A father and daughter move into a mansion for the winter months to maintain and keep it ready for its owners. Soon after their arrival, something odd starts to happen and each of them is affected differently.
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The Night is Young (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]
It’s not many movies that begin feeling like some kind of goofy fun romantic comedy and transforms in to a war concerning vampires. Patrick Rea is up for the challenge of delivering on a movie with a firm tongue in cheek that’s mostly viewed through the lens of a modern video camera. I’m not too sure how vampires appear on screen but that’s for the artist to decide on terms when it comes to on screen vampires. “The Night Is Young” is a pretty good mixing of genres and sub-genres, centering itself on a woman who is on the hunt for a new girlfriend.
The Darkside of Society (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]
There’s nothing I love more than a documentary about the conception of one of the most notorious cult classics ever made. Brian Yuzna’s 1989 horror satire is a gross, vile look at the amorality of the affluent. What I don’t like is a documentary that paints itself as a look at the making of a movie and is in reality conspiracy claptrap garbage sexual abuse, ritual child abuse, and sexual violence that has about two percent to do with Brian Yuzna’s movie.
There’s A Zombie Outside (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]
It should go without saying that I really wanted to love Michael Varrati’s “There’s a Zombie Outside”; somewhere deep down there’s a great film thar doesn’t pitch itself as one thing and is really something else. What I initially assumed was some kind of supernatural descent in to horror transforms in to what is basically “Adaptation” but for the horror sect. It’s an eighty minute horror themed drama about impostor syndrome, and trying to complete a product of love before it begins consuming our lives.
Fantasia 2024 Short Films Round-Up [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
As with many film festivals, Fantasia has a ton of short films playing every single year. Here is but a small selection of these:
Oddity (2024) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
Following the death of her twin sister, a psychic spends the night where her sister died to get to the bottom of her death.
Black Eyed Susan (2024) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
A man takes a job to help develop a sex doll that is meant for both pleasure and pain, a doll meant to help its future owner with issues they might have. This doll is so incredibly realistic that she leads him to question life and humanity.