When It Comes To Horror Movies, Love Is The Secret Ingredient
Forget about blood, gore and scares. Love in horror movies is what makes the whole genre function, whether that love is true and honest or misplaced and grotesque.
Read MoreForget about blood, gore and scares. Love in horror movies is what makes the whole genre function, whether that love is true and honest or misplaced and grotesque.
Read MoreSean Byrne's Aussie horror The Loved Ones first attracted attention back in 2009, when it nabbed the Midnight Madness Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and continued to garner good buzz on the festival circuit through 2010... and then 2011. Now it's 2012, and though it seems like festivalgoers have nothing but nice things…
Read MoreThere'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…
Read MoreThe Australian horror film The Loved Ones has been wowing genre-loving audiences since it debuted at festivals last year. It won the Midnight Madness program award (an audience-voted award) at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and has done quite well at other fests, too. There's no US distributor for the film just yet, but…
Read MoreFor the first time, a film has won both the audience award at Sundance and Toronto. Precious, by Lee Daniels, took home TIFF's audience award this weekend. Unlike other festivals, at Toronto the audience award is the top honor, and has previously been won by Hotel Rwanda, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Slumdog Millionaire. Meanwhile,…
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