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.
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Demons 2 (1986) [Synapse Films Limited Edition 4K]
Available on 4K and Blu-ray August 13th, 2024
Following on the footsteps of Demons (1985), this sequel takes place, mostly, in an apartment building where a woman celebrates her birthday and where the zombies are coming by way of television this time.
Demons (1985) [Synapse Films Limited Edition 4K]
Available on 4K and Blu-ray August 13th, 2024
Masked people distribute gold tickets to seemingly random folks in Italy for a mysterious film screening in an old theater. During the film, members of the audience become hungry for human flesh.
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.
Brave Citizen (2024) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
Deep down there’s a great movie within “Brave Citizen.” The South Korean film by Park jin-pyo has a great premise, and a great cause to fight for that could serve as a catalyst for an interesting superhero tale. Instead “Brave Citizen” is bogged down in so much exposition and sub-plots and commentary that is loses sight of its original intent. There’s no reason a movie like “Brave Citizen” should be so long, and I say that as someone that almost never cares about run time.
But Park jin-pyo and the writers take so long to get to the actual point that by the time we do get an idea what they’re aiming in the realm of superheroes meets bringing down the affluent, the movie has already worn out its welcome.