Where is the American dream bred? In the heart or in the head? Director-Writer Ziyu Luo’s “American Daydream” is a classic ode to the idea of the American dream and our pursuit of it. Is the “American Dream” an unreachable goal, or something that we each have within us, personally? Recently having its world premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival, “American Daydream” is a brilliant beautiful short drama comedy that explores ideas about immigration, assimilation and Americanization.
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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.
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.