Fantasia 2010

Starring Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic Directed by Srdjan Spasojevic Distributed by Invincible Pictures

The final Friday of Fantasia 2010 brought us one of the highlights of this year’s festival: director Christopher (Creep) Smith’s necromancer plague drama Black Death. Playing as the perfect accompaniment to Ken Russell’s The Devils, Black Death is a very subdued and naturalistic take on pestilence and witchcraft.

Reviewed by Paul McCannibal Starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Haouten, David Warner, Kimberly Nixon Directed by Christopher Smith

Reviewed by Pierre-Wolf Starring Cindy Sampson, Aaron Ashmore, Meghan Heffern Directed by Jon Knautz

Reviewed by Evil Andy Starring Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, Tiffany Shepis Directed by The Butcher Brothers

The Shrine, which is written and directed by Jon (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer) Knautz and stars Jack Brooks himself, Trevor Matthews, along with Meghan Heffern, Aaron Ashmore, and Cindy Sampson, has a new one sheet and while I'm liking it, I don't really know what it is I'm looking at.

Reviewed by Paul McCannibal Starring Yolande Moreau, Émilie Dequenne, Eric Godon, Philippe Nahon Directed by Franck Richard

Reviewed by Evil Andy Starring Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Nick Ashy Holden Directed by Simon Rumley

Reviewed by Paul McCannibal Directed by Dennison Ramalho Are you ready to see a viciously conceived and masterfully executed depiction of a brutally ugly side of the world?

As we wrap up the second full week of Fantasia, I can’t help but marvel at how much more than a simple film festival it has become.

Reviewed by Pierre-Wolf Starring Jason Barbeck, Mandy Bo, Peter Coady Directed by Chris Pickle

Remember in my last entry when I asked where the good horror movies were this year? Well, I think they ground them all up and crammed the resulting mess of a thousand repellent movies into just one: A Serbian Film (review here).

Reviewed by Evil Andy Starring Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic Directed by Srdjan Spasojevic

It’s been five days since we last checked in, and despite watching movies every day, there’s been little to report. Maybe it’s just the exhaustion talking, but this thought just keeps pounding through my Fantasia addled brain - “Where are all the good horror movies at this year?” It’s not like it’s a problem with the festival programming. Fantasia has an impenetrable track record of picking nothing but the best, most innovative, and most extreme horror so what’s going on?

Fantasia 2010 is in full swing, and one of the films that has already screened is the mostly well received documentary Herschell Gordon Lewis - The Godfather of Gore. Dread Central's favorite cartoonist Rick Trembles is also a resident of Montreal and a regular attendee of the annual film fest so of course he had to weigh in with his 2 cents on the film.