One thing you should all know is that most of the reviews and the daily blog are usually written as soon as Paul and I get home after the last screening of the night (around 1am). We do this because our guilt over being able to attend Fantasia for the full run of the festival is intense as we know full well that all you Dreadites out there are relying on DC for your Fantasia fix. We take our role as pushers very seriously, but the lack of sleep does take its toll…
Speaking of slow burns with explosive endings, yesterday’s screening of Donald Cammel’s White of the Eye provided an extremely rare opportunity to see this incendiary film on the big screen. Mitch spent the better part of a year spelunking the rotten cellars of cinema to find one of only a few watchable prints known to exist. McCannibal’s been a longtime fan of the film, and even though White of the Eye is nearly twenty years old, his deep and abiding love of the film prompted him to turn in a new review of it here.
Other than that, I checked out the Portuguese haunted house/possession film Bad Blood, which turned out to largely be an atmospheric, nice looking disappointment. Paul suggested the rather terse review Bad Blood = Bad Time, but I was feeling slightly more forgiving; check out the review here.
Today’s lineup is looking like fun with screenings of the zombie sci-fi parody Sars Wars, Call of Cthulhu, an anachronistic silent adaptation of Lovecraft (which we reviwed for you here), and Them, which sounds like an intensely nihilistic version of Panic Room. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s coverage!