In this post-apocalyptic take on The Beguiled, a toxin called The Shred gets in the air and erases parts of people’s memories, giving them symptoms resembling dementia. In the midst of this, a family lives in a glasshouse, doing everything the mother believes necessary to survives. That is until a stranger comes into their lives and between the two sisters.
Tag Archives: Foreign
Brain Freeze (2020) [Fantasia Film Festival 2021]
Director Julien Knafo’s zombie horror comedy is a movie that teeters back and forth between what it’s trying to say and what it’s trying to appeal to. It identifies itself as a horror comedy and injects a lot of silliness involving zombie carnage, body horror, and even some poor animals, but mid-way it stops being funny and tries to convey some kind of social commentary. What the commentary is, exactly, is beyond me, but it never improves on the overlong, tedious exploits.
Raging Fire (Nou Fo) (2021) [Fantasia Film Festival 2021]
When a gang attacks a group of cops during an operation, a good cop decides to do everything he can to get the members of its gang even though he had been kept out of the operation and may be more connected to the gang than he originally thinks.
Kandisha (2020)
Three best friends spend their summer nights doing graffiti art and telling each other scary stories. After one of them is assaulted, the spirit from one of the stories comes to life and seeks revenge.
Rock, Paper and Scissors (2021)
Three siblings are reunited after their father dies. As one of them seems to not want to stick around, the other two find ways of making her.
Enfant Terrible (2020)
German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a major figure in New Wave Cinema, this film explores his life, his work, and his way of being.
High Ground (2020)
A young Aboriginal man works with a former soldier to save his family and land from the newly arrived British while tracking down a dangerous criminal.