If your taste in movies runs towards kung-fu, giant monsters, chainsaw murders and other weird cinematic shit – there is no better festival on earth than Fantastic Fest. Fantastic Fest bills itself as a “film festival with the boring parts cut out.” Based on my experience at the first few years of the fest, I would have to say that is dead-on accurate.
Unfortunately, Fantastic Fest badges are already sold out. You can still buy tickets for individual screenings, but you will miss out on all the awesome parties. Start planning ahead for next hear. But don’t feel totally bummed, because this year Fantastic Fest is branching out and bringing some of its greatness to your computer screen.
Fantastic Fest Online is a free online mini-fest presented in conjunction with with B-Side and AMD. The on-line Festival will bring 5 features and 5 short films to your computer screen. The films will be streaming online from September 14-20. It won’t be the same as watching them on the big-screen with a packed house of genre-crazed film fans, but it will at least give everybody an opportunity to get a little taste of Fantastic Fest.
Tim League, direcot of Fantastic Fest and co-founder of the Alamo Drafthouse: “I am personally very excited to be working with these 10 filmmakers, Bside and AMD to provide this unique new experience for genre film enthusiasts across the globe. Utilizing technology to provide simple and free access to great new film talent, Fantastic Fest Online may very well be paving the way to redefining what the term ‘film festival’ means in the future.”
Here’s a little taste of what your internet connection can expect:
Doctor Infierno: A demented gynecologist discovers a cure for all the world’s illnesses and uses it as leverage to become sole dictator of the earth. Jam-packed with monsters, kung fu, battling robots and deviant sexual practices, DOCTOR INFIERNO doesn’t let budget get in the way of executing a mountain of crazy ideas.
I Think We’re Alone Now: This fascinating and deeply disturbing documentary takes you deep into the worlds and obsessions of Kelly McCormick and Jeffery Deane Turner, who have been separately stalking 80s pop icon Tiffany for nearly 20 years.
La Crème: Under the Christmas tree, unemployed loser François Margin mysteriously finds a jar of face cream that once applied, temporarily turns him into the most famous celebrity in France.
Rule of Three: Set in one night in a seedy hotel, cult Novelist Eric Shapiro’s debut feature intertwines two stories of sexual encounters gone horribly awry.
South of Heaven: Two brothers on the wrong side of everyone must face an endless array of torture, terrors and indignities in this darkly comic and visually striking noir.
You can view trailers for all these films at Fantastic Fest Online.
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