But I guess I should talk about Fantasia for a bit, eh?
When I left you last, I had promised a review of Diary and Woman Transformation. Well, as you can see, I only made it to one of those. Diary was early in the day, and honestly, Monday it was pretty crappy here weather-wise. Michelle and I spent most of the day chilling at Evil Andy’s pad, made it out for Woman Transformation (review), then retired relatively early. One film at Fantasia and home before 11? That’s almost unheard of!
Yesterday we made up for it, though. The wife and I headed out early to visit Montreal’s China Town in the hunt for prawn crackers (my wife, being the picky girl she is, wanted one particular kind of course), then back to the pad to chill for a while, only for it dawn on me that the first film I wanted to see (Assmonster) was at 5pm and it was now 4:30. Shit!
After meeting up with Andy and his lady Hazel as well as Paul and his lady Annouk, we joined the massive lineup of people waiting for Sion Sono’s Exte: Hair Extensions (review), which really blew everyone away. Of all the films the man has done (Suicide Club, Strange Circus, Hazard, Noriko’s Dinner Table, etc.), Exte is likely his most accessible film with a straightforward narrative and almost normal characters. Well, not normal, but normal for a Sion Sono movie …
Then we were back in the same theater for Chris Gorak’s urban apocalypse flick Right at Your Door (review), a movie that’s been shocking audiences at film festivals for over a year now. As you can see from my review, it’s not really the kind of film that can be categorized very easily. Indeed it’s only horror in a very real-world way, but it’s a movie everyone should experience for themselves, I think.
Then: the drinking. John Fallon (aka Arrow in the Head) met up with us right after the movie, and we headed out for an hour or so to catch up, bullshit about movies, and, of course, talk about girls. I finally got to meet Todd Brown of Twitch Film, too, which was very cool because I love that damn site.
Today we have the first Mexican horror movie made in many years KM 31, the new Miike headfuck Big Bang Love: A Juvenile, and (FINALLY) David Arquette’s The Tripper so look for even more reviews and coverage tomorrow!