that Canadian movie lovers can partake of the festival’s outstanding programs despite the current pandemic and the uncertainty it brings to the world. The official press release for Fantasia’s 24th edition follows. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year. The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August.

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Joseph Perry
Jun 10, 2020
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Don’t Miss The ‘King Cohen’ Q&A Tonight Featuring Larry Cohen And Steve Mitchell

Writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen, acclaimed master of horror Mick Garris, King Cohen director Steve Mitchell and celebrated screenwriter participate in a Q&A tonight July 23 at Laemmle NoHo 7! The event follows the 7pm screening of King Cohen at the theatre, located on Lankershim Blvd. Tickets are available here. Larry Cohen, best known for resourceful low-budget horror and thriller films that combine social commentary with prerequisite scares and welcome humor, is responsible for celluloid classics including Black Caesar, It’s Alive, Q: The Winged Serpent, and The Stuff. He was also a major player in the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, as well as a prominent Hollywood screenwriter (Phone Booth). King Cohen features interviews with such industry luminaries as Martin Scorsese, J.J Abrams, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, John Landis, Fred Williamson as well as Cohen himself. Cohen’s remarkable one-of-a-kind career, from 60’s TV series creator (Branded, The Invaders), to 70’s and 80’s independent film icon and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 23, 2018
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Tales From The Hood 2 Making Its World Premiere At Fantasia Along With Others

This year’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced the latest additions to their lineup. They have also announced that Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott’s highly anticipated Tales From the Hood 2 will be making its world debut at the festival which runs from July 12 to August 1st, along with other films. The full lineup of 130 films is to be announced on June 28th. TRIPPING THE FOG FANTASTIQUE: DANIEL ROBY’S DANS LA BRUME IS FANTASIA 2018’S OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM Fantasia is proud to announce that the festival’s 22nd edition will open with the North American Premiere of DANS LA BRUME (“Just a Breath Away”), a large-scale genre co-production between France and Canada, directed by celebrated Quebec filmmaker Daniel Roby (LOUIS CYR, WHITE SKIN), starring Romain Duris (MOOD INDIGO), Olga Kurylenko (QUANTUM OF SOLACE), and Fantine Harduin (HAPPY END). Paris is hit by an earthquake, then filled with a mysterious toxic gas that seems to come from below ground. A

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2018
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First Films Announced For Frontières Market At The Fantasia Film Festival

Frontières has now announced the first films that will be brought to this year’s market. Included on the list is George Romero Presents: Road of the Dead, from the Godfather of the zombie genre himself. Over the coming weeks more films will be added to the list and we will keep you updated. From the Press Release: Frontières is thrilled to announce a first wave of projects selected to participate in its international co-production market, taking place July 20-23 at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Notable project helmers include: the legendary George A. Romero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD), director/writer Blaine Thurier (LOW SELF-ESTEEM GIRL, indie rock’s THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS), producers Titus Kreyenberg (I AM NOT A WITCH), Caroline Piras (AUX YEUX DES VIVANTS – AMONG THE LIVING), and the team behind I SELL THE DEAD and the live radio drama TALES BEYOND THE PALE, Larry Fessenden & Glenn McQuaid with writer Clay McLeod Chapman (THE

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2017
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Demonic ‘Fantasia’ Segment To Become A Feature Film

The 2009 Disney musical masterpiece Fantasia, consisting of eight segments, combined animation and classical music. Now the third segment of the musical feature, titled ‘Night on Bald Mountain’, is set to become a feature film. In the segment we witness a winged demon, meant to represent the Devil, descend on a mountain town, raising the dead and other demons, who dance in celebration of their dark master. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the writers of ‘Dracula Untold’ and the up coming film ‘The Last Witch Hunter’, are set to write the script that will transform the animated section into a live action feature. At this time there is no word on when the film will be released.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 9, 2015

More from Fantasia

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Movie Review: SLAXX (2020)

Ol’ Libby (Romane Denis) is happier than a clam in pigshit (of course as everyone knows, that is pretty damn happy) to be a new employee of an ultra-swank clothing store that is filled with plenty of those pretentious-ass types we all know and loathe. Anyway, one of those aforementioned asses steals a pair of jeans, puts them on, and before you can say “Ooh la la Sasson” she’s pinched in two by that ghoulish garment… and those putrid pants Hoover-up the red sauce left behind with the quickness! You see those sinister slacks are alive and hellbent on creating some serious employee turnover; and it’s up to Libby and her co-worker Shruti (Sehar Bhojani) to try and appease those terror trousers before the entire staff is devoured! Man-oh-man, Slaxx is a nice big slice of ridiculousness and it’s pretty damn glorious let me tell you cats n’ creeps! Director Elza Kephart, who also co-wrote this fright flick along with

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 24, 2020
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Nightmares ‘Come True’ On Digital This September Following Fantasia Premiere

From acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician Anthony Scott Burns (Our House, Holidays Father’s Day segment) and executive produced by cult filmmaker Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube, Splice and Netflix’s In the Tall Grass, comes a dark exploration into a world of nightmares, fears, and the monsters within in Come True. The first trailer has arrived and teases a dark, nightmare-inducing film filled with intensity and will leave you wanting to avoid falling asleep. Starring Julia Sarah Stone (Honey Bee) and Landon Liboiron (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare) the film is a Copperheart Entertainment and Angel Entertainment production. Burns wrote, directed, and shot the film, with music by Electric Youth (Drive) and Pilotpriest. In the film, high school student Sarah (Stone) is at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 11, 2020
Horror Fuel

