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‘The Cycle’ Review: Rewrites True Crime for Diehard Horror Fans! [Fantastic Fest] (opens the original)
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Jordan Downey has made a career in crafting films with incredible practical effects. From the campy Thankskilling to the dour Head Hunter to the disgustingly delightful segment in V/H/S/Beyond, Downey has proved time and time again that he knows how to craft gnarly creatures and nauseating kills through primarily practical means. And his latest film, The Cycle, which had its world premiere at the 2026 edition of Fantastic Fest, is his best work so far, both visually and narratively. The film, wh
‘Compliance’ Review: A Paranoid Found Footage Conspiracy Thriller About the Horrors of the 21st Century Surveillance State [Fantastic Fest] (opens the original)
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In this digital age chock-full of ways to watch and be watched, we all have developed our own strategies to prevent the state from observing us. Or at least we try. We put stickers on our webcams, refuse to give our phones our biometric data, delete Facebook and Instagram, the list goes on. But no matter how badly we try to hide from the unblinking eye of Big Brother, there’s no hiding from it/him/them. This 21st-century paranoia is the centerpiece of Kyle Mangione-Smith’s debut feature film, Co
‘Godmother’ Review: Familiar Horror Delivered In a Twisty, Freaky Package [Fantastic Fest] (opens the original)
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There’s nothing quite like a contemporary horror movie that uses horror tropes so well it almost reinvents them. It’s not an easy thing to do, especially when it feels like there are more movies than ever out there trying to rewrite what we all know about the genre. But every once in a while, a film comes around that does just that—and John Veron’s Godmother has entered that pantheon of films. This desert-set folk horror nightmare may go to familiar places, but Veron and co-writer Alanah Pearce
‘Play House’ Review: Growing Up Has Never Been So Scary [Fantastic Fest] (opens the original)
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Growing up sucks. And growing up in the 21st century sucks more than any of us could have possibly imagined. Capitalism has us in a chokehold. Fascism is exponentially on the rise. And forget about buying a house. To put it bluntly, it’s bleak out there, and Nicolas Curcio captures that in his feature film debut, Play House. But Curcio also knows that in the darkness, there is plenty of light, even if it feels impossible to see. He and his co-writer Kirby Gladstein tap into that complicated expe
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