(Welcome to /Response, the companion piece to our /Answers series and a space where /Film readers can chime in and offer their two cents on a particular question.) Earlier this week, the /Film team wrote about our favorite female badasses in the movies. We then opened the floor to our readers: who is your favorite kick-ass lady to appear…
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The buzzed-about festival horror film You're Next finally opens August 23, which makes it a perfect candidate for San Diego Comic-Con. We now know the film not only will screen there, it'll partner up with this year's Masters of the Web panel. There's even a new poster to promote the movie. You're Next, written by Simon Barrett and directed by Adam…
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Almost two years ago, Toronto Film Festival and Fantastic Fest audiences made a lot of noise about the bloody home-invasion thriller You're Next. Now everyone gets to see what those few people were talking about. Director Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S) and screenwriter Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die) have come…
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In 2011, one of the hits of TIFF and Fantastic Fest was Adam Wingard's home invasion thriller You're Next. The film drew raves at just a couple of festival screenings and was snapped up by LionsGate. But rather than releasing the film quickly, the studio held on to it for a while. After appearing once…
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Austin's biggest media festival, SXSW, is coming up in about five weeks, and the film portion of the fest has unveiled a list of films that will play in the midnight and shorts categories. Running March 8-16, the film portion of SXSW has been growing into one of the country's premiere film festivals. The biggest…
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Twenty-six letters, twenty-six directors, twenty-six ways to die. That's the simple premise behind The ABC's of Death, the crazy anthology horror film that is available on demand today, and will be in theaters on March 8. Being as today is the first day the public can see this film (which we reviewed here) twenty-six different…
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Adam Wingard's You're Next is one of those horror movies with potential to change the genre. At least, that was the sentiment coming out of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival where the film premiered. After a heated bidding war, Lionsgate acquired the festival hit and subsequently shut it down, limiting it to just one…
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Another Fantastic Fest is in the books and the festival once again lived up to its name. For eight straight days I slept little, met friends, ate, drank and watched an inhuman amount of crazy genre movies. Now that it’s over, it’s time to not only rank the best films I saw at the festival,…
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Though Fantastic Fest still has three days left packed with movies, the best of the best have been revealed. Monday night, the awards for the best films, actors, writers and directors of the festival were announced in several different categories. Some of the winners are films I've already reviewed and loved. The Audience Award went…
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After an much buzzed about world premiere in Toronto, Adam Wingard's action horror film You're Next had its U.S. Premiere early Sunday morning at Fantastic Fest 2011. In its most basic terms, You're Next is about a family reunion gone horribly wrong when a gang of animal-masked men invade a home and Lionsgate just purchased…
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This is why we always give a lot of attention to the Midnight Madness program assembled each year for the Toronto Film Festival: it generates some of the most fun in the fest, and some of the quickest sales. (If not always the quickest releases: don't bring up the All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.)…
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There's almost too much that's good about Fantastic Fest: experiencing the Alamo Drafthouse for a week straight; the small, friendly, film fan atmosphere; the parties. Oh yeah, then there's the insane films. Every year Fantastic Fest is filled with a ton of wild genre flicks that either you've never heard of yet or already have…
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If you're a fan of genre film, you've had September 22-29 circled on your calendar for months. That's when one of the most fun, depraved and intimate film festivals in the country once again invades Austin, Texas. It's called Fantastic Fest and it features a huge blend of action, horror and sci-fi movies that most…
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