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Fantastic Fest: 'Fish Story'

If your only exposure to Japanese director Yoshihiro Nakimura's oeuvre has thus far been his work in the classic J-horror vein via Dark Water, this hyper-melodic paeon to obscurantist punk rock and the whims of fate, destiny, and three chords and the truth will enter your skull at 170 BPM and exit your heart doing at least twice that.

10:01AM Thu. Oct. 1, 2009, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: 'Kaifeck Murder'

Ah, the countryside, so serene and peaceful. Yeah, right, unless it's the remote Bavarian village of Kaifeck. Like Tom Waits sang, there's always some killing you gotta do around the farm.

9:56AM Thu. Oct. 1, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: House

Part of the appeal of Japanese cinema to the occidental audience is that it is a little more likely to catch a viewer jaded by Western conventions off guard. And then there's House.

7:13PM Wed. Sep. 30, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Florist, Allegra Krieger

Antone's Nightclub

Theresa Chen Septet
at Monks Jazz Club

Hailee Catalano: By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear at First Light Books

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Fantastic Fest: 'House of the Devil'

There are three theories about how Ti West made House of the Devil evoke the 1980s so successfully. One, time machine. Two, deal with the horned one. Three, astonishing horror director. Considering what a masterful retro supernatural chiller it is, option two seems reasonable.

12:36PM Wed. Sep. 30, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: 'Mandrill'

For anyone that yearns for the days when heroes were cool and lantern-jawed, heroines wore cocktail dresses, and every punch sounded like a baseball bat smacking beef, fear not. Mandrill is here to kick some ass and wear a big fat tie while he's doing it.

1:55PM Tue. Sep. 29, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: 'Cropsey'

Everywhere has its myth to scare kids away from the bad places. Along the border, it's La Llorona near water. In England, it's the boggart on the moors. On Staten Island, it's Cropsey at the abandoned asylum. But this unnerving documentary asks: What if Cropsey is real?

10:19AM Tue. Sep. 29, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: Macabre

For a nation that has mostly remained off the cinematic grid, Indonesia has a history of stripped-down and cheerfully gonzo horror and exploitation. Macabre may put the Southeast Asian nation on some gore hounds' maps.

2:14AM Tue. Sep. 29, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

AFF Announces Lineup

We were so busy cramming for Fantastic Fest last week that we forgot to mention that the Austin Film Festival has released its complete lineup, including the just-announced bookend opening and closing night films Serious Moonlight and Up in the Air.

2:29PM Mon. Sep. 28, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: 'Private Eye'

“My rule is never do anything dangerous,” says private eye Jin-ho (Jeon-Min Hwang), just before he agrees to put aside his regular business of busting cheating housewives in South Korea circa 1910 in order to help a medical student beat a murder rap. Famous last words, that.

2:55AM Mon. Sep. 28, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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