Fantasia Festival

'Bleed With Me' is a character-driven thriller simplified by backwoods rusticity, reclusive self-convincing, and suspicious hospitality where questions outweigh answers.

John Hsu's 'Detention' pits the terrors of 1960s Taiwanese fascism against a purgatorial world where corpselike guardians uphold oppressive rules.

Cody Calahan’s 'The Oak Room' pulls up a stool and imposes tension through spoken words, showing the importance of good barroom banter.

Elza Kephart’s 'Slaxx' is a skin-tight slasher that turns an inanimate object into something vicious and stylish.

Grant wrote a fun script, which is commendable on its own. She then doubled down and ended up directing a solid bunch of players in quite the enjoyable murder-romp.

Adam Rehmeier’s 'Dinner In America' is worth every course, but gets more delicious the farther it gets into its angsty outcast menu.

Ryan Spindell's horror anthology is everything we miss about 70s and 80s genre content, drenched in gallons and gallons of blood (plus other juices).

Quinn Armstrong’s Survival Skills is a peculiar film. It’s adequately made, to be sure, and there’s something to be said for the 80s safety guide style of yore.