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Fantastic Fest Review: River • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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River starts with what seems like a gimmick. The camera glides through a woodland clearing and slowly reveals the aftermath of a bloody murder. But what the audience hears is the crime itself: the nervous fumblings of horny teens, the discovery of an intruder, and the sound of knife going into flesh. But rather than merely a gimmick, it’s writer/director Joshua Giuliano establishing a central component of his intimate reinvention of the slasher. Memory and perception are tricky and subjective, e
Fantastic Fest Review: Sick • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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Agata Trzebuchowska is prepared to make you feel queasy. The opening moments of Sick, with images of pus and soiled condoms, are intended to elicit an intense visceral response. It’s a feeling of unease she maintains throughout, even if the source of disgust becomes less about physical decay and more cerebral, moral, and emotional. Wading through this increasingly disturbing environment is Maks (Konrad Kakol), a 16-year-old kid dispatched to the family home over the summer to care for his invali
Beware Boiúna Review: Snake With No Bite and No Brain • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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Mike P. Nelson hasn’t only directed soft reboots of established horror franchises, but it’s definitely become his stock-in-trade. First there was his abysmal relaunch of the redneck cannibal Wrong Turn franchise as some kind of half-witted conspiracy flick. He followed this up with his re-envisioning of Silent Night, Deadly Night, which welded together the Christmas slasher with the dark passenger plot from Dexter to at least somewhat interesting results. Now he’s the latest in a long chain of s
Fantastic Fest Review: Play House • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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Everyone has that kids’ TV show that, in hindsight, can only be described as “nightmare fuel.” Growing up in the 1970s in Britain, we had Pipkins, a series about a curiosity shop tended to by a series of puppets including Hartley Hare, a mangy mass of fur with a snide tone who even the puppeteers seemed to loathe. Of course, we all loved those shows as children, but with adults’ eyes we now see them for being deeply disturbing. The central conceit of Play House is about having that realization w
Fantastic Fest Review: Alpha Gang • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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A classic trope of alien invasion films is the interstellar interloper arriving on Earth and finding that they like it. In that way, and that way alone, Alpha Gang is a classic alien invasion film. After that, it’s a textbook example of the quizzical, quixotic, and charming filmmaking stylings of the Zellner brothers, doing for sci-fi what they did for Westerns with Damsel or cryptid flicks in Sasquatch Sunrise. The newly arrived Alpha Six (Riley Keough) is the latest member of the Alpha Gang, u
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