Fantasia 2020 Reveals Final Round of Features and Lifetime Achievement Award for John Carpenter in Massive Third Wave Announcement

As if Fantasia Film Festival’s first and second wave announcements about its 24th edition weren’t jaw-dropping enough, today the Montreal-based fest announced a huge new assortment of feature films, along with details on scheduled panels, talks, tributes, and special events. Following is the official press release from Fantasia, which presents its digital edition from August 20–September 2, 2020. JOHN CARPENTER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND MASTERCLASS Fantasia attendees lovingly recall that the Kentucky-raised writer/director/musician was one of the first major international guests to attend Fantasia for the fest’s third edition in 1998, when it launched the International Premiere of VAMPIRES. In conjunction with awarding him a Fantasia Lifetime Achievement Award, the festival will also present a masterclass from Carpenter, where he’ll discuss everything from his own festival origin story to his awe-inspiring career, touching on HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE THING, STARMAN, THEY LIVE, and many more. In addition, the fest will explore his recent resurgence as a

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Aug 7, 2020
Horror Fuel

Fantasia International Film Festival Offers Up World-Class Horror and Genre Cinema in Its First Wave Announcement

The Fantasia International Film Festival, one of the world’s premiere genre film fests, is forging ahead with its first-ever virtual edition so that Canadian movie lovers can partake of the festival’s outstanding programs despite the current pandemic and the uncertainty it brings to the world. The official press release for Fantasia’s 24th edition follows. The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year. The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August.

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Jun 10, 2020
Horror Fuel

Don’t Miss The ‘King Cohen’ Q&A Tonight Featuring Larry Cohen And Steve Mitchell

Writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen, acclaimed master of horror Mick Garris, King Cohen director Steve Mitchell and celebrated screenwriter participate in a Q&A tonight July 23 at Laemmle NoHo 7! The event follows the 7pm screening of King Cohen at the theatre, located on Lankershim Blvd. Tickets are available here. Larry Cohen, best known for resourceful low-budget horror and thriller films that combine social commentary with prerequisite scares and welcome humor, is responsible for celluloid classics including Black Caesar, It’s Alive, Q: The Winged Serpent, and The Stuff. He was also a major player in the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, as well as a prominent Hollywood screenwriter (Phone Booth). King Cohen features interviews with such industry luminaries as Martin Scorsese, J.J Abrams, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, John Landis, Fred Williamson as well as Cohen himself. Cohen’s remarkable one-of-a-kind career, from 60’s TV series creator (Branded, The Invaders), to 70’s and 80’s independent film icon and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 23, 2018
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Tales From The Hood 2 Making Its World Premiere At Fantasia Along With Others

This year’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced the latest additions to their lineup. They have also announced that Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott’s highly anticipated Tales From the Hood 2 will be making its world debut at the festival which runs from July 12 to August 1st, along with other films. The full lineup of 130 films is to be announced on June 28th. TRIPPING THE FOG FANTASTIQUE: DANIEL ROBY’S DANS LA BRUME IS FANTASIA 2018’S OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM Fantasia is proud to announce that the festival’s 22nd edition will open with the North American Premiere of DANS LA BRUME (“Just a Breath Away”), a large-scale genre co-production between France and Canada, directed by celebrated Quebec filmmaker Daniel Roby (LOUIS CYR, WHITE SKIN), starring Romain Duris (MOOD INDIGO), Olga Kurylenko (QUANTUM OF SOLACE), and Fantine Harduin (HAPPY END). Paris is hit by an earthquake, then filled with a mysterious toxic gas that seems to come from below ground. A

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2018
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First Films Announced For Frontières Market At The Fantasia Film Festival

Frontières has now announced the first films that will be brought to this year’s market. Included on the list is George Romero Presents: Road of the Dead, from the Godfather of the zombie genre himself. Over the coming weeks more films will be added to the list and we will keep you updated. From the Press Release: Frontières is thrilled to announce a first wave of projects selected to participate in its international co-production market, taking place July 20-23 at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Notable project helmers include: the legendary George A. Romero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD), director/writer Blaine Thurier (LOW SELF-ESTEEM GIRL, indie rock’s THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS), producers Titus Kreyenberg (I AM NOT A WITCH), Caroline Piras (AUX YEUX DES VIVANTS – AMONG THE LIVING), and the team behind I SELL THE DEAD and the live radio drama TALES BEYOND THE PALE, Larry Fessenden & Glenn McQuaid with writer Clay McLeod Chapman (THE

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2017
Horror Fuel

Demonic ‘Fantasia’ Segment To Become A Feature Film

The 2009 Disney musical masterpiece Fantasia, consisting of eight segments, combined animation and classical music. Now the third segment of the musical feature, titled ‘Night on Bald Mountain’, is set to become a feature film. In the segment we witness a winged demon, meant to represent the Devil, descend on a mountain town, raising the dead and other demons, who dance in celebration of their dark master. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the writers of ‘Dracula Untold’ and the up coming film ‘The Last Witch Hunter’, are set to write the script that will transform the animated section into a live action feature. At this time there is no word on when the film will be released.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 9, 2015