Director Yeva Strielnikova’s “Stay Online” is literally a digital thriller for the modern age, and it’s never been more relevant a commentary on the importance of the internet than before. The digital thriller has become something of a niche sub-genre, and “Stay Online” practices that formula, but rather than a horror movie, implements the device as a means of exploring a modern war unfolding before our eyes. America has managed to stay embroiled in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia through various social outlets. One of the most important facets has been Tik Tok, which has dispensed unfiltered information before our eyes.
Category Archives: Fantasia Film Festival
Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]
According to David Paulides, the author of the Missing 411 books, he estimates that there are over 1,600 unexplained disappearances in North American National Parks. In “Lovely, Dark and Deep,” director Teresa Sutherland offers up one of the more complex and haunting supernatural thrillers of the year, all set within the confines of a national park. What makes “Lovely, Dark and Deep” so haunting is that director Sutherland sets the entirety of her film within a national forest, all of which seems so suffocating and all consuming from the moment character Lennon drives in to its threshold.
Blackout (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]
I think when it’s time for distribution that audiences (especially long time fans) might just connect with what director Larry Fessenden puts down here. As for me, it lost me after the blood soaked prologue. Like most film outputs from Fessenden, “Blackout” suffers from a lot of sub-plots that are either left dangling or abruptly closed, all while never quite deciding on a tone. Is “Blackout” a horror drama, just a drama, or a drama comedy that happens to have a werewolf?
Six Films We’re Looking Forward to for Fantasia Fest 2023 [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]
Once again Cinema Crazed has the honor of covering Fantasia Film Festival, and we’re getting in our choices for movies we’re looking forward to seeing. Every year we try to cover as many films as possible, and every year we accumulate a list of movies that we’re anxious to seek out in the festival. Fantasia has already released a list of their first and second waves and we compiled a list of five movies that caught our attention the most.
This year Fantasia runs from July 20th to August 9th at Montreal!
Fantasia 2022 Wrap-Up
Mercenaries from Hong Kong (1982) [Fantasia 2022]
A mysterious and powerful woman hires a man and his band of mercenaries to go into Cambodia, find her father’s killer, and bring him back to her.