Fantastic Fest 2017 Preview

The show must go on

"...This year's Fantastic Fest undoubtedly starts under a pall. The firestorm over..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Hits Hard

Stephen King adaptations, Arabic cinema, and Three Billboards

"...to nerve-jangling terror, the first wave of films for Fantastic Fest 2017 (Sept. 21-28) announced this morning has it..."

Aug. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...Fantastic Fest is nearly upon us, and the cinematic celebration..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...The Fantastic Fest second wave is here, and bigger than you..."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Announces New Board

Familiar faces make up directors for troubled festival

"...There was an undoubted cloud hanging over Fantastic Fest 2017, so much so that some attendees openly..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Adds Last Two Titles

Follow-up to FF fave The Lure joins list

"...Just when Fantastic Fest made us think they'd locked their lineup, here..."

Sept. 17, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...Austin's primo genre film festival, Fantastic Fest, has just opened fire with its first..."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three

Multiple monsters, sequels, and regulars (and RZA)

"...Few festivals have Fantastic Fest's reputation for familiarity and a certain..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...to Austin this year – or rather, Halloween is. Fantastic Fest has announced that the revamp of the classic..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike

Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator

"...announcement of its third and final wave of films, Fantastic Fest has declared that it will be giving him..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...Bow down, ye unworthies! The final wave of Fantastic Fest films has been unleashed, and not only is..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...Festival films have a life cycle. Some drop by for..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Trouble at Fantastic Fest

Devin Faraci's rehiring and subsequent resignation casts shadow over film fest

"...play out over time. More immediately pressing is its Fantastic Fest film festival, which begins today, Thursday, Sept. 21...."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Snags Arrival

The Handmaiden, Sadako vs. Kayako in wave two

"...Fantastic Fest, the Alamo Drafthouse's celebration of the most bizarre..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...The fifteenth annual Fantastic Fest – the Alamo Drafthouse's celebration of cinema unique..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Triangle of Sadness Star Dolly De Leon Sails into Fantastic Fest

Award-season hopeful is putting Filipino cinema on the map

"...Attendees at Fantastic Fest’s closing night screening tonight got a surprise visitor:..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Applecart

Into the woods with the media satire horror flick

"...Genre mash-ups are in the blood of Fantastic Fest, but Applecart is that rarest of cinematic chimeras:..."

Sept. 27, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Fantastic Fest Is Shaping the Genre Film Scene

Fifteen years in and still fantastic

"...When it comes to booking Fantastic Fest, Creative Director Evrim Ersoy has a simple philosophy:..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Assessing This Year's Tumultuous Fantastic Fest

Notes from the subdued chaos at the Drafthouse

"...For 13 years, Fantastic Fest, the Alamo Drafthouse's signature film festival, has been..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Haunters: The Art of the Scare

Director Jon Schnitzer talks Halloween haunts and the new extreme

"...trauma, like 9/11 and the 2008 financial collapse. Ominously, 2017 is shaping up to be the biggest ever. Jon..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Deeper You Dig

Family-made home movie is a supernatural eye-opener

"...and enthralling when it played at Canada's Fantasia film festival last month, and it's true now that it's playing..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Films to Catch First at Fantastic Fest

The movies you'll want to see before drafting your year-end best-of lists

"...Fantastic Fest is known as a place of discovery, for..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Taking a Night Drive With AJ Bowen

Moons, Lyfts, and bathroom breaks: War stories from the indie trenches

"...In this case, it's unsuspecting driver Russell (Fantastic Fest regular AJ Bowen) who gets drawn into the..."

Oct. 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: V/H/S/99

The found footage anthology goes back to the '90s

"...Immediately following this is “Suicide Bid” from director Johannes..."

Sept. 27, 2022 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Fantastic Fest Review: Border

The pain and joy of being other

"...Border has a close relative, it's probably another recent Fantastic Fest example of genre agnosticism, last year's Thelma; but..."

Sept. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Hellraiser

The Cenobites are back in the third best entry in the franchise

"...So when it was announced that David Bruckner (The..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Films Not to Miss at Fantastic Fest

2018 is the year of the woman

"...Nicole Kidman had a significant 2017 with Big Little Lies, The Beguiled, and The Killing..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Review: Lynch/Oz

How the Wizard of Oz shaped the Blue Velvet director

"...True, his debut feature, The People vs. George Lucas,..."

Sept. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Cam

Sex-positive techno thriller tackles online identity

"...It's a balance that is reminiscent of SXSW award-winning..."

Sept. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Endless

Spring team head on a familiar but reinvented roadtrip

"...kinship to one of the most revered and beloved Fantastic Fest titles, 2016's A Dark Song, as both films..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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